If you’re looking to conserve Pandas in the wild then it’s best if the forest you’re keeping them in has never been logged. I Zhang et al. writing in Biology Letters state “[I]t is no surprise that bamboo predicts panda habitat use. But it is surprising that old-growth forest should attain the same level of [...]

Question: when is a cannon not a cannon? Answer: when it’s a ‘high-pressure long-range deodorant spray’(!). For such is the description of the cannons currently being deployed in China to combat the malodorous odours emanating from a Beijing rubbish dump (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8639248.stm). Over 100 of the odour-busting devices have been recruited to defend the city’s inhabitants [...]