Author: Euronews

Extreme rains in Northern Europe are having an impact on some of the smallest European Union constituents: insects. ADVERTISEMENTHeavy rains and lower temperatures are saturating bee colonies and their habitats in France.In Saint-Selve, southwestern France, one beekeeper says June is meant to be a “honey flow” month – but few hives are filled with the nectar-seeking insects. “Basically we’re supposed to be in a honey flow, so filled up with honey, but there are very few of them,” Dominique Laforce said. The beekeeper said the rains are wetting the flowers to an extent that the bees can’t get inside, “and…

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Two astronauts are stuck in space waiting for the ability to return back to Earth due to technical difficulties, officials said. ADVERTISEMENTTwo astronauts’ return to Earth has been delayed due to technical issues, officials have said. The Boeing spacecraft and NASA’s two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, took off on June 5 and docked at the International Space Station (ISS) the next day.They were supposed to stay for just over a week, until June 14th, to do some testing. A few days into the mission, the crew started investigating five small helium leaks, five failures with the thruster before the craft…

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