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UNESCO removes DR Congo park from endangered list

A young bonobo in DR Congo. /VCG The Democratic Republic of Congo scored a key heritage victory on Monday, July 19, as UNESCO removed one of its nature reserves from a list of threatened sites

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Endearing moment between mama bear and its cub

A mischievous bear cub bit its mother's face and cheekily stuck its tongue out while frolicking in the rain in the western Canadian province of Alberta. The wet bear cub seemed to enjoy the downpour

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Hainan diving coach encounters large school of ferocious barracuda

01:10 A diving coach recently captured on camera a large school of ferocious barracuda fish near Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province.Large pre

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Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing?

I’ve fundraised a lot. Tactically, fundraising is a skill like any other. You get better the more you do it. But practicing gets you nowhere if you don’t have a strong foundation in unders

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Pakistani FM visits Chinese nationals injured in blast

The Dasu attack is not only an attack on the Chinese, but also on Pakistan and the friendship between the two countries, said Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi when visiting the serious

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A manifesto of progress

People visit an exhibition about The Communist Manifesto at the National Museum of Classic Books in Beijing. [Photo by Wang Ru/China Daily] Exhibition highlights book that launched the movement

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Rare bloom of stinky Titan Arum plant

The Titan Arum plant at Kew Gardens in London bloomed, letting out stinky smells like rotting flesh. Also known as the "corpse flower," the plant is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.The

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Mesmerizing sea of clouds flows above SW China's Guizhou

On Tuesday, a mesmerizing sea of clouds was seen in the Feige Forest of Zunyi City in southwest China's Guizhou Province. During midsummer, the morning air in the fores

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Finding the mother of unweaned, stranded killer whale in NZ

A male killer whale calf was found stranded on rocks near Plimmerton, north of Wellington, New Zealand on July 11.Named Toa,Maori for "warrior,"the 2.5-meter-long whale is believed to be four to six

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Weather satellite monitored the N China's strongest rainfall this year

01:01 From July 11 to 12, north China experienced the strongest rainfall of the year.China's latest generation geostationary orbit weather satellite Fengyun-4B monitore

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Zero’s FXE offers electric motorcycle fun in a slightly new package

Zero Motorcycles has been around for over a decade and in that time it’s consistently improved its fleet of electric bikes. With the new FXE, the northern California company has taken the thoroughly e

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Instagram’s new test shows you stuff you’ve seen lately and lets you reshare it to Stories

Instagram is tinkering around with a new test feature that changes the way users reshare content they like to their Stories.The test, which will only appear for a subset of users, lets users see a col

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Austria Urges EU to Take Action Against Attempts to Use Migrants as Weapons

The European Union must respond to Belarus, Afghanistan and Turkey that attempt to use migrants as a weapon against the bloc, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schall

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Gembah raises $11M to ‘democratize product innovation’

Gembah’s mission statement is a deceptively simple one. The Austin-based company says it’s looking to “democratize product innovation by drastically lowering barriers to entry for creation of new prod

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Take a look at young mantis under macro lens

Photos show a lovely mantis nymphs sucking its foreleg under a macro camera. The photos were taken at Luocheng Park, Luannan County of Tangshan City in north China's He

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Real estate platform Casafari raises $15M to allow PE to buy single-family homes at scale

Just a Spotify used VC and PE backing to acquire the assets of the music industry so that we must now all rent our music via subscription, rather than own it for life, so a PropTech startup plans to f

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24 solar terms in nature: Minor Heat

01:43 Minor Heat is the eleventh of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. It begins on July 7 this year.Entering Minor Heat means the third month of sum