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. Daily Edition • July 29, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz! That’s a mouthful, but here’s the gist: The annual event, running through Sunday, calls on individuals and organizations to go out in nature and report any observations of monarch butterflies, milkweed plants, monarch eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalises. The data collected helps scientists learn more about the current state of monarch populations and their host plant, milkweed. Get more info on how…Read more
- This giant dolphin once swam in the Amazon
Daily Edition • March 30, 2024 SUPPORTED BY The winners are in for the 2024 World Nature Photography Awards, with the top prize going to artist Tracey Lund for her action-packed shot of seabirds diving for a meal. She captured the pair of underwater gannets while on vacation in Scotland’s Shetland Islands. “Thousands of gannets were in the sky above us and then started to dive into the sea after locally caught fish,” she explained. “An unbelievable spectacle to witness, let alone photograph....
- New words added to Oxford English Dictionary
Daily Edition • March 29, 2024 SUPPORTED BY The countdown is on: We’re officially 10 days out from April 8’s total solar eclipse. Millions are expected to travel to places within the path of totality, and those places have come up with plenty of unique ways to celebrate the spectacle. The Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, for example, has a three-day festival planned around the eclipse, complete with performances from the Cleveland Orchestra. Learn more about how locales around...
- World’s first nature reserve earns official protections
Daily Edition • March 28, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Are you still interested in receiving Nice News? We haven't seen you in a while. If you're still there, click here to keep receiving Nice News. And the 2024 Cadbury Bunny is … a raccoon! And an Instagram famous one at that. The Hershey Company, which owns Cadbury, announced earlier this week that Louie the Raccoon won the sixth annual Cadbury Bunny tryouts — a first for the species. Owner Jaime Arslan adopted Louie three years ago after he was...