Bats carrying viruses that can lead to an AIDS-like disease threaten to wipe out Australia’s koala population Bats are acting as flying carriers for several viruses that are deadly to koalas The virus can trigger the koala retrovirus called KoRV, which can lead to cancer Scientists believe this is a greater threat to the koala … Read more
Professor Anthony Costello says Britain faces up to 10 waves of the coronavirus before the population develops herd immunity Britain could suffer 40,000 coronavirus deaths in the first wave of the outbreak, a leading expert has warned – as he claimed the UK may be hit by up to ten bouts of the killer infection before … Read more
Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found that half of people have the disease without realising. They also discovered that 1,600 people have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak. Of these cases, there were only seven deaths, indicating a fatality rate of just 0.004 per cent, … Read more
A surging bison population in Yellowstone National Park is doing serious and steady damage to the park’s biological diversity. A team of researchers from Oregon State University, Corvallis studied the animal’s effects on the park’s landscape, focusing primarily on the Lamar Valley, an area on the park’s eastern edge. The team analyzed data spanning more … Read more
A wet winter has seen Britain’s otter population flourish and they are raiding people’s gardens and eating their fish Otters were a common sight across the United Kingdom back in the 1950s However, their numbers dwindled around 1970–80 due to pesticide usage Now these chemicals are banned and otters are protected, numbers are rising Winter rainfall … Read more
Three billion people – more than a third of the world’s 2.6billion population – are now thought to be under some kind of coronavirus lockdown in an attempt to control the spread of the disease. Cases of the highly-infectious virus have now been reported on every continent except Antarctica and in virtually every country as … Read more
Coronavirus could have infected HALF of the British population and been spreading here since January say Oxford University experts as they challenge ‘unquestioning acceptance’ of official data Half of the UK could be infected with coronavirus, say Oxford experts Public in Kent, Cambridge and Oxford could be tested to support new theory Disease may have … Read more
Coronavirus could have infected HALF of the British population and been spreading here since January say Oxford University experts as they challenge ‘unquestioning acceptance’ of official data Half of the UK could be infected with coronavirus, say Oxford experts Public in Kent, Cambridge and Oxford could be tested to support new theory Disease may have … Read more
India announces coronavirus lockdown for its entire 1.3 BILLION population from midnight Indian PM Narendra Modi announced a ‘total ban on venturing out of you homes’ He said India had to face a 21-day health lockdown or be set back by 21 years India has reported 482 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths … Read more
After reaching a point of near extinction, Mexican gray wolf populations in the US have begun to rebound, growing 24 percent in 2019. According to new census information from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the number of Mexican gray wolves in the US rose to 163 in 2019, from 131 in 2018. The increase … Read more