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📢 At yesterday’s “May Day” protests, thousands of people came together in every U.S. state to protest against what organizers called a “billionaire takeover.”
🇵🇸 A judge released a Palestinian student, Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested and subsequently detained by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.
🏀 The WNBA preseason starts today, and for the first time ever, all of the league’s preseason games will be either broadcast nationally or available to stream online — until this point, only one preseason game in WNBA history has been shown on national television.
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A new study found that critically endangered axolotyls bred in captivity can survive in the wild
A new study is providing some hope for the conservation of the widely beloved, and critically endangered, axolotls. Researchers released 18 of the amphibians who had been bred in captivity into the wild — and found the animals could survive.
Famous for their permanent smiles, axolotls were once found across several lakes in Mexico City, but their habitat has diminished as humans diverted and drained lakes to prevent flooding. Now, they are only found in canals in a single lake
This groundbreaking research will likely pave the way for more reintroduction projects.
What’s the nuance?The researchers acknowledged that the first priority for axolotl conservation is is to improve its natural habitat, which is also threatened by years of pollution and degradation, leaving only an estimated 50 to 1,000 still existing in the wild.
India massively reduced extreme poverty to just 2.3% of the population — down from 16% a decade earlier
Lifting 171 million people above the poverty line, India reduced extreme poverty from 16% in 2011-2012 to just 2.3% in 2022-2023. Extreme poverty is measured at $2.15 per day in purchasing power parity.
And the results were widespread, with rural extreme poverty falling from 18.4% to 2.8 percent, and urban extreme poverty from 10.7 percent to 1.1 percent over the same time period.
Even applying a $3.65-per-day poverty line, poverty in the country fell from 61.8% to 28.1% — equating to lifting 378 million people out of poverty.
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