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A California solar plant is trying to coexist with tortoises, squirrels, owls, bumblebees, and Joshua trees, but the desert wildlife is not making it easy

A California solar plant is trying to coexist with tortoises, squirrels, owls, bumblebees, and Joshua trees, but the desert ...
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Biologists in Collier County pulled 8,080 pounds of Burmese pythons from 200 square miles of Everglades in one season, and the 4,100 eggs they also removed matter be…

Florida biologists set a record removing 177 Burmese pythons totaling 8,080 pounds from the Everglades in one season, plus ...
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Vultures in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia provide sanitation and other services worth about 1.8 billion dollars a year, and India’s vulture collapse cost an estimated 69 ...

BirdLife International calculated that vultures do $1.8 billion in free ecosystem work across southern Africa each year. India found out what losing them ...
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Scientists found over 70 species “hiding in plain sight” inside museum drawers that had been locked shut for decades

Discover over 70 new species identified in museum collections, showcasing Earth's hidden biodiversity and the importance of ...
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Every year on Florida’s beaches, more than 100,000 sea turtle hatchlings crawl the wrong way, and the blue glow of ordinary white LED bulbs is what points them inland

America switched roughly 4 billion sockets to LED bulbs to save energy, but the blue-rich light they cast into the night is ...
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A climber sealed herself 230 feet under a Spanish mountain to spend 500 days underground, and by day 65 she had lost all track of time

A climber lived 230 feet underground for 500 days and lost her sense of time on day 65. Here's what that reveals about how ...
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Starfish in Washington began writhing, losing their arms, and turning into “sea sunflowers” after a rare bacterium swept through the water

Researchers identified the bacterium behind Sea Star Wasting Disease, ending a search for the cause of one of the largest marine wildlife epidemics in history.
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On Oregon’s Leaburg Canal, a group of beavers broke into a 100-year-old hydroelectric dam and built another one for themselves until engineers had to find …

A group of beavers repeatedly built dams inside Oregon's Leaburg Canal, creating enough risk to a high-hazard waterway that ...
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An eyeless “demon” fish hid inside an Alabama cave for 30 years without anyone noticing, and scientists have finally found it

An eyeless “demon” fish hid inside an Alabama cave for 30 years without anyone noticing, and scientists have finally found it ...
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A solar farm in Minnesota brought in 2,000 sheep and a guard donkey after overgrown vegetation blocked the panels and stopped them from generating power

A solar farm in Minnesota brought in 2,000 sheep and a guard donkey after overgrown vegetation blocked the panels and stopped ...
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Kitchens across America pour out 2 million gallons of used cooking oil every day, and the barrel a restaurant once paid somebody to haul away has become a locked tan…

A busy kitchen fills a tank in a couple of weeks, and one tanker route can empty a hundred of them in a day. Multiply that ...
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Biologists needed 6 years to name the bumpy snailfish an underwater robot filmed at 10,722 feet, and that single encounter off California is still the only confirmed sighti…

An ROV robot dove 10,000 feet into Monterey Canyon and found a bumpy pink creature—one of 3 entirely new deep-sea species ...