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The role of Australia’s honey bees to our ecosystems and daily lives

It was World Bee Day on Saturday 20 May 2023, and organisations are spreading awareness and knowledge of the intrinsic role of bees in our environments and everyday lives.    Around 75 percent of the world’s crops – which produce fruits and other seeds for human consumption – depend, at least in part, on pollinators including …

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Drones the latest weapon being used to combat the spike in ghost nets across NT coastline

In a bid to help clear the Gulf of Carpentaria of marine debris, Australian researchers will undertake a project using drones and artificial intelligence software routines to quantify the volume of marine debris from remote and difficult to access coastlines.  Researchers at Charles Darwin University (CDU) say ghost nets are abandoned, lost or discarded fishing …

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