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• Dozens of bird eggs and chicks rescued from collapsing tree in California

  25-03-2025 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Los Angeles wildlife center staff working around clock to care for 47 eggs and 12 chicks, all double-crested cormorantsDozens of bird eggs and chicks were rescued from nests in a single wind-damaged eucalyptus tree that was dangerously close to collapsing in a California park.Now staff at the International Bird Rescue’s Los Angeles wildlife center have been working around the clock to care for the 47 eggs and 12 chicks, all double-crested cormorants, in hopes that they will be able to be r
  
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• Meet the twerking pollinator with a bum-bag: the dark-edged bee-fly

  25-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bombylius major, the thieving, deceiving, fluffy flying narwhal-like insect, that is a harbinger of springHundreds of nominations for invertebrate of the year whittled down to 10Everybody loves bees. But these bumbling pollinators are ten a penny. How about a pollinator who twerks? A pollinator with a bum-bag for storing sand? A pollinator that pretends it’s a bee but actually looks far cooler? A pollinator with a dark side?All hail the dark-edged bee-fly (Bombylius major), a beautiful ins
  
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• From foul to fuel: how a seaweed problem could power the Caribbean

  25-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the climate heats up, Grenada’s beaches have become swamped with rotting sargassum. But biotech can turn it into fuel, fertiliser and plasticPhotographs by Haron Forteau
  It is hard to describe the putrid stench of the decaying sargassum seaweed blanketing miles of shoreline in Soubise, a fishing village in Grenada. The pungent odour wafts into passing vehicles, persisting long after they have left the Caribbean island’s coves, where the ocean has deposited masses of the seaweed, w
  
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• Call for pets’ toxic flea treatments to be tightly restricted in UK

  25-03-2025 12:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Lib Dems to urge government to control sale of products containing chemicals that kill wildlife such as fish and birdsThe use of toxic flea treatments for pets should be tightly restricted, the Liberal Democrats will say in parliament on Tuesday, as the chemicals kill wildlife including fish and birds.The government is coming under pressure to control the sale of pet flea treatments containing neonicotinoids, after it effectively announced a ban on the chemicals in pesticides on farms. However,
  
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• US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

  25-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts stingHoneybee deaths have hit record highs in the US, with the unprecedented loss of colonies pushing many beekeepers close to ruin as scientists scramble to identify the main cause of the huge declines.Commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 60% of their colonies, on average, over the winter, according to an ongoing Project Apis m. survey that covers more than two-thirds of Ame
  
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• I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US

  25-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Every bee is precious, and as the weather gets more erratic I’m growing concerned about the effect it is having on their wellbeingRead about our invertebrate of the year competition herePhotographs by Kate MedleyI’m an only child and grew up in the US in a time when children were free-range. My parents would open the door in the morning and say, “come back for meals.” I would disappear into the forest and wetlands. I loved the constant stories around me that I didn’
  
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