This week, we learned …
… climate change skeptics are more likely to behave in eco-friendly ways than those who are highly concerned about the issue. Yikes. Read of the week!

Illustration by Tom Zeller, Jr., National Geographic
Get some ideas for going green yourself.
… how to design the most successful educational computer game of all time.

Follow the Oregon Trail with our successful educational map.
… Phoenicia never existed.

Map by Yom, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
Learn more about these enigmatic “First Rulers of the Mediterranean.”
… how to count birds.

Can we count you in during the Year of the Bird?
… we wish we could tune into this new series “like Sesame Street, but in Inuktitut.”
Where can you find Inuktitut speakers?
… Egypt has lost the Nile.

How is Ethiopia’s dam-building impacting Egypt?
… a wind farm in rural Jordan is distributing electric and social power.

Photograph by Joe McNally, National Geographic
Use our activity to hold your own debate among wind-energy stakeholders.
… the Milky Way has been invaded.

Photograph by ESA/Gaia/DPAC
Where is the invasion taking place?
… an Antarctic island is finally rat-free.

Photograph by Maria Stenzel, National Geographic
What does a Nat Geo expert think of South Georgia Island?
… a water filter inspired by Alan Turing passed its first test.

… globalization has not reduced inequality.
