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By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter at Leeds Festival, Edited by Vinuri Randula Silva, IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES Arctic Monkeys slipped a new tune in among some old favourites during a career-spanning headline set to close Leeds Festival on Sunday evening. "Hello Leeds, you're looking well," smiled singer Alex Turner, to legions of adoring fans in their home county. Their gigs at Reading and Leeds marked their first in the UK for four years. Fellow Sheffield co-headliners Bring Me the Horizon brought out Doncastrian Yungblud as Branham Park was turned into a cathedral of Yorkshire music. Yorkshire rocks After rap had reigned supreme on Saturday, Sunday was all about rock 'n' roll (baby) and the return of the prodigal sons drew the biggest crowd of the whole weekend by some distance. In the middle of a set that plucked from old indie sleaze bangers and newer slick rock-pop beats at will, from their six number one albums, Turner and co also performed the unrelease

  From Earth Unreal & Wikipedia By – Vinuri Randula Silva Dactylotum bicolor , also known as the  rainbow grasshopper ,  painted grasshopper , or the  barber pole grasshopper , is a species of  grasshopper  in the  family   Acrididae . It is native to the United States, Canada and northern Mexico and exhibits  aposematism  (warning coloration). It was  first described  by the German entomologist  Toussaint de Charpentier  in 1843. Dactylotum bicolor  grows to an average length of about 20 mm (0.8 in) for males and 35 mm (1.4 in) for females. It is mainly black with distinctive reddish and yellowish markings, a pale green  prothorax  and pale green wing pads. The tibia of the hind leg bears six to eight spines. This species does not develop wings and is unable to fly. The adults feed on a wide variety of vegetation, often voraciously, but the nymphs often feed exclusively on a single species within the region.

  by  Abhishyant Kidangoor , Edited by Amal Udawatta, The use of audio to study, monitor, detect and conserve species has gained popularity in recent years. Passive acoustic monitoring has been found to be more efficient than traditional camera traps; however, the use of audio can be data-heavy and laborious to pore through. Technological developments such as artificial intelligence have made audio analysis easier, but conservationists say gaps still exist. Think Sonoma County, and the picturesque valley and vineyards come to mind. But the locale is also home to rich and incredible biodiversity. Soundscapes to Landscapes, a biodiversity monitoring initiative in the county, aims to document just that. Over the past five years, from mid-spring to late summer here in California wine country, the initiative collected a massive amount of sound data by placing acoustic recorders in 1,300 locations in the county. The project, run by Sonoma State University, conservation NGO Point Blue Conserv

From - Mangabay Magazine, By -  Cassie Freund, Scientists have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can distinguish healthy coral reefs from less healthy ones by the soundscape in the ecosystem. Previous studies had established that the sounds of life in a successfully recovered reef are similar to those from a healthy reef, but parsing all the acoustic data was slow and labor-intensive. The new algorithm has been hailed as “an important milestone” for efficiently processing acoustic data to answer the basic question of how to determine the progress of a reef restoration program. Researchers say follow-up work is still needed, including to check whether the algorithm, tested in the Pacific Coral Triangle, also works in reefs in other parts of the world. Healthy coral reefs, with their brightly colored corals and bustling schools of fish, are easy to spot underwater. New research into the marine soundscapes of reefs in the Sangkarang Archipelago in Sulawesi, Indonesia, shows they