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What Europe can learn from the successful reintroduction of a once extinct butterfly in Britain IMAGE: This is a photo of a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion). Halle (Saale)/ Washington: Intelligent countryside management could improve the survival chances of animal and plant species threatened by climate change. The creation of small heat-shielded habitats and better links between habitats would counteract a moderate temperature increase and give threatened species more time to adapt better and/or to migrate to cooler regions. This is the conclusion drawn by scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) from a British study on saving the Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion). This butterfly became extinct in Britain in 1979 and was reintroduced there 25 years ago. Since then, the butterfly's... [read full story]
A Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1,200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in...
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A total of 264 cases of syphilis were diagnosed in Scotland in 2008, the most in more than half a century. A report prepared by the National Health Service also showed young people are the...
LONDON -- Six years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a panel probing Britain's role in the war began public hearings Tuesday, with the chairman declaring that he would "get to the heart" of what happened.
The family of a soldier who killed himself in Baghdad is mounting a lobbying effort to overturn the longstanding policy preventing the president from sending condolence letters to families of troops who have committed suicide.
