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In this photo provided by the USDA/APHIS Wildlife Services, newly designed aerial bait cartridges consist of dead mice with 80-mg acetaminophen tablets and a biodegradable streamer-like cartridge. The cartridge is designed to snag on trees where invasive brown tree snakes are known to feed. New, creative but more high-tech methods may finally be turning the tide in the fight against invasive species. Non-native plants and animals cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars a year. (USDA/APHIS Wildlife Services via AP)
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In this artist photo provided by Robots in Service of the Environment shows, taken April 18, 2017, the first day a new robot was used to hunt dangerous and invasive lionfish in Bermuda. It stuns lionfish with an electric current and then the fish is vacuumed into a container alive and it can later be sold for food. The robot caught 15 lionfish in 48 hours of initial testing. New, creative but more high-tech methods may finally be turning the tide in the fight against invasive species. Non-native plants and animals cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars a year. (Dr. Philippe Rouja/Robots in Service of the Environment via AP)
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, unveils the original name plaque for the new Kosciuszko Bridge during an opening ceremony on the first span of the bridge, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in New York. The bridge officially opens to traffic later in the evening. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Kosciuszko Bridge, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in New York. The bridge officially opens to traffic later in the evening. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a ceremony on the first span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in New York. The bridge officially opens to traffic later in the evening. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Hollywood producer-director Joss Whedon tweeted out a picture of House Speaker Paul Ryan meeting some teenagers and said they didn't measure up in the attractiveness department.
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Image courtesy of Chad and Dana Connelly.
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President Trump has already done a full term’s worth of damage, rolling back Obama-era regulations and installing one of their chief critics as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, say environmentalists. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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In an April 11, 2017 photo, homeowner Joyce Kennedy inspects a birdhouse in the common ground where she and her neighbors in Durham Village, Doylestown, Pa, planted wildflowers last year in hopes of making a meadow for birds. Audubon Durham Village is the state's first official bird-friendly neighborhood -- a new designation by Audubon Pennsylvania, which works to protect and restore natural ecosystems with an eye toward the well-being of birds and habitats. (Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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In an April 11, 2017 photo, homeowner Bill Kennedy, left. and Steven Saffier, Audubon Pennsylvania program manager for bird-friendly communities, discuss the wildflowers Kennedy and his neighbors in Durham Village, Buckingham Township, planted last year in hopes of turning their common ground into a meadow for birds.. Audubon Durham Village is the state's first official bird-friendly neighborhood -- a new designation by Audubon Pennsylvania, which works to protect and restore natural ecosystems with an eye toward the well-being of birds and habitats. (Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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FILE- In this Jan. 23, 2016 file photo, huge waves batter the coast on Beach Boulevard in Pacifica, Calif. The state's Ocean Protection Council decided Wednesday, April 26, 2017, to update its sea-rise guidance for state and local governments. That's mainly because of findings that Antarctic ice sheets are melting increasingly fast. The new projections forecast at least a 1-foot (one-third meter) rise off California by the end of the century. That jumps to 10-feet (3 meters) if the Antarctic ice sheets melt far more rapidly. (John Green /San Jose Mercury News via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, water from a king tide floods a staircase along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. The state's Ocean Protection Council decided Wednesday, April 26 to update its sea-rise guidance for state and local governments. That's mainly because of findings that Antarctic ice sheets are melting increasingly fast. The new projections forecast at least a 1-foot (one-third meter) rise off California by the end of the century. That jumps to 10-feet (3 meters) if the Antarctic ice sheets melt far more rapidly. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 24 2015, file photo, German scientist Andreas Beck takes notes in Robert Island, in the South Shetland Islands archipelago, Antarctica. Antarctica holds 90 percent of the world’s ice. California Ocean Protection Council deputy director Jenn Eckerle said ice melt in Antarctica raises sea levels more off California than it does for the world overall. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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Jay Pagel, a field technician with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, uses a large knife mounted on a 6-foot pole to dismember a 43-foot whale that washed ashore in Toms River N.J. on Wednesday April 26, 2017. The whale, whose cause of death could not immediately be determined, was dismembered and carted away. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Utility workers repair power lines damaged by fallen trees along Stowers Road in Montgomery County, Ala., following morning storms on Thursday, April 27, 2017. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)
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In this April 18, 2017, photo, investigators stand by as debris is removed from a house that was destroyed in a deadly explosion in Firestone, Colo., on April 17. Anadarko Petroleum said Wednesday, April 26, that it operated a well about 200 feet (60 meters) from the house in the town of Firestone. The company didn't say whether the well was believed to be a factor in the explosion or whether it produced oil, gas or both. (Matthew Jonas/The Daily Times Call via AP)
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ADDS THAT THE WHALE IN THE PICTURE IS A HUMPBACK WHALE - This April 24, 2017 photo provided by MERR Institute, Inc. shows a dead humpback whale at Port Mahon, Del. Federal officials said humpback whales have been dying in unusually large numbers along the Atlantic Coast. (Suzanne Thurman/MERR Institute, Inc. via AP)
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This combination of April 26, 2017 images show features in Saturn's atmosphere from closer than ever before. The view was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it became the first spacecraft to venture between Saturn and its rings. (JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/NASA via AP)
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KRISTOPHER RADDER - BRATTLEBORO REFORMER Ted Walski, a wildlife biologist for Region 4 of the N.H. Fish and Game Department, and Deb Gode, of the Winchester Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, release a bobcat Wednesday, April 26, 2017, on a field in Chesterfield, N.H. The bobcat was was injured on Route 9, in Chesterfield. (Kristopher Radder /The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
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A bobcat runs after being released by Ted Walski, a wildlife biologist for Region 4 of the N.H. Fish and Game Department, and Deb Gode, of the Winchester Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, on a field in Chesterfield, N.H. The bobcat was injured on Route 9 on April 10 in Chesterfield. (Kristopher Radder /The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
