3.6-million-year-old footprint at risk of being lost forever
Also: Top 10 US beaches and women who made aviation history View in Browser 05.25.24 In travel news this week: why climate change might make airplane turbulence worse, the best beaches in the United States just in time for Memorial Day and the record-breaking US pilot whose achievement was kept a secret for years. By Maureen O'Hare 🌍 Our changing world The Laetoli footprint cast at the Olduvai Gorge Museum in Tanzania. (Richard Bates/British Council Cultural Protection Fund) The Laetoli footprints on the southern edge of Tanzania's Serengeti Plains are the oldest known footprints of our earliest human ancestors and the first evidence of an upright walking hominid. However, they're now at risk of being destroyed because of erosion from increasing storms and rainfall. The site is one of 22 new projects to be funded by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund , which protects cultural heritage at risk fro...