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Bee populations in the US are showing signs of recovery, with colonies increasing nationally by 14% and as much as 73% in one state, in the past year. MyModernMet

Trials of the Oxford vaccine underway in Brazil are showing promise. To date, at least 5,000 volunteers have been administered the drug - or a placebo drug - and have not presented any serious adverse reactions. Rio Times

Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, was awarded a gold medal from the PDSA, a British veterinary charity, for his work over the past seven years leading to the detection of 39 landmines and 28 unexploded items and clearing an area of more than 20 soccer fields in the process. https://www.vice.com/en/article/935pmp/this-hero-rat-is-saving-cambodia-one-landmine-at-a-time

Venom from honeybees has been found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially ground-breaking new Australian research. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-01/new-aus-research-finds-honey-bee-venom-kills-breast-cancer-cells/12618064

The iconic Tasmanian devil has just been returned to mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tasmanian-devils-comeback-mainland-australia/

Scientists create ‘Super Enzyme’ that eats Plastic six times faster than previous Enzymes https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-super-enzyme-has-been-created-to-breakdown-plastic-three-times-fast/

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