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<span style="color:#006647">article</span></a> on urbanization showcased Forest Service research that found declining tree cover in cities. This decline involves a loss of about 36 million trees nationwide and $96 million in associated benefits in metropolitan

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<span style="color:#006647">study </span></a>examined how wildland fires, including megafires, and prescribed burns, affect river flow. The research found that large wildfires increase river flow across the U.S., and the effect can last for years. The consequences

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 bats, the most widespread bat species in North America, sometimes fly with little or no echolocation--the emission of high-frequency sounds to detect objects. This challenges the long-standing assumption that bats always navigate nocturnally using echolocation.

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