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©  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

Video Update of the Panama canal expansion the largest project on the canal since it was first Built.

This very unusual and dramatic image was taken by  J ohn Bailey in Vero Beach on April 6th The  original  story is on National Geographic  

 A United Kingdom company has come up with a plan to reseed the planets forests using drones. The site would first be mapped and a course for a drone to fly at about 6-9 feet of the ground firing seeds into the ground using compressed air.   Source     BioCarbon Engineering           Discovery