A prominent Chinese intellectual has become the first high-profile public figure to lay the blame for the coronavirus crisis at the feet of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, saying the spread of the deadly virus has “revealed the rotten core of Chinese governance”. As the crisis […]
Botswana held its first auctions for the right to hunt elephants since lifting a ban last year. The country has some 130,000 elephants, the largest population in the world. The government sold seven hunting licences on Friday, with each allowing hunters to kill 10 […]
Antarctica has logged its hottest temperature on record, with an Argentinian research station thermometer reading 18.3C, beating the previous record by 0.8C. The reading, taken at Esperanza on the northern tip of the continent’s peninsula, beats Antarctica’s previous record of 17.5C, set in March 2015. A tweet […]
The Trump administration’s quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers. […]
Dozens of political posters replace outdoor advertising in a protest against the government’s handling of Australia’s bushfire crisis ‘Climate Denial’ by Sydney artist Scott Marsh, who is part of the Bushfire Brandalism art collective which installs political art guerrilla-style in bus stops around Sydney, Brisbane […]
Investigators at the scene of a “koala massacre” at a cleared gum tree plantation in Victoria say the number of animals killed is likely to rise above 40 as they make their way through 10 kilometres of felled timber. A major incident response has been set up […]
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