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Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting.

To protect mangroves, some Kenyans combat logging with hidden beehives

As part of a local conservation effort, beehives dot a section of coastline in Mombasa to try to deter people who chop mangroves for firewood or home construction.

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Listen: CT Gov. Dannel Malloy's State Of The State Address

Here is the full transcript of Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy's State of the State address delivered on January 4, 2017.Mr. President, Mr. Speaker,…

Members Of Schenectady City Council Seek More Info On Oversight Board Report

As a state mandated committee reviews police policies and procedures in Schenectady, the city’s existing Civilian Police Review Board is suggesting its…

As mother and daughter, Carmen and Gisele Grayson thought their DNA ancestry tests would be very similar. Boy were they surprised.

My Grandmother Was Italian. Why Aren't My Genes Italian?

Popular DNA ancestry tests don't always find what people expect. That is because of how DNA rearranges itself when egg meets sperm — and the quirks of genetic databases.

One Of The Nation's Biggest Urban Forests Isn't Where You'd Expect

Running all the way through Dallas is a 6,000-acre stretch of massive oaks, bubbling springs and broad meadows. But the river running through it has many of the issues faced by other urban waterways.

#SportsReport: CTE Research Finds Evidence Of Disease In 90% Of Donated NFL Brains

NFL:Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease in almost 90 percent of them, from athletes in the NFL down to high school.…

President Obama clasps hands with Sen. Mark Warner (left), D-Va., and Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine during a campaign stop Friday in Virginia Beach, Va.

Why New Swing State Of Virginia May Determine Presidency

President Obama is on a two-day Virginia campaign swing, the airwaves are awash in campaign ads, and there's a veritable who-has-more-campaign-offices arms race under way. It's a situation that astounds lifelong Virginians. Says one political analyst: "It's almost the new Ohio."

Confounding and confusing events 2/14/22

The situation in the Ukraine continues to boil with the Biden administration predicting that an invasion could come at any time. Senator John Barrasso, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, indicated in his view that this would send a very poor signal to other US adversaries like China and Iran opening the door to invasions of Taiwan and for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Those events are very troubling, and should be of significant concern to all of us.

Damage is seen at Brazil's Congress one day after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília. The attack was planned by far-right groups on social media, according to Brazilian media and analysts.

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

The similarities are deep: In addition to aiming to subvert an election, some of the same U.S. voices that amplify former President Donald Trump are echoing Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Emergency teams search in the rubble for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Monday.

More than 3,400 people have died after earthquakes hammer Turkey and Syria

A powerful earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, killing more than 3,400 people and injuring thousands more. Hundreds of families are still trapped.

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