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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Invasive Carp Field Lead Kayla Stampfle inspects the components of a telemetry receiver that tracks tagged invasive carp in the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wis. on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The solar-powered receiver can transmit real-time notifications of the movements of tagged invasive carp. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

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Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push
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Sun,11/19/23-1:10AM , 128 Reads
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.
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Two people were arrested after police say one man fired a shot into the air and another pepper-sprayed pro-Palestinian demonstrators near an Israel solidarity event in Chicago's northern suburbs on Sunday. (Oct. 24)

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Man fires gun near pro-Palestinian rally outside Chicago, another pepper-sprays crowd, police say
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Mon,10/23/23-8:30AM , 131 Reads
Two people were arrested after police say one man fired a shot into the air and another pepper-sprayed pro-Palestinian demonstrators near an Israel solidarity event in Chicago’s northern suburbs.
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In this image provided by the Chicago Field Museum, the bodies of migrating birds are displayed, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, at the Chicago Field Museum, in Chicago. The birds were killed when they flew into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a Chicago exhibition hall, the night of Oct. 4-5. According to the Chicago Audubon Society, nearly 1,000 birds migrating south during the night grew confused by the exhibition center's lights and collided with the building. (Daryl Coldren/Chicago Field Museum via AP)

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Nearly 1,000 migrating songbirds perish after crashing into windows at Chicago exhibition hall
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Fri,10/06/23-2:41PM , 142 Reads
David Willard has been checking the grounds of Chicago's lakefront exhibition center for dead birds for 40 years. On Thursday morning he found something horrible: Hundreds of dead songbirds, so thick they looked like a carpet.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Arianna Barajas talks about whooping cranes on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, near Baraboo, Wis. Barajas, who identifies as Mexican-American, is spending the summer working for the International Crane Foundation as part of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin's Diversity in Conservation Internships. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

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Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world
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Sat,08/26/23-11:39PM , 169 Reads
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago's suburbs, her forays into nature usually amounted to a bike ride to a community park.
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