Invasive species of Asian mussels have met their match in Alberta's riverine sniffer dogs.

These K9 conservationists have been employed by the provincial government for over a decade to help catch zebra and golden mussels from colonizing the rivers and lakes of Alberta.

Hilo, Jane, and Winnie, 2 black labs and a black-lab cross, are part of the paws-on-the-ground response at boat inspection stations across the province. It's now Alberta law that any watercraft must stop at an inspection station whether they are coming or going, and these patrol pooches are trained to smell the odor of developing mussel larvae which can be so small as to be detectable only by the faint feeling like sandpaper on the sides of boats or docks.

"The dogs are really complementing that human inspection and giving us kind of a better idea about what could be on that boat," said Cindy Sawchuk, the leader for the province's Aquatic Invasive Species Operations and Conservation Canine Program.

Sawchuk told the Canadian Press that golden mussels recently established themselves in California,

125 years ago today, the beloved American jazz trumpeter, composer, and singer Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans. Nicknamed Satchmo, or Pops, Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in jazz, with a trail-blazing career that spanned more than five decades. Take a moment to listen to "What a Wonderful World"… (1901)

With his instantly recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong broke ground as he demonstrated great dexterity as an improvisational crooner and scat singer, bending the lyrics and melody to make any song more expressive.

Armstrong kept up his busy tour schedule until a few years before his death in 1971—and acted in cameo film roles, including his 1964 Grammy Award-winning vocal performance in Hello, Dolly!, co-starring Barbara Streisand.

One of his most memorable songs, What a Wonderful World, epitomizes the man, of whom Duke Ellington said, "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way."

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• Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, was born—the

In a story that shows how it's never too late to learn, a man in the UK has graduated from nursing school at 64.

His education actually saw the Nigerian immigrant, who is a father of 5, studying alongside his son, who was attending the very same university.

John Adesoye graduated with a degree in nursing from the University of West England after completing a 2-year nurse associate program, and a 2 year nurse apprenticeship program, at the National Health Services Foundation Trust in Bristol.

John grew up in a poor farming family in Nigeria and developed a keen interest in electronics, having been fascinated as a child with how his family's radio worked. He later lived in Greece, working as an electronics technician and servicing electronic equipment, and then moved to the UK.

The father-of-5, who now lives in Bristol, has secured a nursing role at Southmead Hospital where he had completed his apprenticeship.

"I didn't think I'd ever go to university, to be honest. But I have passion for learning," Mr. Adesoye said in a press

In 2022, the longest "predator exclusion fence" anywhere in the Pacific was completed on Kauai, encircling 168 acres of prime seabird nesting habitat.

The nesting birds include endangered species that were under constant threat of ravaging feral cats and pig before the 11,200-foot-long fence was raised.

Now, 4 years later, these seabirds are following their ancestral instincts and raising their chicks just meters away from nest sites that, 5 years before, would have double as their grave sites.

Originally developed on New Zealand, a predator exclusion fence (PEF) is no mean fence. It was designed to block passage of the 4 most deadly invasive mammalian predators across the Pacific.

It's too high for a cat or fox to jump over, is capped with a slick, claw-proof hood to prevent cats from climbing over, includes a combination rubber mat and skirt multiple inches below the ground to prevent pigs burrowing under, and boasts a metal mesh no teeth can chew through, yet also so fine that no rat can slide through it. The fence cost $1.7 million.

A similar

120 years ago today, American actor, director, and screenwriter John Huston, was born. He also wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 film classics he directed, like The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits, and The Man Who Would Be King. WATCH his amusing acceptance speech at his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony… (1906)

During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.

An accomplished painter, Huston symbolized "intellect, charm and physical grace" within the film industry, said producer George Stevens, Jr. "He was the most charismatic of the directors I knew, speaking with a soothing, melodic voice that was unique to him." Among his friends were Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the

In what must rank as one of the rarer fossil assemblages ever discovered, an incredible moment where the whole top-third of the Cretaceous era marine food chain was being sorted out has been presented by scientists.

Following 7 years of study, the jumble of bones is nothing less than the remains of a flying reptile known as a pterosaur lodged inside the stomach of an ichthyosaur—a large and widely-dispersed, versatile marine predator.

The ichthyosaur's body was determined to have been mangled by something even larger—likely a pliosaur, and perhaps even Kronosaurus queenslandicus, the largest pliosaurid known to have lived, and as the species name suggests, was first discovered in the Australian state of Queensland, where the fossil jumble was found.

