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☆ Factbox: Conservation targets proposed for halting nature loss
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Gloria Dickie | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
REUTERS/Dan Koeck/File PhotoMONTREAL, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Countries negotiating a global deal to halt nature loss are considering 24 potential conservation targets during this month's U.N. biodiversity summit in Montreal. TARGET 3 - PROTECTED AREASUnder this central goal known as the "30-by-30" target, countries would agree to protect at least 30% of their land and sea territories by 2030. TARGET 14 - POLICYThis target proposes including biodiversity and conservation in national policies, regulations, planning, and poverty eradication strategies, as well in environmental impact assessments. TARGET 16 - SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTIONHere, negotiators seek to suggest or require national policies, laws or regulations that would encourage consumers to make sustainable choices. TARGET 21 - EQUITABLE REPRESENTATION AND INCLUSIONThis settled target aims to make sure that conservation strategies represent all genders and indigenous communities.
☆ In Chile, amateur beekeeper rescues hives from coastal tourist city
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Rodrigo Garrido | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Amateur beekeeper Angel Nieto, known as "the Bee Rescuer", prepares to remove a swarm of bees from a tree on a private property, in Vina del Mar, Chile December 3, 2022. REUTERS/Rodrigo GarridoVINA DEL MAR, Chile, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A goldsmith by trade, Angel Nieto carefully pries away a beehive from an inner-city tree in Chile's coastal Vina del Mar. Chilean scientists have warned of declining bee populations, threatened by agricultural pesticides and the impacts of climate change. "In this space we prepare for them, they can be free, live peacefully, without any aggressive interventions," he added. Reporting by Rodrigo Garrido; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Extraordinary close-up images show insects as you’ve never seen them before
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Released on 22 November, “Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril” is a collaboration between Biss and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Biss spent two years photographing the insects, capturing every extraordinary detail from strands of hair to the reflection in a wing. "Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril" is out now in hardcover. The insect specimens were couriered to the UK, where Levon Biss photographed them in his studio. He has photographed seeds and fruits in extraordinary detail, insect eggs, the human eye and even mold growing on tea bags.
Persons: Levon Biss, Biss, –, Abrams, ”, “, Elli Biss “, Lauri Halderman Organizations: CNN, American Museum of, of Locations: British, Biss, New York City
☆ From wine to fishing tackle, retailers pray Advent calendars draw in shoppers
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Doyinsola Oladipo | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Dior is selling a $3,500 Advent calendar inside a wooden and cotton canvas box fashioned like its Paris boutique on Avenue Montaigne. For toddlers, Walmart sells the Baby Shark Advent Calendar, priced at $44.99. And for anglers, there's a $34.99 fishing tackle Advent calendar with life-like and color-changing soft baits at The Fishing Shop. Selfridges & Co has 128 Advent calendars priced from 4.99 to 623 pounds this season, more than double last year's offerings. The ALDI Holiday Magic Wine Advent Calendar includes 24 unique labels and 16 wine varieties from eight countries of origin for $59.99.
☆ 'Vulture bees' feed their babies rotting flesh, even though it breeds toxin-producing bacteria. They're a mystery to scientists.
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
"Vulture bees" feed their larvae rotting meat instead of relying on pollen like other bees. Scientists hung raw chicken in Costa Rica and watched vulture bees fill their leg pouches and stomachs with it. Sure enough, the researchers discovered that vulture bees' guts may be more like actual vultures or hyenas than their pollen-gathering relatives. The vulture bees had lots of acid-producing bacteria like lactobacillus, probably creating a far more acidic gut than their pollen-eating cousins. They want to study what happens in the pods where the vulture bees store meat before feeding it to their larvae.
☆ Gaza beekeepers who survived blockade struggle with unstable climate
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Thomson Reuters | A Senior Correspondent With Nearly Years | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
More than 15 years of Israeli blockade has not quite killed off beekeeping in Gaza. But beekeepers say climate change just might. "This year was the worst for beekeepers in Gaza," said Waleed Abu Daqqa, who tends hives in the eastern section of the Palestinian coastal enclave. And now, the "prime factor" causing a bee crisis is climate change caused by global warming, Baysouni said. Bees and other pollinators are vital to agriculture and wildlife around the world, and the impact of climate change is a global problem.
☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.
☆ Fertilizers change how bumblebees 'see' flowers by changing the electric field that attracts them to pollinate, study finds
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A study found fertilizers change that electric field and put bumblebees off from fertilizing. When they came across negatively-charged flowers, their small bodies sense the flower's electric field like a magnet. When they pollinate, the bees change the flowers' electric field. Ed Reschke/Getty imagesFertilizers change the electric fieldThe study found that spraying synthetic fertilizers onto a field didn't change the color or smell of the flower. To test whether the sprayed flower's electric field was putting off the bees, the scientists artificially charged flowers to mimic these electric fields.
☆ 'TrumpIsDead' is trending on Twitter after a verified user apparently decided to test moderation of the platform under Elon Musk's reign
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A comedian intentionally started the claim, in what could be a test for Elon Musk. Musk's handling of moderation on the platform has quickly become an issue under his leadership. Within an hour, Heidecker's tweets had amassed close more than 20,000 likes, thousands of retweets and #TrumpIsDead began trending on Twitter on Tuesday. —Tim Heidecker: Sole Host of On Cinema (@timheidecker) November 1, 2022Twitter and Musk did not respond to a request for comment. Contact Kali Hays at khays@insider.com, on secure messaging app Signal at 949-280-0267, or through Twitter DM at @hayskali.
