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Louisiana citrus farmers are seeing a mass influx …

Kim Dillon, manager at Ben & Ben Becnel, Inc. shows damage from the recent drought and heatwave in one of their groves in Plaquemines Parish, La., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Citrus farmers in the southeast corner of Louisiana are scrambling to protect and save their crops from salt water, which for months has polluted the fresh water they use for irrigation. A mass flow of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico continues to creep up the Mississippi river and threaten Louisiana communities water used for drinking, cooking and agriculture. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Inside scientists’ mission to save America’s wine industry …

A fire is lit inside a small grill that will send smoke into a structure enclosing wine grapes at the University of Oregon's vineyard near Alpine, Ore., on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America's wine, but it's also prone to wildfires, a combustible combination that spelled disaster in 2020 and one that scientists, including at Oregon State, are scrambling to neutralize. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Spotted lanternfly has spread to Illinois, threatening …

FILE - A smashed spotted lanternfly sits on the ground in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. The Illinois Department of Agriculture said a sighting of one of the winged adult insects was reported on Sept. 16, 2023, at an undisclosed location in the state. Department staffers visited that area and found a “moderately populated area of spotted lanternfly,” the state agency said. (AP Photo, File)

As thaw accelerates, Swiss glaciers have lost 10% of their …

FILE - Chunks of ice float in a lake in front of Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

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Three astronauts return to Earth after a year in space. …

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sits in chairs shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-23 space capsule about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin, touched down on Wednesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (Roscosmos space corporation via AP)

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We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. …

People visit exhibits inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins, Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. Until recently, the genetic legacy from ancient humans was invisible because scientists were limited to what they could glean from the shape and size of bones. But there has been a steady stream of discoveries from ancient DNA, an area of study pioneered by Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo who first pieced together a Neanderthal genome. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

NASA’s Frank Rubio sets US space record

Iran says it has successfully launched an imaging …

This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)

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