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• Industry and campaigners spar over S.Africa's carbon tax July 17, 2019
  South Africa's new carbon tax has provoked a storm of criticism from environmental campaigners who say it is too weak—and from industry that predicts it will cause mass job losses.
• New Zealand cops nab penguin prowlers in sushi stall July 17, 2019
  A pair of New Zealand penguins that broke into a sushi stall at Wellington's busiest railway station have been returned to their natural habitat.
• 'Let's see them aliens': 1.3 mn people vow to storm classified US base July 17, 2019
  For more than a century, scientists have scoured the known universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, an endeavor that has thus far proved fruitless—unless you believe the US government is hiding aliens at a remote base in Nevada.
• Iceland tries to bring back trees razed by the Vikings July 17, 2019
  Before being colonised by the Vikings, Iceland was lush with forests but the fearsome warriors razed everything to the ground and the nation is now struggling to reforest the island.
• Telescope viewing suspended as protesters block Hawaii road July 17, 2019
  Astronomers have indefinitely stopped looking through 13 existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii while protesters block the road downslope in an attempt to prevent the construction of a giant new observatory.
• Australian finds message in a bottle written 50 years ago July 17, 2019
  A fisherman man said on Wednesday he was looking for the author of a message in a bottle found off the southern Australian coast 50 years after it was written.
• Avian malaria behind drastic decline of London's iconic sparrow? July 17, 2019
  London's house sparrows (Passer domesticus) have plummeted by 71% since 1995, with new research suggesting avian malaria could be to blame.
• Limits on pot fishing can result in win-win for fishermen and marine wildlife July 17, 2019
  Restricting the amount of inshore potting for crab and lobster within marine protected areas (MPAs) can generate a "win-win" for both fishermen and the marine environment, according to the first major study exploring the issue.
• Timing is everything for the mutualistic relationship between ants and acacias July 17, 2019
  In the 1960s, Penn biologist Dan Janzen, as part of earning his Ph.D., re-described what has become a classic example of biological mutualism: the obligate relationship between acacia-ants and ant-acacia trees. The acacia trees produce specialized structures to shelter and feed the ant colony, and the ants, in turn, defend the tree against herbivores.
• Researchers track how cats' weights change over time July 17, 2019
  Until now, pet owners and veterinarians didn't know for sure. Now University of Guelph researchers have become the first to access data on more than 19 million cats to get a picture of typical weight gain and loss over their lifetimes.