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Angry Farmers Are Reshaping Europe

March 31, 2024Roger Cohen and Ivor PrickettComments Off on Angry Farmers Are Reshaping Europe

Farm protests are changing not only Europe’s food system but also its politics, as the far right senses an opportunity.

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Locust Swarms Could Expand Their Range in a Hotter, Stormier World

February 14, 2024RAYMOND ZHONGComments Off on Locust Swarms Could Expand Their Range in a Hotter, Stormier World

The crop-devouring pests love arid conditions and the occasional downpour. Global warming is offering more of both.

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A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon

December 22, 2023December 26, 2023Hisako Ueno and Yan ZhuangComments Off on A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon

The arrest of the 50-year-old driver highlighted the strict law in Japan against harming the birds, even if they take over balconies or get in the way of traffic.

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Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease

November 30, 2023December 1, 2023Stephanie NolenComments Off on Climate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease

The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness.

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As Bedbug Anxiety Spreads to Asia Exterminators Turn Profits

November 18, 2023November 18, 2023Mike Ives and Amy Chang ChienComments Off on As Bedbug Anxiety Spreads to Asia Exterminators Turn Profits

Outbreaks in France and South Korea have people across Asia on high alert for bedbugs. Exterminators in the region say business is booming.

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Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block

November 12, 2023November 14, 2023NATALIE ANGIERComments Off on Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.

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In Paris, Bedbugs and Fear of Bedbugs

October 12, 2023October 12, 2023CATHERINE PORTERComments Off on In Paris, Bedbugs and Fear of Bedbugs

Exterminators in France are playing the role of therapist to an anxious post-pandemic population that they say is panicking over recent bedbug outbreaks.

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Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress

September 29, 2023September 29, 2023Stephanie Nolen and Malin FezehaiComments Off on Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress

Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.

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An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa

September 29, 2023October 1, 2023Stephanie Nolen and Tiksa NegeriComments Off on An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa

A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.

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For France, American Vines Still Mean Sour Grapes

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021NORIMITSU ONISHIComments Off on For France, American Vines Still Mean Sour Grapes

French authorities have tried to outlaw hardy American hybrids for 87 years. But climate change and the natural wine movement are giving renegade winemakers a lift.

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