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Fire ants filmed forming ‘rafts’ in northeast Australia after heavy rain

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave MELBOURNE, Australia — An environmental group has issued a warning about the invasive threat posed by fire ants, which have been documented forming “rafts” in floodwaters to access new territory amid ongoing heavy rain and cyclone conditions in Australia’s northeast. Reece Pianta at the Invasive Species Council … Read more

As warfare shelling echoes, evacuees scurry onto vans, rafts to flee floods beneath Ukraine dam breach

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KHERSON, Ukraine — As shelling from Russia’s warfare on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island within the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of army vans or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters attributable to a dam breach upstream. The unnerving bark of canines left behind additional soured the temper of these … Read more