United Kingdom – Kettinki

2024-10-12 @ 15.42.02 ∈ In English

Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife | Hakai Magazine

Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.

2024-10-09 @ 11.42.23 ∈ In English

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. […] The decision to transfer the islands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s preferred top-level domains: .io.

2024-10-02 @ 16.50.06 ∈ In English

Clearwing tropical moths travel 4,500 miles from Guyana to Port Talbot

[The moths] were spotted on a windowsill in the winter by ecologist Daisy Cadet and her mother Ashleigh in what scientists have described as an "improbable event" that "defies rational explanation". Through DNA analysis, the scientists confirmed the moths were not only a non-UK species, they were also previously unknown to science.

2024-09-05 @ 11.57.22 ∈ In English

Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data

There are many ways to improve the world, but their cost-effectiveness varies immensely. You can achieve a lot more if you rely on the best data on where to donate.

2024-08-16 @ 9.06.44 ∈ In English

Minuscule wasps enlisted to fight off moths in new pest control strategy

Rentokil plans to release entosite parasitoid wasps into the nooks and crannies of museums, heritage sites and homes to stop moth infestations. The minuscule wasps measure less than 0.5mm in size, and they stop moths reproducing by parasitising their eggs and laying their own eggs inside the moth eggs, preventing the larvae from hatching.

2024-03-25 @ 18.21.54 ∈ In English

More people care about climate change than you think

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

2024-03-08 @ 17.08.17 ∈ In English

The Butterfly Redemption | Hakai Magazine

How scientists, volunteers, and incarcerated women are finding hope and metamorphosis through supporting a struggling butterfly.

2024-02-05 @ 20.10.31 ∈ In English

Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever

[Tropical] bed bugs have turned up in the United States, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, France, Central Europe, Spain — “even in Russia, which would have once been unthinkable,” says [Chow-Yang] Lee, of the University of California, Riverside.

2024-01-26 @ 18.47.21 ∈ In English

Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID’s future

Four largely ignored coronaviruses circulate in humans without causing great harm and may portend the future for SARS-CoV-2

2024-01-09 @ 12.49.58 ∈ In English

(The Catalan populations rely on postural thermoregulation, if I’m reading the study correctly.)

Study finds Spanish butterflies are better at regulating their body temperature than their British cousins

Butterflies in both countries switch from heat-seeking to heat-avoiding behavior once air temperatures reach approximately 22°C. [British populations depend] more on microclimates for thermoregulation than Catalan populations.