This article has been updated. The health problems faced by Long Covid sufferers need to be addressed urgently, say six women in Britain who have just published an open letter drawing attention […]
This article has been updated with the news that AstraZeneca has resumed trials of AZD1222 and with information about the pausing of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trial. A rejigged, updated version of […]
Conservationists around the world are today (Wednesday) joining forces to mark International Orangutan Day and raise awareness about the critically endangered primate whose DNA is 97 percent the same as humans. The […]
One year ago – on August 13 – the body of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin was found in a Malaysian jungle about two kilometres from the Dusun resort where she had been […]
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019, according to a new annual report, ‘Defending Tomorrow’, produced by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness. About 40% of those killed […]
This article has been updated to include information about the two reports published by exiled scientist Li-Meng Yan et al. (Updates at the end of the article.) Six months on from the […]
This article has been updated. (Updates at the end of the article.) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed the drug hydroxychloroquine from its Solidarity trial, in which possible treatments for Covid-19 […]
The audio digest of “Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases” is now online:
Audio digest of this article: See updates (at the end of this article) about the WHO resuming its hydroxychloroquine trial and three of the authors of the controversial article about hydroxychloroquine published […]
New information has been added to this article (updates at the end), but the statistics are as of the date of publication. Up-to-date statistics can be found here. At 18/4/2020 the number […]
Next of kin of passengers and crew who were on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it disappeared six years ago gathered at a remembrance event today in Putrajaya, south of Kuala […]
A Bornean orangutan named Alba, who is believed to be the only albino orangutan alive in the world, is thriving in the rainforest where she was released more than a year ago. […]
This article has been updated. There are reports that there will be a long-term delay in construction of the Batang Toru power plant. Conservationists say a 510-megawatt hydropower plant that is being […]
A judge in the United States has denied a habeas corpus application made on behalf of an elephant in the Bronz Zoo, but the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) says it is “deeply […]
The Indian multinational conglomerate Adani, which is set to build the biggest coal mine in Australia, was yesterday (Thursday) fined AUD20,000 after pleading guilty to providing false or misleading information to the […]
The woman who is cited as the defendant in the civil lawsuit brought by the parents of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin, who disappeared and died in the Malaysian jungle last August, says that, […]
The world’s climate crisis was a central theme at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, with several sessions focusing on the national, regional, and global effects of the Earth’s warming. The internationally acclaimed […]
The 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, which will take place from January 23 to 27 in the Pink City’s Diggi Palace, will host more than three hundred authors, thinkers, politicians, […]
This article has been updated to include the call by two French deputies for the case to be reopened. The parents of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin, who disappeared from a holiday resort […]
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) has put forward arguments for a third time in the Bronx Supreme Court in the United States in support of the right to liberty of an elephant […]
