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Gainesville, Fla. – Based on the best available science, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Black Creek crayfish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and is also proposing to designate critical habitat for this species. This is a discretionary action based on new data which confirms the imminent threat of […]
There was a strange feeling as the vice-presidential debate got under way in the CBS News studios on Tuesday night that only intensified as 90 minutes of detailed policy discussion unfolded: was the United States in danger of regaining its sanity? After weeks and months of being assailed by Donald Trump’s dystopian evocation of a […]
To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy released Wednesday is meant to prop up declining […]
When tau proteins build up in human brains, they form tangles that progressively get worse causing memories and motor function to diminish. Hibernating bears also experience a massive accumulation of tau in the brain (the proteins may help protect neurons during inactivity), but hibernating bears can quickly clear out the tau-tangles upon wakening with their […]
(NEXSTAR) – Nine species could soon find themselves on federal threatened or endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says. After reviewing eight species native to the United States and two from Southeast Asia, wildlife officials determined nine of them warrant advancing to the next step under the Endangered Species Act. Before being […]
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