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During his middle school years, Caden Clark began to learn flips on the trampoline. When he made the transition from Olive Peirce Middle School to Mountain Valley Academy, he transferred some of those moves to the Bulldogs’ diving team.
It apparently worked. Clark, now a junior, won the CIF Division II boys diving championship on April 23.
Clark had 210.40 points on his six dives during the CIF meet at Granite Hills High School. La Jolla Country Day senior Ethan Estrada had the second-place Division II score of 181.55 points.
“Stuff like that does not come easy, and it takes a lot of dedication and hard work,” said Clark.
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As the health of ecosystems in regions around the globe declines due to a variety of rising threats, scientists continue to seek clues to help prevent future collapses.
A new analysis by scientists from around the world, led by a researcher at the University of California San Diego, is furthering science s understanding of species interactions and how diversity contributes to the preservation of ecosystem health.
Good news for swim and dive athletes who were told last month the championships were canceled. On Wednesday, CIF San Diego Section announced the championships.
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Along the western edge of Alaska s Aleutian archipelago, a group of islands that were inadvertently populated with rodents came to earn the ignominious label of the Rat Islands. The non-native invaders were accidentally introduced to these islands, and others throughout the Aleutian chain, through shipwrecks dating back to the 1700s and World War II occupation. The resilient rodents, which are known to be among the most damaging invasive animals, adapted and thrived in the new setting and eventually overwhelmed the island ecosystems, disrupting the natural ecological order and driving out native species.
A coordinated conservation effort that removed the rats from one of the islands formerly known as Rat Island has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to their natural state in little more than a decade. The ecological rebound at newly named Hawadax Island (a return to the original Aleut name meaning the island over there with two knolls ) extended from lan