In September last year Law enforcement agents from five Southern California counties coordinated the operation to investigate, raid and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. Mission, Operation Protect the Innocent., was one of the largest such raids in recent years, involving more than 64 agencies. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, this was...

Unprecedented heat, drought, and wildfires have caused havoc and misery in the once mild British Isles this year as climate change has taken its toll beyond the mid-latitudes. Across the Channel, Europe’s once pleasant Mediterranean climate has been plagued by dangerous fires, smoke, heat, floods and, more recently, glacier collapse for several years. The United...

The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted certain economic and welfare issues associated with the use of animals for research. Pandemic-related closures have meant many labs have had to halt experiments and euthanize animals. Back then, the race to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 meant monkeys were in short supply due to huge demand. Although alternative...