Beneath the Surface
The greatest animal migrations on Earth are collapsing in rivers nobody's watching. 81% gone since 1970. We haven't finished counting what we're losing.
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The greatest animal migrations on Earth are collapsing in rivers nobody's watching. 81% gone since 1970. We haven't finished counting what we're losing.
Researchers at the University of Konstanz discovered friction without contact — magnets that resist each other without touching. The friction peaks not at closest approach, but at intermediate distances where competing demands are strongest. A 300-year-old law breaks. So does a geopolitical one.
In one week, targeted strikes became a regional conflict with great-power involvement and a global economic crisis. Each step made sense to someone. That's the problem.