At least 227 land and environmental defenders were murdered in 2020, according to a new report, ‘Last Line of Defence’, produced by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness. This is the highest […]
This report includes information from previous articles that has been rejigged and updated. Last update 7/9/2021. A report delivered to the US President, Joe Biden, about the possible origins of the Covid-19 […]
Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, according to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean […]
This is an expanded version of my article in The Irish Times A high court judge in Malaysia has overturned the decision made by the coroner in the inquest into the death […]
An international team of researchers are predicting a massive decline in the ranges of Africa’s great apes by 2050 because of the impacts of climate change, land-use changes, and human population growth. […]
This article has been updated. Latest update: 13/8/2021. Pressure is mounting for a full, independent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2. That pressure is coming from scientists around the world and individual […]
This article has been updated. Latest update: 5/6/2021. The report of the ‘Joint WHO-China Study’ of the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 holds no surprises. Its main messages – that a lab origin […]
It’s been seven years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board and the next of kin say they are no closer to knowing what happened to the plane […]
Conversations from JLF 2021, Part 1 This year’s virtual Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) had none of the vibrant hustle and bustle of the previous on-site editions, but, over ten days, there were more […]
The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has released ten rehabilitated orangutans into the wild. They are the first releases the BOSF has been able to carry out since the Covid-19 pandemic began. […]
The on-site Jaipur Literature Festival had to be cancelled this year because of Covid-19, but the 14th JLF is going ahead online from today (Friday) until February 28, with a stellar virtual […]
This article has been updated. Latest update 18/9/2021. The Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca-Oxford, and Moderna vaccines are being administered under emergency use authorisations in the UK. The UK regulator has also approved use of […]
This is an expanded version of my article in The Irish Times. Update: the application for revision of the verdict was filed on February 5. The parents of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin […]
The world’s rarest and most threatened great ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan, is in greater danger of becoming extinct than conservationists feared, a group of researchers warn in a new report. The […]
Malaysian coroner Maimoonah Aid has ruled that no third party was involved in the death of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin. She said it was “more probable than not” that Nóra died by […]
Ths is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Latest update 9/1/2021. Cognitive dysfunction and memory loss affect young Long Covid sufferers as much as those aged seventy and above, […]
This is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Latest update: 29/1/2021. The FDA in the US has issued emergency use authorisations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech […]
This article has been updated. Latest update: 11/12/2020. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is now being given to members of the public in the UK under emergency use authorisation. The elderly are being prioritised. […]
Nóra’s parents said they heard muffled sounds in their chalet the night Nóra disappeared. Sebastien Quoirin said Nóra lacked the stamina and skills to survive alone in the jungle for seven days. […]
