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U.S. states with the most and least endangered species

Recordnet 21 Jun 2023
With over 1,300 endangered or threatened species in the United States today, newly compiled data shows the states with the most number of vulnerable populations ... states with the most endangered species ... Use the interactive map to learn more about each state's number of endangered species and notable species on record.
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Biden Administration Retains Key Trump-era Extinction Policies

Common Dreams 21 Jun 2023
The Biden administration today proposed revisions to Trump-era regulations that severely weakened protections for our nation’s most imperiled animals and plants, keeping in place some of the most significant rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act in the law’s 50-year history.
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Defenders of Wildlife Welcomes Restoration of Automatic Endangered Species Act Protections for Threatened Species

Common Dreams 21 Jun 2023
In a highly-anticipated decision impacting our nation’s imperiled wildlife and their habitats, the Biden administration today released a re-write of damaging Trump-era Endangered Species Act regulations ... Iconic species like the American peregrine falcon and the bald eagle were recovered and delisted due to ESA’s success.
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House poised to censure Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations

The Associated Press 21 Jun 2023
(AP) — The Biden administration proposed bringing back rules to protect imperiled plants and animals on Wednesday as officials moved to reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act ... “We have the opportunity to try to improve the status of species before they get to the brink,” he said.
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Biden administration moves to restore endangered species protections dropped by Trump

The Morning Journal 21 Jun 2023
— The Biden administration proposed new rules for protecting imperiled plants and animals on Wednesday as officials moved to reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act ... Industry groups have long viewed the 1973 Endangered Species Act as an impediment.
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Biden Administration Moves to Restore Endangered Species Protections

Flathead Beacon 21 Jun 2023
BILLINGS – The Biden administration proposed new rules for protecting imperiled plants and animals on Wednesday that would reverse changes under former President Donald Trump that weakened the Endangered Species Act ... That provision was dropped under Trump as part of a suite of changes to the species law encouraged by industry.
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What you can do about the decline in fireflies

Columbia Daily Tribune 21 Jun 2023
Fireflies are not a single species; there are more than 2,000 different species of fireflies! Each species acts a little differently than the others. The firefly species in the western United States do not light up at all ... Depending on the species, the larvae will transform into adult fireflies sometime between two weeks and a year.
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Massachusetts's Marine Invaders Call for Eyes on the Water

The Salem News 21 Jun 2023
In the tide pools of Winter Island, on the floating docks in Beverly, and around the rocky shores of Marblehead, there are countless biological invaders that may threaten our ecosystem, referred to as invasive species ... The next planned invasive species monitoring will take place next Tuesday at Winter Island.
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A brand new dinosaur species with spiky armor was recently discovered to have roamed England ...

Business Insider 21 Jun 2023
Stuart Pond A new species of dinosaur, Vectipelta barretti, was discovered on England's Isle of Wight. The new species is an ankylosaur, with dorsal armor made up of plates, spikes, and curved spines. Researchers will have to examine other ankylosaur fossils to see if they belong to the new species.
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Brazil seizes world’s biggest consignment of illegal shark fins

Al Jazeera 21 Jun 2023
The two species were added to Brazil’s national list of endangered species last month ... Officials said the firms had illegally used permits for other species to amass the huge haul ... fin trade and shark meat imports into Brazil, saying this would be vital to protect the species.
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Study explores climate change impacts on seagrass meadows

Phys Dot Org 21 Jun 2023
But these submerged savannahs may be in danger of disappearing, according to a new Stanford study that modeled the distribution of seagrass species around the world at two different timepoints in the future ... The homogenization of communities is likely to lead to a more profound impact on biodiversity than even the loss of species," Daru said.
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Fossils show ancient long-necked sea beast's 'gruesome' decapitation

Indian Express 21 Jun 2023
The researchers studied neck and head remains of two species of Tanystropheus, detecting bite marks and other signs of trauma indicating decapitation. The larger species, the one that ate fish and squid, reached 20 feet (6 meters) long, though this individual was about 13 feet (4 meters).
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Fossils show ancient long-necked sea beast’s ‘gruesome’ decapitation

Taipei Times 21 Jun 2023
The researchers studied neck and head remains of two species of Tanystropheus, detecting bite marks and other signs of trauma indicating decapitation. The larger species, the one that ate fish and squid, reached 6 meters long, though this individual was about 4 meters ... There was evidence of predation in the fossils of both species.
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'All hatched': Eggs of endangered parrot seized at Guangzhou customs under good care

ECNS 21 Jun 2023
All 82 parrot eggs of a species belonging to Amazona have hatched and are under good care, after they were seized by customs in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province ... The birds were identified to be a parrot species under Amazona, which is listed ...
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Different pathways for achieving endothermy in teleost fish species

Phys Dot Org 21 Jun 2023
Over hundreds of millions of years of evolution, at least 40 species of fish have overcome the challenge of losing heat in water and successfully achieved partial or full-body endothermy, including moonfish, mackerel tuna, and sailfish ... fish species (mackerel tuna and sailfish).

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