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    Pokémon Go Players Become Unusual Heroes for Animals

    Pokémon Go Players Become Unusual Heroes for Animals

    Pokémon Go—the app that has hoards of people roaming streets, parks and public spaces looking for imaginary Pokémon—turns out to be beneficial for animals. This is what Pokémon Go players see when their eyes are glued to their phones.Photo credit: brar_j, Flickr While playing the app several users have stumbled upon abandoned or injured animals […]

    This Popular Insecticide Is Lowering Sperm Count in Honey Bees by 40%

    This Popular Insecticide Is Lowering Sperm Count in Honey Bees by 40%

    Neonicotinoids, a common and highly controversial class of insecticides linked to catastrophic bee deaths, could be significantly lowering the sperm count of male drone honey bees and cutting their life span by a third, Swiss researchers found. Researchers from the Institute of Bee Health at the University of Bern, Switzerland discovered that male drone honeybees […]

    World’s First Urban Bee Highway Helps Save Pollinators

    World’s First Urban Bee Highway Helps Save Pollinators

    By Tasnim Abdi In 2015, ByBi, an environmental group based in Oslo, Norway, designed the world’s first urban bee highway—a route filled with green roofs and flowers—that supports bees living in city environments. ByBi One-third of Norway’s 200 wild bee species are endangered. The bee highway works with businesses, schools, organizations and individuals residing in […]

    Will Aquarium Release 110-Year-Old Lobster Back to Sea?

    Will Aquarium Release 110-Year-Old Lobster Back to Sea?

    By Ashley Palmer Hot on the heels of the Maine State Aquarium‘s acquisition of a 110-year-old lobster named Larry, who was rescued from a restaurant in Florida, PETA sent a letter to the aquarium calling for the old-timer to be released back into the ocean that he had called home for more than a century. […]

    Talking With Wild Bottle Nose Dolphins Near Buck Island

    Talking With Wild Bottle Nose Dolphins Near Buck Island

    While making a documentary, Blue Centennial, with filmmaker Robert Nixon, National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry and world-renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle, my son Finn Kennedy, 18, and his uncle Max impulsively dove from a speeding motorboat into a pod of wild bottle nose dolphins carousing in the bow wave. Three Mammals: Finn Kennedy while swimming with […]