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Three out of four populations of rare butterflies in Eastern Denmark have been lost
In just 26 years, the distribution of rare butterflies has plummeted by 72% in Eastern Denmark. Several species are threatened with extinction, yet the conservation actions aiming to safeguard species have proved unsuccessful.
2023-09-06 @ 16.39.17 ∈ In English
Scientists spice up their anti-mosquito weaponry with mustard
Of the four seed meal types, garden cress proved the most lethal, killing more than 95 percent of mosquito larvae after only 24 hours and 100 percent in less than 48 hours. All seed meals were toxic to the larvae, except for a pennycress treatment that had been heated.
2023-09-06 @ 16.26.39 ∈ In English
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Scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive
While cesium from both the nuclear weapons testing and the Chernobyl accident spread through the soil, [cesium seeps very slowly.] Deer truffles, located between 20 and 40 centimeters, have already absorbed the “older” cesium from six decades ago. The “younger” cesium from Chernobyl […] is just now integrating at the soil depths where the mushrooms are located.
2023-09-02 @ 16.25.25 ∈ In English
(From April)
I Can See for Piles and Piles and Piles
So our first qualifier for what constitutes a successful pile photo is depth. There has to be a fair amount of stuff present. Your viewer needs to be thinking, “That’s too much of that thing in one place, right?” Verticality is important here. If things aren’t amassed on top of one another, you don’t have a pile. You have an arrangement.
2023-09-02 @ 16.16.39 ∈ In English
Hundreds of Tough Mudder racers infected by rugged, nasty bacterium
Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event—a very muddy obstacle course race—held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like symptoms, nerve pain, and other symptoms, local health officials and media outlets report.