Greater monitoring of the risk of diseases spread by insects is needed in environments where animals and people coexist, say ...

Livestock farming in wildlife areas can alter the ecology, increasing numbers of disease-spreading mites and ticks.

Police have been told not to use terms such as ‘black sheep’ and ‘blacklisted’ in case it causes offence. Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire constabularies have ...

Mr Akinbusoye, head of the watchdog until May 2024, questioned why the term “whitewashing” was not singled out for criticism but the terms “blacklisted”, “black sheep” and “black ...

You might think that explaining why the sky is blue would be kind of simple. But even a brief explanation of it requires a lot of science. The colors of everything you see are produced in different ...

The booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up across the US. In Milam County, outside Austin, SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar ...

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Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials ...

Conquering Mount Everest will cost climbers an extra $4,000 (£3,270) after Nepal hiked up fees for the first time in almost a decade. Nepal's government has announced a 36% increase in permit ...