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A remarkable dragonfly migration stretching between 14,000 and 18,000 kilometers has been discovered which spans the Indian Ocean. The migration is by far the longest known insect migration, dwarfing the 7,000km journey of monarch butterflies. Millions of dragonflies make the epic migration every year, which spans from India to the Maldives, the Seychelles, Mozambique, Uganda [...]
The last known living Geochelone abigdoni tortoise will hopefully be a dad this time around. He has been living with two female tortoises of a similar species – and now there are five eggs. 200-pound George, between 90 and 100 years old,was discovered in 1972. Last year, one of his female companions laid eggs, but [...]
Here’s a book businesses should take a look at. Whether they are big or small any business could use a green makeover, even in this tough economy. Better yet, they could do a green makeover because of the economy. Many people do not realize that going green isn’t just about replacing everything with something greener, [...]
A major infestation of the mountain pine beetle, a scourge stretching from New Mexico, in the U.S., to British Columbia, Canada, has been turning vast areas of formerly green pine forests to rust red, and slowly killing them. The beetle infestation has been growing “exponentially” since 2006-07, according to the Forest Service management team in [...]
