A little highlight about nature

Russia is known for its population of the Amur tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger, which is one of the rarest big cats in the world! Based on the interim census findings, the current population of Amur tigers is between 480 and 540.

The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan.

After a pandemic year that hobbled movie theaters and saw streaming services make new inroads into Hollywood, the Academy Awards put its strongest support Tuesday behind two films made with big-screen grandeur that were also streamed into homes: Jane Campion's gothic western “The Power of the Dog” and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic “Dune.”

The Associated Press, New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune won Pulitzers on Friday for coverage of the pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and racial injustice.

Olympus has announced the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45mm F4.0 PRO1, scheduled to go on sale in late March, 2020. This high-performance standard zoom lens conforms to the Micro Four Thirds System standard and features superb optical performance at all focal lengths, while being the world’s most compact, lightweight mode

Student journalists, plagued by questions of editorial independence and with varying degrees of First Amendment protections, nonetheless face the same press freedom challenges as their professional counterparts. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, which documents First Amendment aggressions in the United States, has collected student journalism-based incidents at both the university and high school levels. Since its launch in 2017, the Tracker has documented five cases of high school newspapers being censored or placed under prior review for their coverage of controversial topics. At the university level, it has collected two arrests, two physical attacks and three border stop involving student journalists, as well as three cases of subpoenas or legal orders.

Tamron announces three close-focusing, f/2.8 fixed focal lenses for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras:: the 20mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 (Model F050), the 24mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 (Model F051), and the 35mm F/2.8 Di III OSD M1:2 (Model F053).

A team of three Associated Press journalists won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting Monday for their work documenting torture, graft and starvation in Yemen's brutal civil war. Reporter Maggie Michael, photographer Nariman El-Mofty and video journalist Maad al-Zikry spent a year uncovering atrocities and suffering in Yemen, shining a light on a conflict largely ignored by the American public. In a series of stories, they told of how famished people in parts of Yemen were reduced to eating leaves to stay alive while corrupt officials diverted international food aid.