"[It is] a marine reptile crime scene, and it did take a bit of working out to tell that story," Dr. Matt White, a paleontologist at the University of New England in Australia and lead author of the study presenting the discovery, tells ABC News Down Under.

The story of

Grady-White Boats market their vessels as the "finest boats ever crafted" which is quite the statement.

GNN can't comment on boat quality, but they certainly don't make humans like Grady-White's ex-CEO much anymore.

For 58 years, Eddie Smith Jr. worked 80-100 hour workweeks to salvage the near-bankrupt boat builder and turn it into a 9-figure revenue generator that will now power philanthropy in perpetuity.

That's because Smith turned down multiple offers around half a billion dollars in order to pass controlling stakes in Grady-White Boats to a "purpose trust" that will operate it according to his values and convert its bottom line into community service, conservation, and other philanthropic causes.

Profiled by Preston Foore at Fortune Magazine, Smith said he was inspired by entrepreneurs like Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, who also turned the brand into a financial engine for conservation and climate change prevention.

"I just think that those of us that are fortunate enough to be in a position to help others…It's really a

New HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest levels in more than 30 years, a special report released by UNAIDS shows.

Released in time for the 26th International AIDS Conference taking place in Rio de Janeiro, it also showed that 7 countries: Benin, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Nepal, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe, achieved an almost 80% reduction in new infections since 2010.

It further showed that 11 countries achieved the "95-95-95" treatment targets, meaning that 95% of all people living with HIV know their status, 95% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection are accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART), 95% of all people accessing ART are virally suppressed.

"The world is on the cusp of an HIV prevention revolution in prevention medicines which offer close to vaccine like protection against HIV," UNAIDS wrote in a statement.

"Monthly and six-month injections are slowly trickling into the market, and monthly pills are in late-stage trials. What is coming to market and in the pipeline is extraordinary."

Other positive news in the report shows that Brazil has increased the number

Two famously toxic plants—known also to treat pain, malaria, cancer, and pests—may have had those medicinal properties synthesized in a lab for the first time.

The researchers behind the discovery believe "plants are the best chemists"—and their breakthrough demonstrates that next-generation drugs don't need to come from chemists' inventions.

Centered on the plants wolfsbane and larkspur, the discovery comes about through a collaboration between scientists at Michigan State University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, and is published in the journal Molecular Plant.

"These plants have been used in different forms of medicine throughout the world for thousands of years," said MSU alum Garret Miller, co-first author of the paper and now an assistant professor of biotechnology at University of Michigan-Flint.

"We know they interreact with our bodies in so many ways, and understanding how to create them can help provide totally new routes of testing."

"Plants are the best chemists around, upgrading their arsenal of natural compounds over millions of years to help them survive," said Björn Hamberger, study author an

100 years ago today, American Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Called "The Queen of the Waves," she was an Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in 5 events for which she received a ticker-tape parade on her return from the games in Paris in 1924. In 1925, the Women's Swimming Association sponsored Helen Wainwright and Ederle in an attempt at swimming across the English Channel. Helen Wainwright cancelled due to an injury, but Ederle decided to try the crossing on her own. READ how it happened… (1926)

Ederle received a contract from both the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune that paid her expenses and provided her with a modest salary as she trained for the swim in New York City.

Approximately 1 year after an earlier, disqualified attempt, Ederle swam the channel in 14 hours and 34 minutes, beating the fastest male channel swim time by 1 minute short of 2 hours.

She started at Cap Gris-Nez in France at 07:08 am on August 6th, 1926, and came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, having swum the equivalent of 35 miles due

A company which learned that Singapore's recycling rates have "plateaued" around 11% is deploying over 100 refill machines for cleaning products around the city.

Reducing the cost of packaging has allowed the household product manufacturer Lam Soon to offer their Bio-Home line of goods at a 30% discount if filled up at the vending machine-style refill stations.

According to Lam Soon, in a report on the stations published in the Mothership, the national recycling rate in the city-state has plateaued at about 11% of waste—far from the government's goal of 70% by 2030.

"Upstream" solutions—this is, changes in the supply chain before things become waste—are needed to cross the plateau, and Lam Soon, which manufacturers a variety of biodegradable home products including laundry detergent, dishwasher liquid, and floor cleaner, felt stocking the refill stations rather than store shelves would allow them to eliminate the opportunity for bottles to even become waste in the first place.

Because there's no bottle or packaging, prices can be cut, while consumers can use their own, larger containers, over and over again. Indeed prices