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Yerevan biodiversity summit ends with a plan to change course, but funding stays largely unresolved
After two weeks of difficult talks, nearly 200 countries agreed overnight from Friday to Saturday on a midterm review and on finance, but thorny issues have been pushed to the next summit.
5 sources · La Libre, BBC, RFI +Health
Leuven sewage flagged a parvovirus wave a year before the official alert, thanks to a broad virus scan
KU Leuven researchers found 339 virus species in two and a half years of wastewater with a single technique, and now want to test it at other treatment plants.
3 sources · VRT NWS, KU Leuven, Nature WaterAnimals
Shearwaters drift slightly off course when their internal clock falls behind the sun
Twenty years of GPS data from more than a thousand seabirds show that rapid flights across lines of longitude throw off their sun compass, according to a University of Oxford study.
3 sources · The Guardian, NPR, EurekAlert