Mexico’s monarch butterfly population has increased by 64%
Every fall, millions of monarchs migrate nearly 3,000 miles from Canada, across the U.S., to the forests of western Mexico. Now, new figures from the World Wildlife Fund show that the area occupied by monarchs grew to 7.24 acres of forest, a 64% increase from the 4.42 acres the previous winter and the most extensive coverage since 2018.
Scientists say the remarkable increase offers a glimmer of hope for the insect, which has been considered at risk of extinction. It’s also proof that conservation efforts have been working.
There’s also been a significant reduction in forest degradation within their critical winter habitat.
Why is this good news? Habitat loss from deforestation, the climate crisis, and the use of herbicides have disrupted the monarchs’ breeding and migratory patterns, and led their numbers to plummet in the past three decades, declining by more than 80% since the 1990s. This is a sign that things are headed in a better direction.
11-year-old designs color-changing glasses to help others with dyslexia
Millie, an 11-year-old girl from Greater Manchester, has long struggled with dyslexia, a learning disorder that gives her headaches and causes words to move on the page as she reads.
Inspired by her own experience, she created new color-changing glasses designed to help people read more comfortably and reduce visual stress.
Her idea, first imagined at age eight, recently stood out among more than 70,000 entries to win a major engineering competition. Millie hopes to secure enough funding to bring the glasses to market one day.
“I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border.”
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