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A drone over Lake Huron caught nearly 4 million gizzard shad swarming a nuclear plant’s warm water, and the fish city that looked so alive was a mass grave in the ma…

Thousands of fish pack the warm outflow of Bruce Nuclear on Lake Huron, but scientists say the "fish city" that dazzled a ...
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Water from 43 sites in eastern Tennessee went through a test rebuilt from museum specimens after a failed freezer erased the last usable tissue, and 3 of those sample…

A bottle of Clinch River water held the DNA of a fish no one had physically caught in decades. Here's what eDNA science found ...
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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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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 …

BirdLife International calculated that vultures do $1.8 billion in free ecosystem work across southern Africa each year.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...