ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China eyes closer friendship, cooperation with Nicaragua: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn China looks forward to closer friendship and cooperation with Nicaragua, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.

ecns.cn (2022-01-03). China reopens its embassy in Nicaragua. ecns.cn China on Friday officially reopened its embassy in Nicaragua after the two countries resumed diplomatic relations on Dec. 10.

Dave Goulson (2022-01-02). Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse. truthout.org Most of us are familiar with the story of the passenger pigeon, so numerous in the late 1700s that flocks of billions of birds darkened the sky for hours as they passed. Humans exterminated them in a little over 100 years, the last wild passenger pigeon being shot in 1901. In contrast, few have ever heard of the Rocky Mountain locust, but its story is similar. Once very common, swarms would occasionally erupt from their core range in the eastern Rocky Mountains, spreading eastward across the Great Plains. In 18…