A convenience store is a small store or shop. They are often located alongside busy roads, or at gas/petrol stations. This can take the form of gas stations supplementing their income with retail outlets, or convenience stores adding gas to the list of goods that they offer. Railway stations also often have convenience stores. They are also frequently located in densely-populated urban neighborhoods.

European Union environmental officials have determined that two kinds of genetically modified corn could harm butterflies, affect food chains and disturb life in rivers and streams, and they have proposed a ban on the sale of the seeds, which are made by DuPont Pioneer, Dow Agrosciences and Syngenta.

Scottish Heritage report: 74% of events that usually happen in the summer, such as wild birds laying eggs, emergence of aphids or butterflies, and flowering of plants, showed signs of happening earlier in the year due to climate change. The different rates of change in species could mean that food chains may become out of balance.