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Biden’s Govt Has Completed The First-Ever National Inventory Of Old-Growth Forests In The US, Using Data Analysis And Public Input. These Ancient Forests Hold Mysteries & Play A Crucial Role In, E.G., Carbon Storage But Face Threats From, E.G., Logging, And Climate Change. Collab. Btw US Forest Service & Nasa Will Help Protect The Forests.

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The USDA Has Approved The First-Ever Vaccine For Honey Bees. The Vaccine License, Conditionally Issued To Diamond Animal Health On December 29th, 2020, Would Help Prevent And/Or Treat The American Foulbrood Disease In Honeybees. The Disease Is Said To Be One Of The Most Widespread And The Most Destructive Of The Honey Bee Brood Diseases

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A Woman, For The First Time, Has Been Sworn In As Peru’s First Female President. The Woman, Ms. Dina Boluarte, A 60-Year-Old Former Lawyer, Was The Vice-President To The Ousted President, Pedro Castillo, Who Was Impeached, On 12/07/22, By Peru’s Congress. Ms. Boluarte, Who Is The Youngest Of 14 Children, Was Born In The Southern Town Of Chalhuanca.

Honduras Has Elected Its First Female President, Ms. Xiomara Castro. Ms. Castro, Who Had Contested Twice For The Presidency After Her Husband, Manuel Zelaya, Was Ousted In A 2009 Coup, Will End The Right-Wing National Party 12-Year Reign. Ms. Castro Promises Changes To A Country Plagued By Large-Scale US Migration, Violent Crime, And Drug Trafficking.

A New Assessment Indicates That 30% (17,500) Of The ~60,000 Tree Species On The Earth May Face Extinction, Due To Factors Like Grazing And Farming, Fire, Logging, Development Etc. Preserving Existing Forest And Expanding Protection Areas; Utilizing Seedbanks And Botanic Gardens, Coupled With Reforestation Education Could Stem The Tide.

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Researchers Have Discovered A New Beetle Species From A Dinosaur’s Fossilized Feces. The 230-Myr-Old Tiny Beetles, Named Triamyxa Coprolithica, Is The First Insect Described From Fossilized Feces, Which Was, According To Researchers, Likely Excreted By Silesaurus Opolensis, A ~2 m-Long Small Dinosaur That Lived In Poland ~230 Myrs Ago.

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Nikkie de Jager Will Make History As The First Transgender Host Of The Eurovision Song Contest, As She Will Be One of This Year 2021 Competition Hosts. The 27-Year-Old Dutch Star, Known As NikkieTutorials On YouTube, Is A YouTube Star With About 3 Million Subscribers To Her Beauty Channel, Which Receives Over 1.4 Billion Video Views.

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Poland Is Ranked As The Worst Country, In The European Union, For The LGBT People For The Second Year In A Row. The Ranking, Produced By ILGA-Europe, Factors In Parameters Like The Legal Situation And Social Climate Faced By The LGBT People. Malta (94%), Belgium (74%), And Luxembourg (72%) Came Top In Rank While Poland Scored 13%.

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Researchers, Using Satellite Imagery And Algorithm, May Have, For The First Time, Developed A Successful Method For Monitoring Animals In Complex Environments. Heterogenous Environments Make It Harder To Count Animals. This Method Could Enable Animal Conservationists To Better Protect Biodiversity From A Possible Sixth Mass Extinction.

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A New Research Is Indicating That The Eastern Honeybees (Apis Cerana), In Vietnam, Use Animal Dung As A Tool To Protect Themselves From Hornets Attack. But Researchers Are Still Speculating As To How The Poop Works– Could It Be Used To Mask The Hornets’ Marking Pheromone?; Mask Bee Odours?, Or Just Deter Hornet Because Of The Smell?

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A New Study May Have Demonstrated That The Defensive “I See You” Signal That Some Honey Bees Relay To Hornets Is Both Visually Driven And Contagious. The Signal Tells The Hornets That Their Attack Plan Has Been Exposed, And Also Sends An Alarm For Reinforcement. Hornets Attack Can Be Deterred, With More Defending Bees Mimicking The Signal.

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The First Religious School, Dawatul Koran Third Sex Madrassa, For The Transgender Community, In Bangladesh, Has Openned, Thanks To Funds From The Late Businessman, Ahmad Chowdhury. The School Will Educate Transgenders So That They Can Find Jobs, As Conservative Social Attitude Has Made It Hard For Them To Access Jobs And Education.

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The Beetle, Phloeodes Diabolicus, Aka The Diabolical Ironclad Beetle Is Said To Have An Uncrushable Exoskeleton That Stretches To Withstand Extreme Forces, The Equivalent Of A 150-Pound Person Surviving The Weight Of About 25 Blue Whales. The Beetle, Found Primarily On The West Coast Of North America, Could Be A Source Of Animal Inspired Innovation.

Researchers, After ~30 Years, Have Finally Discovered The Gene, In Chromosome 11, Which Allows The Cape Honey Bees Of S. Africa To Give Birth, Asexually, To Only Females. But This Process Often Leads To Conflict As Worker Bees Fight To Be The Next Queen Mother. This Find Has Important Implications For Sectors Like Agriculture And Biotech.

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Marie Cau, Age 50, Has Become The First Transgender Mayor In French History. She Won The Election During France’s Local Elections On March 15th, 2020, Becoming The Mayor In The Village Of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, Which Is In Northern France. Congrats, Cau, For Achieving Such A Feat And For Also Making History.

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Some Bees, Like The European Honeybees, Fend Off Hornets By Stinging Them. While Other Bees, Like The Japanese Honeybees Swarm The Hornet, Working Together, By Vibration, To Generate Heat Of About 115 Degrees, Which Is Hot Enough To Cook The Hornet. Asian Giant Hornet Carries A Rigid Exoskeleton That Makes Bee Stings Ineffective. Cool!

I Do Concur That, Though, Well-Intentioned, The Creation Of Rhino Horn From Horse Hair Could Have Major Disadvantages Than Advantages, As Flooding The Market With Fake Horns Could Increase Poaching Rate Because Demand For The Real Thing Could Surge. In addition, It May Become The New Get Out Of Jail Excuse For Poachers Feigning Ignorance.…

The Importance Of Bees Cannot Be Overemphasized. And So, It Is Really Alarming To Hear That 500 Million Bees Dropped Dead In Brazil Within 3 Months. And This Is All Thanks To Pesticides With Neonicotinoids and Fipronil–Products That Are Banned In Europe. Global Food Security Definitely Hangs In The Balance With News Like This.

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Another Woman Has Just Broken A Major Record In Politics, But This time In The USA. Ms. Lori Lightfoot, Age 56, Just Became The First African American And Openly Gay Woman, And With No Political Office Experience, To Become The Mayor Of Chicago, The Third Largest City, By Population, In The USA. Congrats To Her.

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What Could Happen When A Liberal, Who’s A Divorcee, And With Positive Views On LGBTQ+ Rights, Contest For The Presidency Of One Of The Most Socially Conservative Countries In The World, Slovakia? Well, She Won! This Makes Zuzana Caputova, Age 45, The First Woman To Become The President Of Slovakia. Congrats!

Zuzana Caputova becomes S…