Travel stocks hit by holiday chaos: £1.5bn wiped off

Travel stocks hammered by holiday chaos: £1.5bn wiped off by second wave fears Investors took flight from airlines and tour operators after the Government removed Spain from the quarantine-free list  Thousands of holidaymakers cancelled trips to Spain as well as countries such as France and Germany amid concerns they could be next  By Tom Witherow … Read more

British butterflies are at risk of being wiped out by farming as conservation measures fail

British butterflies are at risk of being wiped out by intensive farming as conservation measures are failing to protect some of the country’s rarest species, a study found.  Species under threat include Duke of Burgundy, the Dingy skipper and the High Brown Fritillary, researchers have warned. Conservation efforts around the margins of agriculture are not … Read more

Shellfish could be wiped out as Arctic Ocean acidifies due to climate change, scientists fear 

Shellfish could be wiped out as Arctic Ocean acidifies due to climate change, scientists fear Ocean expected to absorb more carbon dioxide than expected in next 80 years Increasing acidity of water could wipe out organisms like shellfish and urchins  Acid can dissolve their calcified skeletons and shells and could affect food chain By Daily … Read more

Toby Anstis confirms he battled coronavirus after being ‘wiped out’ by illness

Toby Anstis has revealed he previously battled coronavirus after being ‘wiped out’ by the illness. The Heart radio presenter, 49, took to Twitter on Wednesday where he confirmed he had COVID-19 after taking an antibody test which was positive. He told of his ‘relief’ of finally getting an answer after falling ill earlier this year, … Read more

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs created a network of hot waterways

Rock samples taken from under the Chicxulub crater left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid 66 million years ago could hold the key to the origin of life on Earth. A team of researchers found that the impact of the city-sized space rock produced a network of warm waterways under the crater, which is in the Yucatán Peninsula … Read more

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs impacted the Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at ‘the deadliest possible angle’, researchers have concluded. The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico‘s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximising the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases. The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was … Read more

Coronavirus could be completely wiped out in Britain by September 30

Coronavirus pandemic could be over in the UK by September 30: Scientific model predicts virus will continue its steady decline with NO second wave Singapore University of Technology plotted data from the Covid-19 pandemic  United States will extinguish the infection by November 11, the team discovered The model predicts the trajectory of the spread of … Read more

Honeybees are being wiped out by disease that causes chronic paralysis

Honey bees in the UK are increasingly suffering at the hands of a deadly viral disease that is sweeping England and Wales, according to a new study. British scientists found colonies of the honey bee that are infected with ‘chronic bee paralysis’ rose nearly 200-fold between 2007 and 2017. Whole colonies are frequently lost to … Read more

Andy Lee: My TV blunder so bad it was wiped from Channel Seven’s archives

‘It was terrible’: Comedian Andy Lee reflects on his first big career blunder – which was so bad that Channel Seven deleted the master tapes By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:35 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 05:38 BST, 28 April 2020 Comedians Andy Lee and Hamish Blake are two of the … Read more