Rivers were the centerpiece of ancient civilization

The Indigo botanical stubbornly draws in all of the nutrients in the soil around it as it matures, making it difficult to grow as it eventually saps the soil of nutrients.

Tatcha's natural Japanese Indigo comes from a family-run farm on the banks of the Yoshino River, which floods annually ...

• An agriculture student-turned-microbiologist, Selman Waksman, tested 10,000 soil samples over the years.
• In 1943, he identified streptomycin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
• Drug companies caught on to it, and commissioned pilots, explorers, an...

Focusing on specific details in a complex system while ignoring the amount of detail contained within the system may at first show a benefit. However, it can create a massive collapse in the long-run.

In the late 18th century, the German government wanted to grow "scientific forests" t...