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Heather Bable and her son Ashton poses for a photograph, Feb. 25, 2023 at Sprinklz On Top restaurant in East Palestine, Ohio. Bable and her children live less than a half-mile from where a train derailed in a fiery crash Feb. 3, forcing them to evacuate and raising fears about contamination of air, soil and water. Bable her family have lived in East Palestine for four generations but she says she no longer feels safe there and is seeking a new home. (AP Photo/John Flesher)

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Aches, rashes and fear: Trauma remains after Ohio derailment
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Sat,03/11/23-7:45AM , 68 Reads
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Heather Bable speaks rapidly, recalling the terror of the night when a train loaded with hazardous chemicals derailed less than a half-mile from her home in East Palestine, Ohio.
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In this image taken from video provided by the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the bow of the Ironton is seen in Lake Huron off Michigan's east coast in a June 2021 photo. Searchers have found the long-lost Great Lakes ship that came to a tragic end. Officials with the sanctuary in Alpena, Mich,, say they've located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894. The Ironton collided with another vessel in rough seas. Reports at the time said the seven-member crew scrambled into a lifeboat but it was tethered to the ship and pulled down. Five crewmen died. (Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary via AP)

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Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron, confirming tragic story
By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press
Wed,03/01/23-5:04AM , 72 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Even for the Thunder Bay area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Ironton’s fate seems particularly cruel.
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a male lesser prairie chicken in southeastern New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, that new designations for the lesser prairie chicken scheduled to take effect then had been bumped to March 27. The agency is granting endangered status to the grassland bird's southern population segment while listing the northern segment as threatened. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

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Agency delays protections for imperiled bat, prairie chicken
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Wed,01/25/23-3:25PM , 95 Reads
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration is temporarily delaying stepped-up legal protections for two imperiled species following efforts by congressional Republicans to derail the actions.
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Yale University doctoral students Siria Gamez, and Aishwarya Bhandari, rear, work on a wildlife camera that had been attached to a tree in a Detroit park on Oct. 7, 2022. With many types of wildlife struggling to survive and their living space shrinking, some are finding their way to big cities. In Detroit, scientists place wildlife cameras in woodsy sections of parks to monitor animals. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur 'rewilding' in cities
By JOHN FLESHER - AP Environmental Writer
Wed,12/07/22-12:14AM , 78 Reads
DETROIT (AP) — In a bustling metro area of 4.3 million people, Yale University wildlife biologist Nyeema Harris ventures into isolated thickets to study Detroit's most elusive residents — coyotes, foxes, raccoons and skunks among them.
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