WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2024: For more than 2 years, Amy Roda, Supervisory Entomologist at USDA's Treatment and Inspection Methods Laboratory in Miami, FL, and Oregon State University's Malacologist Rory McDonnell have been researching best management practices to detect and control invasive land snails. Last month the two scientists met in Michigan to test an inexpensive  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news on Sept. 27, 2024: Debra Simon Art Consulting and Amtrak have announced a new site-specific installation by Nekisha Durrett at Washington Union Station. The installation, Farewell, We're Good and Gone was composed with AI-generated imagery. Durrett's work extends Amtrak's acclaimed Art at Amtrak series of rotating exhibitions. Farewell, We're Good and Gone amplifies a central but often overlo  more