National Geographic (February 2022)

127 pages. Volume 241, number 2. Features: *A family's Valor: With the timeless look of tintypes to bind the past and present, a photography pays tribute to the armed forces members in his family *On the trails of Julius Caesar: We might imagine meeting the Roman emperor face-to-face but how do we know what he actually looked like? *Scat scan discovery: Scientists could identify beetle fossils as a new species because they were preserved s well in 230-million-year-old . . . feces *A shrew's brain mulch from coffee? *Water garden: The Mekong River is home to rafts of water lilies-and, increasingly plastic pollution. The National Geographic Society is helping fund research on the issue *The conflict zone: Ugandan villagers' clashes with chimps raise tricky questions about conservation and coexistence *Notre Dome after the fire: The cathedral was still smoldering in April 2019 as French leaders vowed to rebuild it-by 2024. As restoration proceeds, unrivaled access allowed National Geographic to witness the efforts *The adapters: Cichlids in Lake Tanganyika could be poster fish for diversity, exhibiting many sizes, colors, and behaviors *A climb for history: An all-Nepali team prevails on the world's second highest mountain *Crops and climate: The toll that climate change takes on food crops deserves a microscopically close look *Sudan's reckoning: A new generation discovers a proud past and faces an unsure future.