MikeB
The story is unfolding in France. One of their popular cheeses is Compté. The dairy farmers who produce the milk to make the cheese have been accused of trying to grow too much grass. I presume that more grass means that the cows feed better …
Bacteria 6 km deep inside the earth below the seas have been woken up after being in a state of semi-stasis for 100 million years. It is an extraordinary story reported today in The Times newspaper. These microbes were on the floor of the oceans …
A new, regional, Red List of endangered species has been drawn up by the Mammal Society. It meets the international standards and criteria used to assess threats to wildlife in general. I wonder whether this has been borne out of frustration with the IUCN Red …
Almost 85% of the Kaziranga National Park is underwater. The park is in Assam, India. It is home to the world’s largest remaining population of one-horned rhinos which were hunted to the brink of extinction by the turn-of-the-century. Due to a concerted conservation effort which …
A pristine African forest, the home to some of the world’s most precious and endangered species such as apes and birds is to be opened up for logging. The forest is in Cameroon and China is now Cameroon’s biggest customer with respect to timber. It …
I’m going to put the massive Australian bushfires of 2019 down to global warming. I don’t think they would have happened but for global warming. Global warming is caused by human activity. Australia exports large amount of coal to China. This is a direct cause …
A skinny and rather fragile-looking fox living in Berlin has been unearthed as the mystery shoe thief who has stolen more than 100 shoes from gardens in a wealthy area of the city. One resident of Zehlendorf lost a running shoe and started to patrol …
This is the story of a bear named Papillon, so named after the successful film which features the near impossible escape from a notorious prison island. Papillon is an escapologist and he loves his freedom, as expected. His skills have defied his captors time and …
Even the most talented birdwatcher can have difficulty in identifying individual birds within the same species. Now researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool which can do the job for them. The Times journalist, Tom Knowles, reports that this could have a radical effect on …
