One of Indonesia’s most ardent rain forest protection activists is in what may seem an unlikely position: Spearheading a project…
Month: June 2011
Living the (Green) Electric Scooter Dream
Ever since my father bought our family a grass-green Puch moped when I was 16, and it was stolen on…
Biggest Whale Shark “Swarm” Found
You could call it a whale of a “swarm”—the biggest observed gathering of whale sharks was spotted off the coast…
Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes
A gene therapy treatment in monkeys may pave the way to curing the blind. Treating blindness has always been an…
Hybrid Cuban-American Crocodiles on the Rise
There’s a new Cuban crisis—the island country’s rare crocodile is being loved to death by its American cousin, a new…
Tiny Hairs Help Bats Fly
Treating bats with a depilatory cream has lead to the discovery that the microscopic hairs on their wings are crucial…
Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed ‘can be reversed’
An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the…
Nepal marks becoming land mine-free
A huge controlled explosion marked the end of Nepal’s deadly land mine areas and the beginning of it as Asia’s…
Rescuing children from a trash dump
During a visit to Argentina 11 years ago, Elena Durón Miranda was horrified to see children as young as 3…
Arabian “Unicorn” Leaps Out of Near Extinction
It’s no fantasy—the so-called Arabian unicorn is alive and well in Middle Eastern deserts, conservationists have announced. A frequent muse…