Environment

Meet the trained Police rats

Police in Columbia are training rats to sniff out landmines. Lola the rat has a ninety percent success rate in locating explosive material in her training maze. Soon she will be working out in the field (literally). Police say rats are much smarter than dogs and can be trained in half the time (three months Meet the trained Police rats

green.tv

green.tv is the first broadband TV channel dedicated to environmental issues. It launched at the beginning of April with the backing of the United Nations Environment Programme. The site had 250,000 hits in the first week of being online.