Early tests suggest 2-heptanone may also find a role in humans as a local anaesthetic.

BBC: Honey-bees found to have bite that stuns

Conservationists are pushing government and park officials to ensure animals, humans and the local environment are better protected.

CNN: The Gathering: Sri Lanka's great elephant migration

Institutional Review Boards, the local bodies that check research on humans and are the main overseers of such research, are swamped with work, sometimes examining hundreds of proposals a year.

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As humans we have the ability to adapt to our local surroundings to meet our needs.

BBC: Why the Moon is getting further away from Earth

Their successful completion of the docking mission at 12:47 pm local time on Sunday means China is fully capable of transferring humans and cargo to an orbiter in space much like the Americans, only the Americans have abandoned further work in this area beyond the current International Space Station expedition which ends next month.

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At the global level, The Ramsar Convention has called for local to national governments to recognise wetlands as the primary sources from which humans derive water and that they are a major and critical component of the water cycle that keeps us supplied with water.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The Natural Sciences Sector contributed expertise and priorities from its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, which focuses on the diverse ways that humans know and interact with the natural world.

UNESCO: CULTURE