The Thai navy on Tuesday said it had intercepted wildlife traffickers attempting to smuggle 104 endangered pangolins to China on the Mekong river. The creatures, prized for their skin, scales and meat and hunted extensively in Southeast Asia, are believed to have originated in Malaysia or southern…
Maryland Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies Begin
BALTIMORE — Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year’s Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year’s Day.James Scales, 68, was married to William Tasker, 60, on Tuesday shortly after midnight by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake inside City Hall.Read More…
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"Conflict-free" tags help revive Congo minerals trade
NYABIBWE, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Miners clustered in a muddy riverbed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo watch as a bag of tin ore is weighed on scales hung from a shovel and then sealed with a small plastic tag.
Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming
What they’re doing on Marsden Farm isn’t organic. It’s not industrial, either. It’s a hybrid of the two, an alternative version of agriculture for the 21st century: Smart, green and powerful. If the approach works at commercial scales, and there’s good reason to think it will, it might just be an answer to modern farming’s considerable problems.
