House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo As a majority of states contend with rising…
Month: June 2020
Should we cull one species to save another?
Gough Island is about as remote a fragment of land as it is possible to find…
France’s oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down
France’s oldest nuclear power plant will shut down on Tuesday after four decades in operation, to…
‘Shell shock’: Kangaroo Island struggles to recover amid bushfire grief and Covid-19
Six months after the catastrophic bushfires that scorched half of Kangaroo Island, the land around Andrew…
Greta Thunberg hits out at leaders who use her fame to ‘look good’
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has hit out at world leaders for wanting to be pictured with…
Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda
Sen. Chuck Grassley. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. Chuck Grassley laid blame on Fox News —…
Josh Hawley warns Trump on Supreme Court disappointments
President Donald Trump counts reshaping the judiciary as one of his greatest accomplishments. But some top…
‘Either we change or we die’: the radical farming project in the Amazon
The cumaru trees could have been planted elsewhere in this Amazon reserve, where they had better…
Country diary: an old quarry is now a mine of natural treasure
Here is a local landmark few would want: above a beautiful stone village, a cement works,…
Spring sunshine brings butterfly abundance to fill ‘that hole in our soul’
Meadow browns are jinking along lanes, small tortoiseshells are unusually abundant on bramble flowers and purple…