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As his face filled with angry bees, Albert Watson decided to keep climbing. The 69-year-old was about halfway up the rocky slope of Lone Mountain Friday afternoon when he was attacked by the swarm. He figured some stings wouldn’t kill him, but a fall down the mountain might, so he continued to march toward the [...]
It should be easy to guess from the fact that one wing is pink and the other blue – but this is an ultra-rare ‘ladyboy’ butterfly, which is born half male and half female. The amazing insect, known as a gynandromorph, stunned scientists after it emerged from its chrysalis with a pink wing on its [...]
Climate Change is going to have an adverse impact on India’s forest cover as well as the wheat production in the future, a government report to the United Nations has said. In its second National Communication on Climate Change to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, India has painted a grim picture of [...]
Scientific models are failing to accurately predict the impact of global warming on plants, says a new report. Researchers found in long-term studies that some are flowering up to eight times faster than models anticipate. The authors say that poor study design and a lack of investment in experiments partly account for the difference. They [...]
Expecting wild animals to thrive in increasingly fragmented habitats alongside a growing human population may be unrealistic, say scientists. But exactly how people and large mammals like chimpanzees should live together long-term in shared landscapes remains largely unresolved. UK researchers surveyed 134 people in 12 villages across the Hoima District of Uganda to understand how [...]
As one of the first to see the sunrise on May 5, 350 Aotearoa will launch a worldwide day of action “Connect the Dots” in New Zealand, highlighting extreme weather events and impacts of climate change, using dots to make the connection on a global scale. Connect the Dots recognises the record-breaking heat waves in [...]
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