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Called Debug, the project targets Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are native to Africa but have infiltrated nearly half of California’s counties since first being detected in the state in 2013.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Tra Jones, general manager of the new amphitheater and a Long Beach native, said he’s striving to make it feel less stopgap and utilitarian than FivePoint.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
St. Petersburg is Putin’s native city, and the economic forum is a high-profile event attended by business people from across the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
"In heathlands like this one, native mosses have gone locally extinct or reduced significantly in their populations," he says.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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