Using strobes and a long exposure time to allow the maximum amount of available light to hit his lens, Cooley snags about 50 shots of the 20-foot-tall tree, which stands vigil over a street where nearly all the homes burned.
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Marah Eakin,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Firefighters, meanwhile, quickly contained the blaze to a 10-by-10-foot area.
Given all the other economic and geopolitical uncertainty in the world, this is perhaps not the best time to assume rapid and significant change in the underpinnings of how the central bank has worked has no risk.
She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon that protected sea turtle nesting grounds and southern Lebanon's Mediterranean coast.
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Jane Arraf,
NPR,
21 June 2026
In 2019, as Scientific American reported at the time, researchers discovered that some poison frog dads may travel as far as 400 meters (or about a quarter of a mile) in an apparent search for ideal nursery grounds.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
21 June 2026
Start spraying at the bottom of the plant's stalk, focusing on the undersides of the leaves where pests often hide.
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SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
11 June 2026
Cabbage loopers feed on leaf undersides, creating windowpane patterns, while later larval stages chew holes or bore into cabbage heads, causing stunted growth or failure to form a head.
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Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 June 2026
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