Against the odds, a tiny wildlife retreat has won the day in a battle with developers. It is a sign that attitudes may finally be changing for the better, says Graham Lawton Environment | Comment 27 May 2020 By Graham Lawton Les Gibbon/Alamy AS LOCKDOWNS gradually ease across the world, I find myself in a…
By Leah Crane Hubble Space Telescope image of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxyNASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA A small galaxy called Sagittarius has been shaping the Milky Way for billions of years. Every time it has passed close to our galaxy, it has caused huge bursts of star formation that may even be…
eNCA, where he said there was no good reason for children not to return to school if there were health protocols - such as hand sanitisation and social distancing - in place to curb the spread of the virus. He added scientific evidence showed children seemed to be infected at a much lower rate than adults…
One Small Act of Kindness is one of the many charities on the frontlines, assisting the most vulnerable during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. The organisation, in partnership with Doorway to Dignity, has dedicated its efforts to taking care of homeless men in Randburg, Johannesburg.One Small Act of Kindness founder Kelly-Ann van der Meer told News24…
When Jyri Engestrom, a 42-year-old entrepreneur who runs a small early stage venture fund in San Francisco, California, read an article in the Guardian newspaper about an Italian village that tested its entire community for the novel coronavirus and was reportedly able to eradicate the virus by doing so, he was inspired.Engestrom wanted to do the…
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
Your 30s and 40s are what some would consider the best years of your life. You’re no longer “figuring it out,” but you aren’t “old” by society’s ageist standards either. It should be a sweet spot—right? But despite the illusion of stability and security, it’s also common for anxiety and self-doubt to worsen during your
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse