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In a recent paper due to be published in the Journal Zootaxa next month, Los Angeles native Emily Hartop will announce about her discovery of 30 new species of fly.

Hartop, an entomologist at Los Angeles’s Natural History Museum, said these previously unknown species were discovered during a brief three-month scan of local backyards and gardens.

Hartop in a phone interview with The Washington Post said, “I’d be less surprised to find hundreds of new species of Megaselia [a common genus of fly] at a remote site in Costa Rica than I was to find 30 new species right here in L.A”.

It is to inform that the new species were uncovered as part of the natural History Museuim’s Biodiversity Science: City and Nature (BioSCAN) project.

Seven Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in voting to tie climate change to national security. They also asked for congressional actions to fight the rapidly increasing carbon pollution and investing in energy efficiency and renewable power.

A GOP proposal to stop the president’s Clean Power Plan in its tracks was not even brought up for a vote.

It was seen that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was not able to gather filibuster-proof majority for a low-bore proposal of his own to encourage states to challenge the president's plan to cut carbon pollution from the nation's dirty power plants.

Republican leaders remained committed to derail progress on climate change offering no plan of their own to confront the central environmental challenge of our time.

The US Food and Drug Administration's drug approval standards have been defended by Dr. Margaret Hamburg, who has served as Commissioner of the FDA since May 2009. Hamburg defended the standards in her final speech after six years as commissioner against critics seeking weaker regulatory standards.

"The great leaps forward in evidence-based medicine of last 50 years have come in large part as a result of high standards for product approval that Congress put in place after series of disasters involving unsafe and ineffective medical products", said Hamburg, 59, said on Friday at a National Press Club lunch in Washington, DC.

A recent study published in the Journal Science showed that Antarctica’s floating ice has decreased by as much as 18% over the last two decades.

Scientists for the study used data collected through satellite, which helped them get a longer range of snapshot of how the Antarctica ice sheet is responding to climate change.

The data collected for over two decades through satellite radar altimetry data, was gathered by missions of the European Space Agency between 1994 and 2012.

Researchers using the collected data created a high-resolution record of ice shelf thickness and were also able to it was not only the ice that was declining but the rate of decline was also accelerating.

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is facing $71,000 fine because of a violation of safety procedures. According to UPI report, the hospital was unsuccessful in placing 23 suspected tuberculosis patients in working isolated treatment rooms causing exposure to the risk of possible infection to other Alta Bates patients, visitors and staff.

With the help of observations by two powerful space telescopes, it has been found that the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of the universe’s total matter is weirder than ever considered.

According to the researchers, they observed huge colliding galaxy clusters and with the help of this they have deduced how dark matter behaves at the time of these vast encounters. So far, the researchers have studied a handful of cluster smashups.

About 72 galactic cluster collisions have been focused by a new survey by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The survey has focused the collisions from all angles and at different times during their collisions.