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Never one to stay out of the limelight for long, multi-millionaire property landlord Fergus Wilson is raising people’s hackles again. He and his wife Judith acquired national fame for having created one of the country’s most successful buy-to-let empires, reaching 900 properties and worth at its peak an estimated £250m....
Plans for a visitors centre and cafe at a new arboretum in Soham have been described as “terrific” by councillors. The proposals to convert and extend a former engineering workshop to create the new centre off Eye Hill Drove have been approved by East Cambridgeshire District Council. How the visitors...
During the pandemic, the FDA relaxed its standards for the production of hand sanitizers, resulting in the use of some dangerous ingredients like benzene. (Photo: Trinity Care Foundation, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This week, Living on Earth Contributor Peter Dykstra joins host Aynsley O’Neill to discuss how a batch of...
The cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. (Image: copyright Kate Beaton. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly.) The Athabasca oil sands in Alberta; Canada ranks as one of the world’s most destructive crude oil operations. People laboring in the Athabasca oil sands often live in austere work camps, with...
Deforestation in Brazil from palm oil development. (Photo: Miguel Pinheiro, CIFOR, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The European Union has enacted legislation aimed at reducing global deforestation with a ban on the sale of products made from cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, and wood, produced on land deforested after 2020....
BOSTON — Following years of a piecemeal approach to PFAS contamination and more than a year after a task force unanimously recommended 30 steps to deal with the problem, environmental groups, consumer advocates, firefighters and the Attorney General’s Office came before the Public Health Committee this week to push for...
A Waved Albatross pair (Photo: Wildlife Travel, CC) Raising a chick is no small feat for Albatrosses and both parents play a vital role. BirdNote®’s Wenfei Tong describes the strong and unique bonds that help albatrosses raise their young. Transcript DOERING: The queerness in nature extends to birds, too. Wenfei...
An exciting family-friendly art trail showcasing sculptures will be coming to a town next summer. ‘Shaun the Sheep in the Heart of Kent’ will bring colour to parks, river paths and other parts of of Maidstone next summer. The first finished sculpture, designed by artist Jill Busby It follows on...
BOSTON—Following years of a piecemeal approach to PFAS contamination and more than a year after a task force unanimously recommended 30 steps to deal with the problem, environmental groups, consumer advocates, firefighters and the attorney general’s office paraded before the Public Health Committee on Wednesday to support legislation that would...
White mulberry trees have been known to change sex, from male (those that produce pollen) to female (those that produce fruit) and vice versa. They also sometimes produce fruit and pollen from the same plant. (Photo: Luis Fernández García L. Fdez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.1 ES) The academic discipline...
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