An area twice the size of the UK is used each year to produce pet food

Pet food is harming the planet: Industry churns out more greenhouse gases than the Philippines every year – and uses enough farmland to cover the UK twice over A total of 189,190 square miles of agricultural land is needed for dry pet food  Roughy the same as Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Pennsylvania combined Dry food … Read more

Astra seals deal to mass produce its Covid jab, as it begins US trials

Astra seals deal to mass produce its Covid jab, as it begins large-scale human trials in the US By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:16 BST, 1 September 2020 | Updated: 22:40 BST, 1 September 2020 Astrazeneca has struck a deal to mass-produce a potential Covid-19 vaccine, as it begins large-scale human trials … Read more

Starlings treated with low doses of FENTANYL produce songs like ‘free-form jazz’

Birds given doses of the opioid-based fentanyl produce songs purely for pleasure that ‘sound like free-form jazz’ compared to birds not given the drug. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that when birds sing in flocks rather than for mating purposes it is ‘gregarious’ and gives them pleasure. Birds don’t just sing to … Read more

Britons would run out of food by this Friday if the country was solely reliant on homegrown produce 

Britons would run out of food by this Friday if the nation was solely reliant on homegrown produce, according to new research.  Analysis by the National Farmers’ Union has found the proportion of the food that we consume that is produced in the UK has plummeted from 80 per cent in 1980 to just 64 … Read more

Idris Elba is set to star in and produce a new untitled spy film set in Africa for Apple TV+

Idris Elba is set to star in and produce a new untitled spy film set in Africa after Apple TV+ won the distribution rights By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 15:44 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 15:53 BST, 15 August 2020 Idris Elba is set to star in a new spy film, it was … Read more

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos to produce TV show based on New York Times bestseller Mexican Gothic

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos set to produce TV series based on the New York Times bestseller Mexican Gothic By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 22:58 BST, 11 August 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 11 August 2020 Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos are producing a TV show based on the hit book series Mexican … Read more