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The U.S. government is declaring the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker mdash; and 22 more birds, fish and other species mdash; extinct.It s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a pl stanley cup ant or animal, but government scientists say they ve exhausted efforts to find these 23. And they warn climate change, on top of other pressures, could make such disappearances more common as a warming planet adds to the dangers facing imperiled plants and wildlife.The ivory-billed woodpecker was perhaps the best known species the U.S. stanley cup Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday will announce is extinct. It went out stubbornly and with fanfare, making unconfirmed appearances in recent decades that ignited a frenzy of ultimately fruitle stanley cups ss searches in the swamps of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. This undated still image taken from video and provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows an ivory-billed woodpecker. / AP Others such as the flat pigtoe, a freshwater mussel in the southeastern U.S., were identified in the wild only a few times and never seen again, meaning by the time they got a name they were fading from existence. When I see one of those really rare ones, it s always in the back of my mind that I might be the last one to see this animal again, said Anthony Andy Ford, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Iunf Body of notorious gangster John Dillinger to be exhumed 85 years after FBI agents killed him
Though floodwaters may be receding, countless homes and neighborhoods are still flooded. Still, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says it s time for him to turn his attention to recovery, to helping the thousands displacedby Hurricane Harvey and assessing how the city will deal with the catastrophic damage in its wake.Turner surveyed the devastation from above with the city s police and fire chiefs on Thursday. Just before that, he spoke to CBS News Mark Strassmann about what s next in the recovery effort for America s fourth largest city. Mayor Turner says his city has been punched before. Anything you wish you d done differently Strassmann asked. No. Let me put it this way: You can always improve, you know. And we ll sit down and we ll assess converse what we could have done better, Turner said. The city certainly does need more air max assets, high water vehicles, high water trucks, high water boats, fi adidas campus rst responders need more equipment. And in a storm like this, when some of your roads are cut off and your airports may not be functioning at that point in time, it makes it much more difficult to get to people as soon as you would like to. There are roughly 12,000 people in shelters, many of whom will need help long-term. Before and after Harvey s floods 11 photos
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tfqs Trump s legal troubles come to a head in New York