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Climate change: Longer, warmer summers could increase risk of mosquitoes carrying ‘fatal diseases’ in the UK, experts say | Science & Tech News
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Increasingly long and hot summers are raising the risk of disease-carrying mosquitoes becoming established in Britain, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned. The tiger mosquito, which transmits several fatal “tropical” diseases, has already spread to 13 countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) since first becoming established in Italy in 1990. Paris last…
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This summer’s heatwave could have been bad for British bumblebees | Science & Tech News
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This summer’s heatwave could have been bad for British bumblebees, according to new analysis that studied long-dead collections of bees held in museums. Bumblebees have endured nearly a century of stress, possibly due to hotter, wetter conditions the research shows, but new DNA techniques may help focus future conservation efforts. Researchers from Imperial College London…