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If there’s one thing they don’t need, it’s more cowbells. Edith and Robert Albin’s tiny organic farm in the Swiss hamlet of Tersnaus is picture-postcard idyllic, with bell-bedecked cows roaming the Alps during the warmer months, then wintering in airy stalls. It’s a meat- and cheese-eater’s dream: Calm and happy livestock that spend their lives […]
The leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency insisted he cares about athletes but admonished them nonetheless during a fierce, sometimes-personal defence of the decision to bring Russia's suspended drug-fighting operation back online. "My question to athletes is: What, in practice, is the alternative action to all the statements you have made?" WADA president Craig Reedie […]
The boom in the Pacific Ocean, seen here off San Francisco, is designed to catch plastic (Image: THE OCEAN CLEANUP) Q: How large is the boom that has recently been placed in the Pacific Ocean to pick up excess plastic? And, dare I ask, is it made of plastic? Chris Schuman, Reading, Berkshire A: The […]
(credit: Reyner Media / Flickr) On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that the state’s utilities move to 100-percent zero-emission electricity generation by 2045. Brown also issued an executive order today requiring the state to become carbon neutral by 2045, that is, mandating that the state remove as much greenhouse gas from […]
Hotel rooms are supposed to be cleaned every day but worrying new statistics show that hygiene – even in expensive hotels and Airbnbs – can sometimes be questionable. A survey of 1,000 people has revealed the many disgusting things hotel and Airbnb guests have found in their rooms. Nasties range from blood and semen to […]
RT’s Keiser Report looks into media reports hailing the end of austerity in Greece, contradicted by the harsh reality of decades of painful austerity still ahead. Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis posted a sobering tweet, pointing out that his country had “entered 32 years of permanent harsh austerity while the world media celebrated the […]
UN human rights experts have slammed the Japanese government for the alleged exploitation of “tens of thousands” of workers, as well as migrants and the homeless, said to be cleaning up the mangled Fukushima nuclear plant. In a three-way joint statement, released Thursday via the United Nations, the human rights experts detailed their deep concern […]
Terry Grady is the founder of a new group called Saskatoon Cares, modelled after similar needle exchange outreach services in other cities.
Lou Lamoriello moved quickly to shake up the New York Islanders by firing general manager Garth Snow and coach Doug Weight and naming himself the team's new GM just two weeks after taking over as president of hockey operations. Lamoriello announced the moves Tuesday that begin to reshape the organization in his image, two weeks […]
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