☆ Woman accused of unleashing bees on deputies serving eviction notice in Massachusetts
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
— A Massachusetts woman is facing multiple assault and battery charges for allegedly releasing a swarm of bees on a group of sheriff’s deputies, some of them allergic to bee stings, as they tried to serve an eviction notice, authorities said. Hampden County Sheriff's DeptThe Hampden County Sheriff’s Department deputies went to a home in Longmeadow on the morning of Oct. 12 and were met by protesters, according to the official department report. She started “shaking” the hives, broke the cover off one, causing hundreds of bees to swarm out and initially sting one deputy, according to the report. When Woods was told that several officers were allergic to bees, she said “Oh, you’re allergic? Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi said Woods could have faced more serious charges if anything worse had happened to those stung.
☆ Massachusetts woman accused of assaulting officers with swarm of angry bees
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Rorie Sussan Woods, 55, unleashes a swarm of bees on deputies serving eviction papers in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S., October 12, 2022. Hampden County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERSOct 20 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts woman stands accused of using a swarm of bees as a dangerous weapon, according to a county sheriff, after she allegedly unleashed a hive of angry insects on deputies trying to serve an eviction notice last week. "A sheriff’s deputy tried to stop her, but as the agitated bees started getting out and circling the area, he pulled back," the office said. She then smashed the lid of one hive and flipped it off the flatbed, agitating the bees, the sheriff said on Wednesday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Bill BerkrotOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ As market volatility persists, Wall Street analysts say to sell these stocks
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Seven of the stocks — all part of the MSCI World Index — have analysts' price targets below their current share price, according to FactSet data. Equity analysts at investment banks and research firms rate stocks as sell or underweight if they believe the shares will perform poorly over the next 12 months. Analysts' median price target for AMC is 57.5% below the current share price, FactSet data shows. Wedbush Securities analyst Alicia Reese downgraded AMC from $4 to $2 but believes the company has long-term potential at her price target. Clorox Analysts' average price target on Clorox is just 1.4% below the current share price, but 11 out of 14 analysts covering the stock give it a sell or underweight rating.
☆ Queen Elizabeth's life features in a new comic book
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
The cover of a comic book biography by TidalWave Comics celebrating the life of Britain's Queen Elizabeth is seen in this undated handout image. TidalWave Productions/Handout via REUTERSNEW YORK, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The life of Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, is celebrated in a new comic book by TidalWave Comics, covering her public and private life, big events, family scandals, and crises. Among the 2,000 congregation at Westminster Abbey, where monarchs have been married, buried and crowned over the last 1,000 years, were some 500 presidents, prime ministers, foreign royal family members and dignitaries. The book, released on Wednesday, is available digitally and in hard and soft covers. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Alicia Powell; Editing by Richard ChangOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ The best wildlife photos of 2022 include a ball of bees, a snake eating a bat, and polar bears raiding an abandoned town
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
The London Natural History Museum announced the 2022 winners of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. The winning photos include a frenzied ball of bees, a dancing sea star, and the brushy mouth of a whale. The cactus bees, like most other bees, are endangered by habitat loss, pesticides, and the changing climate. The resulting photo, above, won the Grand Title in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, which is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London each year. As clouds of sea-star sperm and eggs filled the water, photographer Tony Wu captured this otherwordly invertebrate in the throes of its dance.
☆ Plastic pollution may have met its match: The saliva of wax worms
  + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Two substances in the saliva of wax worms — moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs — readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance in the global fight against plastic pollution. For plastic to degrade, oxygen must penetrate the polymer — or plastic molecule — in an important initial step called oxidation. Wax worms are the larvae of wax moths, a species called Galleria mellonella. The idea would be to produce the worms’ saliva enzymes synthetically, which the researchers succeeded in doing, to break down plastic waste. Bertocchini said the use of billions of wax worms to do the job has drawbacks including generating carbon dioxide as they metabolize the polyethylene.
☆ This biotech startup is developing a vaccine for honeybees. Check out the 16-slide pitch deck Dalan Animal Health used to raise $3.5 million.
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A biotech startup that is developing a vaccine for honeybees has just raised $3.55 million. Check out the 16-slide deck used to raise the fresh funds. A startup that has created a vaccine to protect honeybees against American Foulbrood, a bacterial disease that threatens bee colonies worldwide, has raised $3.5 million in fresh funds. Dalan Animal Health, founded in 2018 in Georgia, US, aims to ease beekeepers away from "unsustainable" treatments such as antibiotics. Check out the 16-slide deck used to raise the fresh funds.
☆ Matthew McConaughey shares what his parents taught him about consent
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Matthew McConaughey says his father helped teach him about the concept of consent. During a recently published episode of Amanda de Cadenet’s “The Conversation: About the Men” podcast, the actor talked about how his parents instructed him about healthy sexual relationships. “I had been taught, been guided by my parents about respect for a woman, respect for the relationship, respect for sexual intimacy, respect for space,” he said. “And he goes, ‘Well, it’s gonna go further than that one day. “After that, I got to have some healthy sexual relations,” McConaughey said.
☆ 6 terrible and potentially dangerous health tips from Gwyneth Paltrow
  + stars: | 2017-07-05 | by ( Caroline Praderio | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
ShutterstockGoop recently made headlines for selling a $66 jade egg meant to be placed inside the vagina and squeezed using a series of muscle contractions. Is is true that having a strong pelvic floor leads to stronger orgasms, and using a jade egg might strengthen those key muscles. But a $66 jade egg is not the only way to achieve this. Plus, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) notes that some Ayurvedic supplements can contain toxic amounts of dangerous heavy metals. Obviously not all Ayurvedic products are dangerous, and people all over the world have used them without issues, as proponents argue.
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