Info-Overdose

Urban beekeeping whizzed into the world of fashionable green back in June. At that time, Brian wrote over at TreeHuggerthat prospective beekeepers have been fighting to have a ban on urban beekeeping lifted in New York City. Back in 1999, the Giuliani Administration added bees to the list of animals prohibited within the city. The list [...]

“There is a holocaust happening. Right now,” writesJeff Corwin, author of 100 Heartbeats, in the Los Angeles Times. “And it’s not confined to one nation or even one region. It is a global crisis. Species are going extinct en masse.” Corwin goes on to explain: “Every 20 minutes we lose an animal species. If this rate continues, by [...]

December 7, 2009—A spectacled bear named Dolores (pictured) is sporting an unconventional look after losing almost all her hair. Since 2007 the female spectacled bear and two of her female kin at Germany’s Zoo Leipzig have been going bald—baffling experts. Zoo experts are working to cure the bears’ non-life-threatening condition, zoo curator Gerd Noeltzhold told the BBC. Spectacled bears—also called Andean [...]

Here’s one way to get back at your sibling: Release a deadly odor. Honeybee researchers have discovered the first example of a pheromone that shortens the lifespan of other family members — in this case, older sisters. “Just one little sniff can change your life,” said biologist Gro Amdam of Arizona State University, co-author of a [...]