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'Punk wellness': China's stressed youth mix traditional medicine and cocktails
AFP, Published on 13/02/2026
» SHANGHAI — In a softly lit Shanghai bar, graduate student Helen Zhao stretched out both wrists to have her pulse taken -- the first step to ordering the house special, a bespoke "health" cocktail based on traditional Chinese medicine.
New Zealand approves medicinal use of 'magic mushrooms'
AFP, Published on 18/06/2025
» WELLINGTON - New Zealand on Wednesday approved the medicinal use of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound notably found in so-called "magic mushrooms".
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
AFP, Published on 14/03/2025
» TāPLEJUNG — Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.
Vaquitas still exist, but barely: sea 'panda' survey
AFP, Published on 08/06/2023
» MEXICO CITY - The vaquita, a small porpoise on the verge of extinction, is still hanging in there, said scientists Wednesday who had spotted about a dozen specimens of Mexico's "panda of the sea" on an expedition in May.
Drugs from the deep: scientists explore ocean frontiers
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» PARIS - Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a "mud missile" -- all tools used by scientists to scour the world's oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic.
Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» MANOKO (PERU) - They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
'So good to be home:' Griner speaks out after release from Russia
AFP, Published on 17/12/2022
» WASHINGTON - US basketball star Brittney Griner said Friday in her first remarks since being released from a Russian prison that it was "so good to be home" and vowed to play again for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury.
Bangkok becoming a weed Wild West
AFP, Published on 15/12/2022
» From sleek boutiques to rickety stalls, hundreds of cannabis dispensaries have sprouted across Bangkok since decriminalisation, but in a country once infamous for tough drug laws, vendors are asking: can the high times last?
Indigenous film bringing cross-border Amazon tribes together
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» SAN MARTIN DE AMACAYACU (COLOMBIA) - In Colombia's Amazon jungle, indigenous people of different nations, ethnicities and languages have come together to find a single voice in cinema to tell their own stories, rather than let outsiders do it.
Russia rejects US basketballer's appeal of 'traumatic' sentence
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» KRASNOGORSK (RUSSIA) - A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from US basketball star Brittney Griner of her nine-year prison term on drug charges, ignoring her plea for the "traumatic" sentence to be reduced.