In 2026, volunteers began planting 30,000 trees to rebuild the wetland forest that once shielded New Orleans from storms
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August 18, 2026
30,000 native trees near New Orleans and Lake Borgne, PC: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel In the wetlands behind a pumping station near Lake Borgne in Meraux, Louisiana, hundreds of young saplings stand wrapped in white plastic cylinders as volunteers ferry…
Only nine of these butterflies were found across the US in 2022; three years later researchers released more than 1,300 to rebuild the species
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August 18, 2026
By 2022, researchers had documented only nine Poweshiek skipperlings in the entire United States On a summer day in Michigan, a tiny Poweshiek skipperling butterfly takes flight over a restored prairie. The butterfly is smaller than a quarter, but its…