The new Coordination Office for Bee Health at Freie Universität Berlin aims to support hobby beekeepers, honeybees, and official veterinarians as beekeeping becomes a popular pastime in the city.
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster and 35 years after Chernobyl: Germany is making a fresh attempt to find a repository for high-level radioactive waste
Buzz off! Bees huddle together in the winter months to keep warm – and don’t want to be disturbed. Beekeepers have a much lower workload during the winter.
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Silent prayer. On March 11, 2020, large numbers of people gathered at a memorial in Hibiya Park in Tokyo to commemorate the thousands of victims of the 2011 tsunami in eastern Japan that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
By the Thames. Blackfriars Bridge by William Marlow (1770–1772). The bridge was completed in 1769. Over time, the mixture of salt and pollution in the river badly damaged its limestone arches.
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