Last week…the World health Organisation…recommended that we get no more than a tenth of our calories from…sugar.

…the American sugar indistry says the recommendation is flawed, relies on bad science, and undermines the credibility of the organisations supporting it. Cutting back on sugar will not improve our health, but it will jeopardise the economies of developing nations dependent on sugar exports.

and…say goodbye to our favourite type of chimp, the bonobo…

Just 75 years after being discovered, our closest living relative is on the verge of extinction. A comprehensive survey of the bonobo, or pygmy chimp, indicates that it may have been hunted so intensively that it cannot survive.

…The survey was carried out between May and December 2003 within the 36,000-square-kilometre Salonga National Park, the only area of the DRC where bonobos are protected…The survey failed to spot a single ape, and recorded the vocalisations of just one individual.