A researcher from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew bends over his notes while hunting for beech acorns in Romania.Thomas Freeth / Courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard.
Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or
Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s.
Kate Middleton’s shock diagnosis last week has shone a light on the startling trend, with top doctors claiming it is a worldwide problem.
Despite years of research, researchers are baffled as to what is behind the problem.
Increased awareness thanks to the likes of Dame Deborah James, who died from bowel cancer aged 40 in 2022, and improved diagnosis methods are thought to have
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There are three main forces driving the conflict on the Colorado River. The first is an outdated legal system that guarantees more water to seven Western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—than is actually available in the river during most years. The second is the exclusion of Native American tribes from
North Dakota lawmakers and higher education leaders are beginning to chart a path for how to respond to neighboring Minnesota’s upcoming program that will offer income-based free tuition to thousands of students.
Higher education leaders on Wednesday detailed the situation
The battle for sunloungers on the Costa del Sol is now so tortuous that tired Brits are being forced to lay on the floor as they queue for two hours or more from just after dawn, MailOnline can reveal today.
The sunbed wars in southern Spain are continuing unabated during the summer break with some families even deploying their fitter and faster children to beat older holidaymakers to the pool.
Exclusive pictures show how some waited for up to two
British tourists in Rhodes and Corfu are scrambling to get home as wildfires rip through the Greek islands amid 45C heat, sparking Greece’s largest disaster evacuation ever.
Families were forced to curl up on the floors of Rhodes International Airport and sports halls for a second night running as they wait to be taken home, but officials have warned the dire situation could yet get worse.
With thousands of tourists caught up in hours of delays at the airport after
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PARIS — As founder of the privacy-focused search engine Qwant, Eric Leandri was fond of citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The self-styled European tech champion has mentioned the landmark United Nations document in interviews at least a dozen times since 2017.
“I love human rights,” Leandri said in September 2021, referring to the section in the declaration guaranteeing the right to
Therese Coffey will vow to end the ‘8am scramble’ for GP appointments tomorrow when she unveils her blueprint to fix the NHS, it was claimed today.
The newly-appointed Health Secretary is responsible for ensuring the crisis-stricken health service delivers for patients.
Under her ‘ABCD’ list of priorities, she has promised to tackle deadly ambulance delays, record Covid-induced backlogs and problems in social care.
Making it easier for patients to see their GP is also at the top of her agenda,
Britain’s booster jab drive threatened to descend into chaos today as the autumn roll-out kicked off.
Health officials in England are still ‘urgently’ looking for volunteers to help dish out jabs, with them now engaged in a last-minute scramble to find thousands of people willing to help.
At the same time, retired medics who want to help are being delayed by ‘ridiculous’ bureaucracy, which sees them have to fill out various forms and pay to administer jabs.
A new tick-box
Der Mitbegründer von Daily Caller und Moderator von Fox News, Tucker Carlson, hielt am Freitag die Grundsatzrede auf dem Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, in der er vorschlug, dass Präsident Joe Biden 2024 nicht zur Wiederwahl kandidieren wird.
Carlson spielte auf eine mögliche Kandidatur des ehemaligen Präsidenten Donald Trump an, deutete in der auf Fox Nation live übertragenen Rede jedoch an, dass es keine Möglichkeit gibt, zu wissen, wer bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen 2024 für die Führung der Demokratischen Partei kandidieren
