Last week I witnessed a murder. A male pheasant, a beautiful bird, ventured on the road in my village. I watched in horror as a white van ploughed straight into it. Carnage! English country roads are, sadly, littered with a variety of dead animals from birds to badgers, rabbits and foxes. But the threat goes … Read more
Doctor Botox Olivier Véran, a former French government spokesperson and ex-minister of health, recently announced his next career venture at the Clinique des Champs-Élysées in Paris. For Véran, who was a neurologist before turning to politics, going back to medicine is not all that surprising. What was shocking — and caused some uproar in the … Read more
Socorro, Colombia — In northeast Colombia, police guard warehouses stacked high with confiscated timber with a noble new destiny: transformation into homes for bees beleaguered by pesticides and climate change. The illegally harvested wood is used in the Santander department’s “Timber Returns Home” initiative, building hives since 2021 to house the little pollinators so critical … Read more
