The Trump administration is diligently weakening US environment protections even amid a global pandemic, continuing its…
Day: May 11, 2020
‘Chaotic and crazy’: meat plants around the world struggle to contain Covid-19 outbreaks
Outbreaks of Covid-19 at slaughterhouses are occurring in a number of countries around the world, in…
Riverside encounter with an otter family: Country diary, 14 May 1945
CumberlandAn ever lengthening line of bubbles beading the stale, still backwater where a tributary enters the…
Cargo ship sailors press-ganged into keeping the world’s trade afloat
Thomas Stapley-Bunten was due to finish his contract aboard a huge cargo ship carrying liquid natural…
Country diary: where the wildflowers grow weird and wonderful
P lanted across a large area with hardly any paths, the wild and the cultivated flow…
Alexander to remotely chair coronavirus hearing after staffer tests positive for virus
Sen. Lamar Alexander. | Mario Tama/Getty Images Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander will remotely lead…