NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN -  1858 - A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to U.S. President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Cornish hedges under threat from developers, say c...

Nature's emergency: Where we are in five graphics

Evolutionary backing found in analysis of mammalia...

Ancient relative of the blue-tongued skink found i...

Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinc...

AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)