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The Beckley Retreat: a trip of a lifetime?
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoI’m sitting under tent canvas, eye-mask on, swaddled like a newborn in a linen blanket. There is a woman singing a Jamaican folk song somewhere in the...
Battle for the museum review: Museums get a lot wrong, but then so does this book
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoIn theory, I should like this book. It’s about the corruption of what Rachel Spence calls Planet...
Millions More Trees Isn’t the Climate Fix New Zealand Thought
Bloomberg via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months ago(Bloomberg) -- Of all the solutions for a warming world, “plant more trees” seems pretty obvious....
An ape for palm oil? Why critics say Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’ plan is problematic
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoChina has “panda diplomacy,” Australia parades koalas at global summits, and now Malaysia plans to...
Russian Mercenaries Hunt the African Warlord America Couldn’t Catch
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoRussian mercenaries are chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph...
The Sumatran Orangutan Faces Large-scale Habitat Loss
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoThe Sumatran orangutan, scientifically named Pongo abelii, inhabits the lush rainforests of Sumatra. These arboreal primates, known as "persons of the forest" in Malay, are highly intelligent and share close genetic ties with humans.
The Binturong, aka Bearcat, Is Related to Neither Namesake
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoNeither a bear nor a cat, the Southeast Asian bearcat is actually a viverrid (family Viverridae). Its closest relatives are other small carnivorous mammals like civets.
Photos show what the childhood homes of 33 US presidents looked like
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoJoe Biden visits his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 2020.ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty...
Venomous 2-foot-long creature found lurking in Ecuador. See the ‘dazzling’ new species
Miami Herald via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoIn a forest of Ecuador, a 2-foot-long creature grabbed onto a branch and waited. Its yellow eyes...
The biggest snubs and surprises of the 2024 Oscar nominations
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoOscar nominations arrived Tuesday, an early morning wake-up call that was greeted, in some quarters, with all manner of jumping, mostly for joy, possibly some of the furious kind. For others ...
