Floods fail to save canyon beaches

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The floodwater released into the river, experimentally, did not carry enough sediment to rebuild the area's eroded beaches. The Colorado River, which runs along the Grand Canyon in Arizona, used to be brown with sediment and was flanked by extensive beaches and sandbars that provided habitat for species like humpback chub (Gila cypha), a fish with degenerate eyes and a prominent hump that stabilizes it in the river's swirling waters.

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Plans to track tuna canned amid claims of cash shortfall

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The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in New Orleans postponed the research programme to investigate populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna. The research aimed to develop a better understanding of the bluefin's life cycle, and to determine if really there are two separate stocks, one in the east spawning in the Mediterranean and one in the West Atlantic spawning in the Gulf of Mexico.

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A wing and a prayer

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The ivory-billed woodpecker, a huge bird supposed to have died years ago, was the goal of a group of scientists to study. For some the group's mission is a chance to bring back the bird from the verge of extinction whereas to others it means to save a species that might no longer grace the woods.

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