'Football pitch' of Amazon forest lost every minute

Satellite images show a sharp increase in clearances of trees in the first half of this year.
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For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.
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New study: Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump in 2016

The study does not prove Russian interference swung the election to Trump. But it did find Trump's poll numbers improved when Russian trolls were active.
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Bra clasps save turtles lives

A North Carolina wildlife rescue came up with an ingenious way to mend cracked turtle shells.
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How plants reclaimed Chernobyl's poisoned land

Trees and other kinds of vegetation have proven to be remarkably resilient to the intense radiation around the nuclear disaster zone.
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Chinese scientists guilty of ‘researching while Asian’ in US

The hounding of leading cancer researcher Wu Xifeng from her job shows the political climate in the United States is not only stymying life-saving work but casting cold-war-style suspicion on Chinese-American and Chinese academics.
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Donald Trump has invoked a three-pronged attack against his Chinese nemesis

The weekend negotiations between the US President and China's Xi Jinping have been portrayed in some quarters as a breakthrough in the trade war, but it is nothing of the sort. Ah, the irony. It was China that rode to the rescue a decade ago to rescue global capitalism from itself and its excesses after a spectacular implosion in America's banking system.
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