The Fens of eastern England, a low-lying, extremely flat landscape dominated by agricultural fields, was once a vast woodland filled with huge yew trees, according to new research. Scientists have ...
In January 1870, a challenge was issued: a man called John Hampden bet any scientist £500 that they couldn’t prove the Earth ...
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has warned that Britain must not "surrender the Fens" to the sea. Friends of the Earth has warned that more than 90% of homes in Mr Tice's Boston and Skegness ...
Scientists from the University of Cambridge studied hundreds of tree trunks, dug up by Fenland farmers while ploughing their fields. The team found that most of the ancient wood came from yew trees ...
Cross-section of a subfossil yew trunk after surface preparation. The disc contains 380 tree-rings, i.e the tree was at least 380 years old when it died. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...
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