Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell turns to an aide as the Senate Rules Committee holds a…
Month: April 2021
Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds
The climate crisis is already eating into the output of the world’s agricultural systems, with productivity…
Republicans seek DOJ briefing on claims of ‘suspicious’ pre-Jan. 6 Capitol tours
Rep. Rodney Davis and other GOP lawmakers are asking the Capitol Police and Justice Department to…
‘It’s helped lessen the feeling of doom’: readers’ photos of their local wildlife
Living with the coronavirus pandemic has meant many of us can’t travel far, with one benefit…
Whale watching in Mexico – in pictures
A grey whale at Ojo de Liebre lagoon in Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur state in…
Net gains: how India trawlers’ plastic catch is helping to rebuild roads
For years, plastic caught by fishing communities on the Kollam coast in India’s southern state of…
Country diary: the annual deer count has us on the hills before dawn
The skylarks rose with the sun over the Quantocks, pouring their song into the north wind…
Should we determine species through DNA? (part two) – podcast
In part two of The Age of Extinction takeover of Science Weekly, Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe…
Morrison government guilty of ‘absolute failure’ in electric vehicles policy
Independent senator Rex Patrick has taken a swipe at the federal government for its “absolute failure”…