Word: speciesism
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Pity Hong Kong, for even as the city struggles in the face of regional and global economic forces, another, even more dreaded scourge casts Hong Kong's future in mortal and economic doubt. Cities evolve and prosper or wither and vanish just as individual species do. The causes of that...
Birds in urban environments are increasingly being threatened with extinction because males of many species cannot sing their mating calls loud enough for females to hear them over noise from vehicular traffic
To all those lovelorn Gen Xers who've been waiting for geek-hunk actor JOHN CUSACK to show up outside their windows with a boom box: he's not coming. Cusack is dating MEG RYAN, whom he first met when the two stars lent their voice talents to Disney's...
Professor Kennedy Shortridge of the University of Hong Kong has run blood tests on birds, animals and people in the territory, in Taiwan, in Jiangsu province and in the Pearl River Delta. Especially in the latter two places, he found farmers with antibodies suggesting exposure to every single type of...
In the meantime, we wait to see if SARS can adapt with the same deadly efficiency as influenza?and once a virus achieves airborne transmission from one person to another, the consequences might be as brutal as the 1918 flu that killed one in 60 of all the people on...