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Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

The Palm Springs City Council on Thursday reviewed two recent hot-button approvals from the citys planning commission, and allowed the two projects — a cannabis facility expansion and a housing development in endangered beetle territory — to move forward.  At councilmember request, the council reviewed the planning commissions approval of the expansion of the Kings Garden cannabis cultivation facility from 37,787 square feet to 212,027 square feet, as well as the approval of an 80-unit...

Green June beetle in my vegetable garden. After a hard, summer rain, I headed out to my garden early to pick vegetables. By midsummer it was a bit of a jungle; and I had charged well into the tangle of tomato plants before I heard and saw hundreds of huge, green June beetles swarming and buzzing all around me! My first response was to duck-and-cover; but I quickly realized that to the June beetles, I was nothing more than a party pooper – getting in the way of their frantic eating, mating, an...