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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    White-nose syndrome reaches California, threatens bats

    Some bats have white noses, and that's a sign of a disease that’s killed millions of bats across North America. Now it's arrived in California. White-nose syndrome is caused by a fungus that grows on the animal’s nose and wings while it hibernates.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 10, 2019 • 1 min read

    Some bats have white noses, and that's a sign of a disease that’s killed millions of bats across North America. Now it's arrived in California. White-nose syndrome is caused by a fungus that grows on the animal’s nose and wings while it hibernates.

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    4 of 5
    Will U.S. women's soccer team win their fight for higher pay?
    1. 0:00Will women soccer players finally earn the same pay as men?
    2. 10:02Legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act
    3. 20:04More than $400 billion needed to build seawalls to protect U.S. cities
    4. 29:12White-nose syndrome reaches California, threatens batsYou’re reading this
    5. 39:22‘Game of Thrones’ ruined Dubrovnik, Croatia
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