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The red squirrel has been declining in Britain over the last years with only a couple of hot spots . The grey squirrel has taken over due to it being bigger and passing on the squirrel pox virus. Kev Lewis/Flickr The Isle of Anglesey has now become another with all the grey squirrels being culled to leave the Island to the Reds. ( Sciurus vulgaris ) BBC
The size of ships that can traverse the Panama canal will be reduced in september draft will be 39 ft from 39.5ft due to a drought caused by ELNino. This is expected to effect 20% of ships that pass through the canal. This is not the first time this has happened back in 1998 the limit was reduced. More BBC Economic Times
Researches in the United States from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences say that female children of service personnel are at a higher risk of becoming obese that civilian females of that age. Military dependents reported more binge eating that there civilian counter parts, a previous report said that the military children where under more stress than civilian children. For the full story go to Science Daily
The number of spacecraft orbiting Mars has now reached a record of five and NASA has taken steps to beef up its monitoring and communications to ensure that the craft do not come to close to each other.
© EPA/LASZLO CZIKA Russia to protect citizens from genetically modified food In Russia the Duma has passed a first reading of a law to ban the growing of GM plants and animals,except for scientific purposes. The Government is given the right to ban imports of GM goods if there is any adverse effects on humans or the environment Source TASS
Research published in Nature this week points to the fact that pesticide is harming honey bees thus adding to the population decline of the species. Pesticides where subject to a test where bees where given a choice of food one with pesticide in the other without and the bees appeared to prefer the contaminated food.
A collaborator experiment between University of Nottingham, Rothamsted Research and the University of Florida on mosquito's has shown that being bitten could be down to your genes. Mosquito's where given the choice of twins to fly towards by releasing them down a Y shaped tube.This showed that identical twins where more attracted to the mosquito's than the non identical twins . Source Science Daily
Summary of Global Sea Ice Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new study finds. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the equivalent of losing an area of sea ice larger than the state of Maryland every year.