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 For salmon lovers in California, October is “the peak of the return” when hundreds of thousands of Chinook salmon leave the open ocean and swim back to their ancestral streams to spawn and die. All along the Pacific coast, starting in the early summer and stretching as late as December, salmon wait offshore for the right time to complete their journey inland....Click Here To Read Article

First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys

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The EPA approved Oxitec’s mosquitoes for release this spring. Some scientists and locals want to halt the deployment.....

 This Spring, The biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Oxitec says its technology will combat dengue fever, a potentially life-threatening disease, and other mosquito-borne viruses — such as Zika — mainly transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Click Here To Read This Article