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A list of cool animals, with pictures and interesting facts. What are the world’s coolest species? Read on to find out…

What Are The Coolest Animals?

A cool animal might have special abilities (aye-aye, cheetah, immortal jellyfish); it might look cool (maned wolf, narwhal, proboscis monkey); it might be particularly badass (electric eel, honey badger, polar bear); or it might have an amazing lifestyle (arctic tern, wandering albatross, emperor penguin).

In compiling this list, we’ve only included living animals; would the Komodo dragon really have made the grade if Tyrannosaurus rex had been in the running? Snow leopards are cool and all, but are they as cool as American cave lions? (Actually, yes, not many animals are as cool as snow leopards!)

If you want to see cool prehistoric animals, then check out these pages:

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New but Mighty Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production

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Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS. Photo by Alicia Alferman

Earlier this summer the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUIAP) announced a series of new investments that build on their short but impactful history since their inaugural awards in 2020

OUAIP was established in the 2018 Farm Bill and tasked with a wide variety of responsibilities to support the development and success of urban, indoor, and other emerging agricultural practices. These practices are diverse and can include growing efficiently in microlots or inside warehouses, food waste reduction strategies, and community composting. OUAIP implements strategies to ensure their success while fostering community food security through networks of growers, partners, and community members.

While OUAIP is housed within the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS), it works across United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies. …

How needs-based assessments could advance equity in the global stocktake and beyond

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 28 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01826-x

The global stocktake (GST) could both enable and hamper the inclusion of equity. This Comment outlines why equity is central to the GST and the challenges faced in addressing it, as well as the utility of needs-based assessments for advancing equity within the GST and the climate action generally.
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Young people take European governments to court over climate inaction

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Young climate activists took center stage again on Wednesday, as the European Court of Human Rights heard a case brought by six Portuguese youth, ranging in age from 11 to 24, who argued that Europe’s governments aren’t doing enough to prevent climate change from harming them. It is one of the most ambitious legal efforts yet to force action on climate change and, if successful, could have legally binding consequences.

“We’ve had a packed court,” said Gearóid Ó’Cuinn, director of Global Legal Action Network, or GLAN, a human rights nonprofit that is supporting the Portuguese applicants. In the statement, he also noted that there were more than 80 lawyers representing 32 countries at the hearing, including all European Union member states, along with the United Kingdom, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey.

The young people are suing because they argue that …

Centipede Facts – Your Complete Guide To Centipedes

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Centipede facts, pictures and information. Find out exactly what a centipede is, what centipedes eat, where they’re found, and much more…

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What Is a Centipede?

A centipede is an invertebrate predator in the class Chilopoda. A centipede has a long, segmented body with one pair of legs per segment (unlike a millipede, which has two pairs of legs per segment).…

Release: Crop Insurance Bill Would Level the Playing Field, Save Taxpayers Billions

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Laura Zaks

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net

Tel. 347.563.6408

Release: Crop Insurance Bills Would Level the Playing Field, Save Taxpayers Billions

Washington, DC, September 26, 2023 – Today, the Assisting Family Farmers Through Insurance Reform Measures Act, or the AFFIRM Act, was introduced by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3). This bill presents important reforms to improve the federal crop insurance program to better serve U.S. farmers equitably and use taxpayer dollars more efficiently.

“The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) has long supported provisions that will level the playing field for small, beginning, and diversified farms by introducing common-sense data transparency, payment limits, and means tests to the federal crop insurance program,” says Billy Hackett, NSAC Policy Specialist. “While private crop insurance companies and the largest, highest-income commodity farms benefit from an artificial, taxpayer-funded profit guarantee,

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Observations of grounding zones are the missing key to understand ice melt in Antarctica

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 21 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01819-w

Ice melt processes that take place at the ice–ocean boundary of Greenland and Antarctic glaciers play a pivotal role in their evolution and contribution to sea-level rise, but widespread observations in these regions are lacking. A major observational initiative will be necessary to drastically reduce uncertainties in projections and better prepare society for sea-level rise.
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Butterfly Life Cycle Explained With Pictures & Facts On All 4 Stages

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An explanation of the butterfly life cycle, with pictures and facts.

Introduction

Butterflies aren’t born as the large-winged, brightly-colored insects we see in our gardens and parks. Instead, the life cycle of a butterfly involves four separate stages, during which the bodies of these familiar insects undergo a remarkable change known as metamorphosis.

Although many insects have the same four-stage life cycle as butterflies, the emergence of an adult butterfly from its chrysalis is one of the most spectacular examples of this process.

(Further down the page we compare the life cycle of a butterfly with that of other insect groups.)

Page Contents

Life Cycle Of A Butterfly
The Stages Of The Butterfly Life Cycle In Detail
Eggs
Larvae
Pupae
Imago
Complete Metamorphosis (Holometabolism)
Do All Butterflies Have The Same Life Cycle?
Butterfly vs Moth Life Cycle
Incomplete

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