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Insect food?  Public skepticism remains a major hurdle, but here are the sustainability arguments for including them in our diet

Insect food? Public skepticism remains a major hurdle, but here are the sustainability arguments for including them in our diet

IInsects are a nutritious food source that can be produced more sustainably than conventional livestock. Although eating insects is common in many parts of the world, in Western cultures it is more likely to be disgusted. Insect consumption has slowly increased as the benefits have become widely discussed. Over 2,000 edible species have been identified. …

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Large Hadron Collider Beauty releases first dataset to the public

Large Hadron Collider Beauty releases first dataset to the public

Exhibition of LHCb events from 2011 showing a B meson decaying into a pair of muons and antimuons. Credit: CERN The Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment at CERN is the world’s largest experiment in quark flavor physics with an extensive particle physics program. His data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Runs 1 and 2 …

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US Fish and Wildlife Service steps in at DNR to resolve acrimony over logging on public hunting lands

US Fish and Wildlife Service steps in at DNR to resolve acrimony over logging on public hunting lands

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will help train Department of Natural Resources (DNR) employees and monitor the agency’s forest management to resolve the long-running conflict over logging on the hunting lands of acquired with millions of dollars in federal assistance, according to an agreement announced Thursday. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Charlie Wooley …

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John Aberth: Wildlife management should be driven by science, not politics

John Aberth: Wildlife is a valuable public resource. Why do we waste it?

This commentary is from John Aberth, a volunteer Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator who rehabilitates beavers, raptors and other animals at Flint Brook Wildlife Rescue in Roxbury. The news lately has been filled with stories of beavers being hailed as the new “climate change engineers” and “climate solving heroes” for their ability to create drought-tolerant aquifers and …

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Public weighs in on controversial hunting and wildlife bills

Public weighs in on controversial hunting and wildlife bills

One of the bills from the state’s Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee would ban hunters from using dogs to track and kill coyotes. Photo by Brett Sayles via Pexels Three bills from the state Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee are stirring controversy among hunters and animal welfare advocates. In a relatively rare public …

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