This week, we learned …
… parents’ views on gifted education vary by ethnicity. Read of the week!

Photograph of Dutch students by Luca Locatelli, National Geographic
… crops evolved 10,000 years earlier than we thought.

Photograph of an Ethiopian wheat farmer by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
… a newly identified orangutan species is the rarest ape on Earth.

Photograph of a Tapanuli orangutan by Tim Laman, National Geographic
How can kids help save orangutans?
… new NASA maps are bad news for Greenland.

Illustration by Alejandro Tumas, National Geographic
Greenland’s retreating glaciers are causing the island to shrink.
… a third of Earth’s animals are vanishing as roads spread through forests.

Photograph of a road in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, by Ivan Kashinsky, National Geographic
What are the contributing factors considered when building a road through the forest?
… “plyscrapers” are taking wooden buildings to new heights.

Illustration by Jason Treat, National Geographic
How did steel skyscrapers come to define the “Chicago Style”?
… women are increasingly claiming a central role in farming.

Photograph of a Wisconsin farmer by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
Can you successfully farm our “Top Crop”?
… how drought, famine, and climate change influenced the fate of European colonies in the Americas.

Illustration by Adrian Niu, National Geographic
What happened to the earliest English colonies in North America?
… why big, boring bureaucracy is essential for restoring wetlands.

Photograph by Oleg Alexandrov, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
How can plants actually hinder wetland restoration?
… if you want to evaluate the cost of Brexit, consider the pineapple.

Photograph of a pineapple vendor in Nigeria by Robin Hammond, National Geographic