Shortly after winning approval from the California State Senate, a controversial deal that would have allowed the first new offshore oil leases in California state waters in forty years, was rejected by the California State Assembly by a vote of 43-30.
The deal would have revived a lease that had been rejected by the State Lands [...]

On the beaches of Big Major Spot Island, the Bahamas, a family of brown and pink boars and piglets live freely on the sandy white beaches and swim in the tropical surf

“We were in the southern Bahamas to photograph oceanic white-tip sharks,” says the 33-year-old. “Our [...]

The researchers found that the “extent of psychotic reaction” was not related to “the degree of anxiety or congnitive impairtment” in the men Photo: PA
The results appear to confirm a link between psychosis and skunk cannabis, which now accounts for 80 per cent of street seizures of the drug.
Scientists at the Institute [...]

It isn’t easy being a college kid during a recession. Tuition is going up while student services are going down — and that, of course, assumes that you were lucky enough to be accepted to matriculate in the first place. So what is an environmentally minded, financially strapped student to do?
Fortunately, despite the added pressures of [...]

1. Milford Track, New Zealand
Sure, it only lasts four days, but New Zealand’s most famous track is known as “the finest walk in the world” for good reason. Sometimes great things come in small packages.
2. Paine Circuit, Chile
The breathtaking 10-day Paine Circuit just might be the only trail in the world where you can see [...]

A chimpanzee enjoys a piece of ice filled with peanuts and fruit bites in Amersfoort Zoo, The Netherlands

A sea otter tries to cool down near an ice block at Antwerp’s zoo in Belgium

Otters cool off with some specially made fish ice lollies at an aquarium in Southsea, Hampshire

Squirrel monkeys examine the fruit ice blocks in [...]

As a precious metals refiner, Leon Toffel is used to dealing with fine dust, perhaps produced at a bench by a dental technician.
But some years ago, when he received globules of molten metal in the post, he realised there was a new market to be mined.
Toffel’s new client was a retiring crematorium worker.
“We processed it [...]

Infrasound refers to extreme bass waves or vibrations, those with a frequency below the audibility range of the human ear (20 Hz to 22 kHz). Even though these waves can’t be heard by us, they can be felt and have been shown to produce a range of effects in some people including anxiety, extreme sorrow, [...]

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Theodore Robert Bundy, known as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer. He twice escaped from county jails before his final apprehension in February 1978. Before he was executed in 1989, he admitted to murdering 40 young women in almost a dozen states during his four-year reign of terror in the [...]