At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
Because data centers tend to be built in clusters where public policy is forgiving and resources plentiful, the bulk of Americans who share their neighborhood with server farms live in a relatively small handful of states, such as Virginia and Texas.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
In 2025, those farms delivered 351 metric tons of cotton grown on 2,030 dryland acres.
An uncontained blaze in Utah’s Juab County has scorched 34 square miles, forcing the evacuation of Eureka and nearby ranches as firefighters race to shield homes amid fierce winds.
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Valerie Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
But people who spend time around livestock — including kids who visit relatives’ ranches, ride at lesson barns or wander the Stockyards on a weekend — should know what an infestation looks like and report anything unusual to a veterinarian.
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Ciara McCarthy. Produced with AI assistance,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
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