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Wildlife lovers urged to join UK's annual butterfly count
AFP, Published on 30/07/2023
» ABBOTSKERSWELL, UK: Wildlife enthusiasts across Britain are being encouraged to log sightings of butterflies and some moths, as the world's largest annual survey of the increasingly endangered pollinating insects returns.
Ireland's storied countryside gets a lift
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» The west coast of Ireland is famed for its wave-beaten shores and bare, stony mountains, where only a few stunted trees grow in hollows and valleys, bent by harsh storms blowing in from the North Atlantic.
Rubbish-clearing divers rescue 'pearl of Kyrgyzstan'
AFP, Published on 06/07/2023
» ISSYK KUL LAKE, Kyrgyzstan: On the shores of Lake Issyk Kul in mountainous Kyrgyzstan, a group of divers show off their haul for the day — a boat engine, car tyres, bottles, clothes and plastic items.
'Sick of everything': Beijingers fed up with tightening restrictions
AFP, Published on 23/11/2022
» BEIJING: Schools and businesses closed, restaurants empty, and the fear of being locked down at any moment – the Chinese capital is a cauldron of dread and fatigue as Covid curbs tighten nearly three years into the pandemic.
Hitler marionette's strange journey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/07/2022
» The puppet stands 51 centimetres tall, carved out of wood and hand-painted, its uniform tattered and torn. But for all it has endured over more than 80 years -- buried in a backyard in Belgium at the outset of World War II; dug up after the war and taken on a nine-day cross-Atlantic journey; stored and almost forgotten in an attic in Oakland, California -- it remains, with its black toothbrush moustache and right arm raised in a Nazi salute, immediately and chillingly recognisable.
UK overlooks crisis to celebrate queen's jubilee
AFP, Published on 01/06/2022
» LONDON: Britons prepared Wednesday to mark a record-breaking 70 years on the throne for Queen Elizabeth II, with four days of festivities offering temporary respite from an inflationary crisis and doubts over the monarchy's future.
Coughing up for justice
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/04/2022
» Last January, Carla Davis was on LinkedIn when she saw an intriguing post: "Identify the Victim of 1978 Tennessee Murder."
Ski town rallies after resort closes
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/02/2022
» Jim Lyall briskly skied up Mount Ascutney, eagerly pointing out the view. We were skinning up a ski area in southern Vermont, but the chairlifts are long gone. At the top of the mountain, we arrived at an abandoned ski patrol cabin and lift station. A cold breeze whipped through the deserted structures. It had a ghostly, post-apocalyptic feel.
India bids farewell to 'supermum' tiger Collarwali
AFP, Published on 20/01/2022
» PENCH TIGER RESERVE (INDIA) - Indian animal lovers are in mourning over the sudden passing of a nationally famous tigress credited with repopulating a forest redoubt for her endangered kin.
Hunt on for monarch butterfly eggs in the gardens of Canada
AFP, Published on 28/08/2021
» SAINT-HYACINTHE (CANADA) - When Canadian conservation enthusiasts head out to find monarch eggs, it's always with a magnifying glass and a notebook. They are volunteers taking part in a summer census of the iconic, endangered butterflies.