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, which grows about 30 percent of Earth’s processing tomatoes—hitting the crop hard and putting farmers and pizza lovers alike in a bind.Most of the processed tomatoes in the United States come from California’s Central Valley, a strip of the state some 430 miles long. And in 2021, because of drought and heat, the state’s tomato growers delivered about 10 percent less than the expected crop.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
is being reintroduced there. Habitat loss and poaching had decimated the blue-feathered species, which was declared extinct in 2019. Enter collectors who owned a handful of the birds, and conservationists who helped set up a captive-breeding program in Brazil. In June, eight macaws were set free in protected forest, with a dozen more birds to follow at year’s end.
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Watch the young moon rise above Mercury tonightSamantha Mathewson joined Space.com as an intern in the summer of 2016. She received a B.A. in Journalism and Environmental Science at the University of New Haven, in Connecticut. Previously, her work has been published in Nature World News. When not writing or reading about science, Samantha enjoys traveling to new places and taking photos! You can follow her on Twitter Sam_Ashley13.
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