Day: 21 September 2018
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How do you catch a lynx?: when buying a zoo goes horribly wrong
When the Tweedys bought a zoo in Borth, west Wales, it was a dream come true. But it soon turned into a nightmare of escaped animals, deaths and family feuding.
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Simon Usborne (The Guardian)
You might just be thinking that I have a fascination with zoos that became a nightmare for their owners, and maybe … -
The Dirty Secret of the Global Plan to Avert Climate Disaster
In 2014 Henrik Karlsson, a Swedish entrepreneur whose startup was failing, was lying in bed with a bankruptcy notice when the BBC called. The reporter had a scoop: On the eve of releasing a major report, the United Nation’s climate change panel appeared to be touting an untried technology as key to keeping planetary temperatures …