The City of Winnipeg has lost its bid to use a controversial pesticide to kill ground squirrels it says have created a hazard ...

The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the ...

MAMMALS come in all sizes from the largest of all, blue whales, to the smallest like the Least shrew. Whales are entirely ...

Leprosy affects thousands worldwide, typically caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. Until now, most believed the disease arrived in the Americas with European colonizers.

Leprosy, long believed to have been introduced to the Americas by Europeans, has a more complex history. A recent study ...

But here, in Grasslands National Park, the invitation is the opposite. This is a place where you’re not only allowed, but ...

An environmentally friendly fitness trend that merges jogging, walking or hiking and picking up litter, plogging originated ...

The Tax Foundation, a think-tank, estimates that 80% of America’s foreign direct investment comes from countries covered by ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...

Fans of Clarkson’s Farm have been relieved to hear that resident builder Alan Townsend – or Alan the Builder – is doing well following his recent heart surgery. Viewers have grown to love Diddly Squat ...