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A British company breeding mosquitoes whose offspring cannot spread malaria is set to start releasing the insects into Djibouti city by the end of the year. Genetically-engineered male mosquitoes ...

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A dog named Manu is helping scientists on Hawai'i island track down an insect threatening the state's palm trees, reported Honolulu Civil Beat. Manu works with the Big Island Invasive Species ...

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix, ...

Police in Wrentham, Massachusetts, are advising residents to keep an eye on their pets after two dogs were killed recently by coyotes in the town, less than an hour's drive from New Bedford. "Within ...