F&O this Week: From Homeland to Holmes, and why Australia mourns
Franklin Expedition: “Heart and soul” of HMS Erebus revived By F&O staff Canada’s government has released images of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from Britain’s legendary Franklin Expedition, found in Nunavut territory in September. Erebus was named after the Greek god of darkness, whose sire is Chaos. (You might have thought the name would give them pause.) Climate change: food shortages, mass extinctions, flooding. By Deborah Jones Climate change caused by humans will result in food shortages, mass extinctions and flooding, warns the world body of climate experts in its most comprehensive report yet, signed in Bonn on November 2,