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Ihr Lebensraum sind Meere, Steppen, Wälder und Gebirge. Nomadisierende Wildtiere kennen keine Staatsgrenzen, sind vielfältigen Gefahren ausgesetzt und gehören zu den besonders bedrohten Tierarten. In eindrücklichen Porträts mit selten gezeigten Aufnahmen stellt der international anerkannte Umweltexperte Stanley Johnson die 'Wanderer der Wildnis' vor und berichtet über die Schutzmaßnahmen zur Erhaltung dieser Arten.
Johnson's The Virus reveals uncanny zoonotic parallels with the current corona virus: the outbreak of a mysterious and deadly disease, the origins of which are traced to a medical student infected by a green monkey. It features an epidemiologist as its hero and a desperate search for a vaccine...
KOMPROMAT: the Russian term for compromising materials about a politician or other public figure. The UK Referendum in June 2016, on Britain's membership of the EU, was a political showdown a British prime minister thought couldn't be lost. But the next morning Britain woke up to a shock result. Kompromat explores the skullduggery that might just have gone on behind the scenes.
Life in Washington DC is trying to 'return to normal' after the trauma of September 11, 2001. George W. Bush is President and Hillary Clinton already has her eye on higher things. One morning Su Soeung, who first came to the US as a child refugee from Cambodia receives an intriguing job offer. So begins an extraordinary train of events.