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"Finally, urban environments aren't very friendly to a lot of native species, so you have a degraded ecological community that creates opportunities for new species to come in," said Winchell.

Israeli strikes have also eliminated Iranian military commanders in Syria and degraded supply lines to pro-government militias there.

Even then, many scientists dismissed the resulting miniproteins as unimportant, expecting they were “noise” that were quickly degraded.

They are making a world so scary and degraded that it's perfectly understandable not to want to inflict it on a child.

Mr. Francis’ actions not only degraded the 7th Fleet’s readiness but shook the Fleet’s trust in its leadership who furthered his corrupt practices,” Kelly said.