Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting

The southern African nation, which is home to 130,000 elephants — or around one third of the continent’s population — imposed the ban in 2014 to deter poaching. But while the elephants are popular with wildlife-loving tourists, locals have complained that they damage crops and […]

First US state legalizes composting of human bodies

  Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Tuesday legalizing human composting. The bill will go into effect in May next year. Currently in Washington bodies can either be cremated or buried. The process of recomposition provides a third option that speeds up the process of […]