Wet markets selling live animals including bats, dogs and snakes are continuing to operate across South-East Asia, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Shocking pictures and videos show the animals crammed into tiny cages at markets in countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and China, where the outbreak is believed to have first emerged. One … Read more
Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more
When will wet markets be banned across the globe? As this photo from Indonesia shows, it’s not just China. EVGENY LEBEDEV issues a call for action By Evgeny Lebedev For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:31 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 05:28 BST, 26 April 2020 Since I have begun to write on the … Read more
‘I learned how to just be and follow the rhythm of nature,’ Audun Amundsen says, reflecting on his life off-grid in the jungle with the Mentawai tribe, where there was little on the daily agenda other than making arrows or canoes and hunting for food such as monkeys, bats or shrimp. The Norwegian engineer and … Read more