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"Canada said on Wednesday it would allow some commercial fishing of cod to restart off its northeastern Atlantic coast, more than 30 years after it was shut down to protect plummeting stocks."
"A top Latino environmental group is launching a series of bilingual ads on Monday, highlighting climate change as an issue that disproportionately affects Hispanics."
"Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world's land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and animal extinctions and cost about $263 billion, according to a study published on Tuesday."
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