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Rare, blind catfish never before found in US discovered in national park cave
2016-06-17 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An extremely rare eyeless catfish species previously known to exist only in Mexico has been discovered in Texas. Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at The University of Texas at Austin, identified the live fish, discovered in a deep limestone cave at Amistad National Recreation Area near Del Rio, Texas, as the endangered Mexican blindcat (Prietella phreatophila). The pair of small catfish, collected by a team in May, have been relocated to the San Antonio Zoo. The Mexican blindcat, a species...
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National Grid 'should be broken up'
2016-06-17 08:47:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK's energy system needs major reform, with the National Grid replaced by a US-style independent operator, says a committee of MPs.
For Dolphins, a Bold Decision by the National Aquarium
2016-06-15 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: For Dolphins, a Bold Decision by the National Aquarium The aquarium's plan to move its eight dolphins to an ocean refuge could pave the way for others. Enlarge On Tuesday the National Aquarium announced that it will move its dolphins, like these swimming in a captive enclosure, to an ocean sanctuary. Photograph by PAUL...
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Even in pristine national parks, the air's not clear
2016-06-15 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Smithsonian.com: You just may want to join a ranger-led hike in Southwest Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. You'll see a spot where the scrubby pinyon-juniper forest drops off. It falls into a sandstone chasm. It reveals a maze of 800-year-old stone dwellings. They are wedged beneath an overhang in the canyon wall. They're well preserved. It's easy to imagine you've stepped back in time. And that nothing has changed in this high desert landscape since the Ancestral Puebloans built these chambers. They were created...
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Which National Parks Do You Want to Get $2 Million?
2016-06-15 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Visitors take pictures of Old Faithful, a hallmark of Yellowstone National Park. This month, park lovers will vote to determine which of 20 parks, including Yellowstone, will win $2 million. Twenty national park sites have the chance to win part of two million dollars in corporate funding. Those with the most votes will receive up to $250,000 for a preservation or restoration project-and it's up to the public to choose which sites those will be. (Vote here.) The 2016 Partners in Preservation...
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