Biology

Bulgarian beekeepers will stage a protest in front of the Parliament building in Sofia at 1 p.m. on Wednesday over a set of proposed amendments to the Beekeeping Act.

The changes were backed by MPs from center-right party Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) and nationalist party the Patriotic Front, according to reports of Darik radio.

About half of live dolphins caught in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji were exported to China and other countries despite global criticism of the hunting technique used, a news report has said.

The so-called "drive hunt" method has been criticized overseas as cruel and Japanese zoos and aquariums were recently forced to vow not to buy animals caught with the controversial fishing.

Fashion design graduate Birce Özkan's 'The Fall' dress loses its fabric panels over time, like a deciduous tree shedding its leaves, architecture and design magazine dezeen.com reported on June 3.

As of next year, Romania will have a National Catalogue of Virgin and Quasi-Virgin Forests, produced and supported by World Wide Fund (WWF) Romania, director of the environmental organization Csibi Magor told AGERPRES.

Sleepless nights can cause dark circles and anxiety, but now researchers at the University of California Berkeley have found that lack of sleep can cause memory-robbing proteins to build up in the brain. These type of proteins could build up in the long-term and trigger Alzheimer’s disease, say scientists.

Doctors are searching for the cause of death of three siblings in four months at their house in the eastern province of Kars, with the parents fearing for the life of their only surviving child.

Excavation work has begun in the Ahlat Seljuk graveyard, considered the "Orkhon Inscriptions of Anatolia," in the eastern province of Bitlis. It is known as the world's largest Turkish-Islam graveyard. 

The site has 8,203 gravestones, the tallest of which are some 4.5 meters, and many are artifacts decorated with inscriptions and motifs. 

Customs officials at Bulgaria's Danube Bridge 2 checkpoint in Vidin, at the border with Romania, have seized nearly 15,000 vials marked as containing anabolic steroids being smuggled in a Slovak-registered van.

The vehicle carried packages of dog food to Slovakia, according to the cargo manifest. The starting point of the trip was not disclosed.

The conservation group WWF Hellas on Wednesday leveled heavy criticism against the government, and in particular against Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis for ?backtracking? on environmental protection.

Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique?s elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said on May 26.

A Mozambique government-backed survey showed a dramatic 48 percent decline in elephant numbers from just over 20,000 to an estimated 10,300, the WCS said in a statement.