“If left unchecked, rabies is likely to kill over two-thirds of all wolves in Bale’s Web Valley, and spread further, with wolves dying horrible deaths and numbers dwindling to perilously low levels.”

Claudio Sillero of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Unit warns the BBC that rabies could wipe out the Ethiopian wolf.

“China will send a moon-lander and moon-buggy around 2012.”

A state news network announces ambitious plans for the Moon from China, via Reuters.

“Not all biofuels are created equal. There are enormous differences in what’s used to make them, how they perform in the engine, what they cost to produce and, of course, how much CO2 is emitted in their production processes.”

Rob Routs, executive director at Shell, answers questions from Times readers about biofuels.