October 23, 2026
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Monarch Butterflies: Virginia woman began planting flowers in a neglected alley in Roanoke; it became a stopover for Monarch butterflies, inspiring neighbours to contribute plants and create a pollinator habitat: How an ordinary urban space became an ecological refuge

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Most back alleys are places we walk through quickly, past the bins and weeds, without a second look. In Roanoke, Virginia, one woman saw something else. According to the WDBJ7, Jean Quade started planting flowers in a neglected alley behind her neighbours’ homes, and what began as a small project has become an official Monarch…

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Since 2018, Europe’s forests have lost 46% more biomass per hectare each year; drought and bark beetles are weakening a carbon sink that stored 72% less CO2 in 2020–2022

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Europe’s forests are losing biomass at a rate scientists describe as unprecedented. A new satellite-based study has found that forests across the continent have lost, on average, 46% more aboveground biomass per hectare each year since 2018 than they did during the previous three decades.The change is significant because forest biomass represents stored carbon. When…

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