A children’s hospital unit set up by pop star Madonna’s charity in Malawi now carries out more than 2,000 life-saving operations every year. It gives high-level medical care at a free public hospital. The Mercy James Centre for Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care is at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. It first opened in…

dormouseRepresentative image from Canva In 1902, a small population of edible dormice was released at Tring Park, a private estate in Hertfordshire, as part of a Victorian-era fascination with exotic wildlife. More than a century later, that single introduction has grown into a national problem: by 2018, the Mammal Society estimated around 23,000 edible dormice…

Credit: Arkæologi Vestjylland Danish archaeologists have unearthed rare textile remains from a Viking woman’s grave near Varde, in the heart of Western Jutland. During excavations at the Skonager site (ARV 661), a team of archaeologists discovered a Viking Age burial in which fragments of clothing survived against all odds. This discovery gives a rare glimpse…

The Mauritius kestrel was once so close to extinction that only four known individuals remained in the wild, including a single breeding pair. Its survival seemed increasingly uncertain until Welsh conservationist Carl Jones and a team of researchers began an intensive effort to save the species. Through captive breeding, careful monitoring, supplementary feeding and the…