The global oil downtrend seen in April 2020 was unprecedented. Several records were shattered, including all-time price lows, with some contracts actually going into...
Cherry ValleySmoke rises from the 'Apple Fire'
Photograph: Ringo HW Chiu/AP
Cherry ValleyHotshot firefighters hike to a location to cut fire lines and battle the fire...
The three nestlings who hatched atop a Melbourne skyscraper have taken to the air for the first time. As Victoria endured one of the world's longest Covid-19 lockdowns, thousands of Melburnians watched the live feed of the nesting box, and the...
Antelope is best, monkey is chewy, bats needs a sauce, forest porcupine is mild, and pangolin - one of the most trafficked animals in the world - tastes great roasted but smells awful. That, at least, was what the Gabonese workers...
The ocean is as black as chipped obsidian, yet whichever way you look dozens of bright lights illuminate the water and the night sky. Nearly 400 nautical miles from the South American mainland, the crew of a Peruvian coastguard ship count...
House Democrats on Tuesday released an ambitious and wide-ranging climate crisis plan on par with what scientists say the world will have to do to avert catastrophic warming.
But the US government remains far from ready to seriously tackle the problem, and...
It was hard, chilly work for nine-year-old Alfie Perry and his eight-year-old classmate Dempsey Owens.
But, after a bit of cajoling from their pals and teacher on a windswept hillside above the town of Neath, the pair succeeded in planting a sessile...
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Crew from rural Indonesian villages, recruited by suspected traffickers, endured horrendous conditions aboard an illegal Chinese-run sharking operation in the western Pacific. Four men never came home and at least three were dumped overboard on the high seas, leaving their...
Dear Clients and Partners,
For the convenience of our clients from Latin America, we've expanded the list of payment systems by adding 17 new ways of depositing funds to their trading accounts.
New payments systems for depositing are available in the following countries:
Argentina:...
Residents in parts of Britain that were hit by winter flooding have experienced long delays to repair works and insurance claims while stuck in temporary accommodation in the face of a national lockdown.
Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes...
No longer should our survival be an afterthought. If we are to withstand the climate crisis, every decision should begin with the question of what the...
Winner | Birds
Flurin Leugger - Takeoff. A coyote panics geese
Photograph: Flurin Leugger/2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year
Third place | Birds
Hermann Hirsch - Stony Dipper. An...
Plastic recycling is a scam. You diligently sort your rubbish, you dutifully wash your plastic containers, then everything gets tossed in a landfill or...
On a sloping hill just south of Dartmoor, boughs are laden with brightly coloured Devon crimson, pig's snout, tale sweet and slack-ma-girdle. Gabriel David...
Thousands are protesting in the Indian state, suspecting the coal lobby is behind construction plans in sanctuaryMollem national park has long been the emerald...
The UK government is poised to reveal plans for a new state-backed green bank to help finance Britain's climate ambitions, three years after ministers...
Admiral Markets has won three awards for 2020 in the Global Banking and Finance Review awards - Best Forex Broker in Spain, Best Forex Education & Training in Germany, and Admiral Markets Group AS CEO...
In the low-lying Gelderse Valley some 85km east of Amsterdam, a Dutch university is changing how humans eat.
There, a bright-eyed press officer with Willy Wonka flair is showing me the miracles of modern food science....
Admiral Markets is excited to share that we are expanding our zero-spread offering from MetaTrader 4 to MetaTrader 5!The Zero.MT5 account offers traders spreads starting from just 0 pips, with commissions from just $0.05 per...
Dear TeleTrade Customers,
Daylight saving time in the United States will begin on Sunday, March 8, 2020. As a result, trading sessions for certain instruments will change.
Please see the relevant trading session changes as of March...
On March 8th, 2020 TenkoFX will switch its trading servers 1 hour ahead, from GMT 2 to GMT 3.The change will affect all types of TenkoFX trading accounts. In ECN, STP accounts summer time will...
The free forex seminar series started by XM in 2020 in Latin America reached its first event venue, Bogota, on 22nd February, where we returned to offer online investors further opportunities for professional forex education.Organised...
Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as "carbon sinks" and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown.The Amazon could turn into a source of...
Tensions at the Greek-Turkish border and the coronavirus show why the European Union needs a climate law that binds member states to net zero emissions by 2050, the EU's top official on climate action has...
Scientists monitoring the movements of the worst locust outbreak in Kenya in 70 years are hopeful that a new tracking programme they will be able to prevent a second surge of the crop-ravaging insects.
The UN...
A fleet of Russian supertrawlers has been spotted fishing off the coast of Scotland in a protected area, raising concerns by environmentalists over the...
As old-timers go, the Methuselah tree in California's White Mountains takes some beating. According to research released last week, this ancient bristlecone pine will...