California builds a ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect wildlife from extinction by fire and heat
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Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain. Article by Louis Sahagún. Phys.org – August 27, 2021.
It was just before sunrise in July when the botanists Naomi Fraga and Maria Jesus threw on backpacks and crunched their way across a brittle alkaline flat in the hottest corner of the Mojave Desert. Their mission: to rescue a tiny plant teetering on the brink of extinction. […]