A video emerged this week of the Greek coastguard shooting into the sea around a migrant boat. It put the life or death decisions of those on the move in the Aegean into sharp relief.

After Turkey removed its border restrictions with Greece on February 29, thousands of people began to make their way across the country to the Greek border. But Greece blocked their entry, and many are now stuck in no-man’s land in freezing conditions.

The crisis comes at a time of heightened tensions on the Greek islands, amid anger at plans to create closed camps for asylum seekers there. Ilay Romain Ors, who is in Greece researching the history of overlapping waves of migration in the Aegean, explains what’s been going on. She writes how the living memory of previous experiences of displacement forms a vivid background to the current arrival of refugees.

Meanwhile, after the UK experienced its wettest February on record, we look at the medieval roots of modern weather forecasts. And two new tools helps show how the slave trade enriched merchants in towns and cities such as Liverpool.

And read analysis of how the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is being driven by Latino voters, moderates and Trump supporters.

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