By Amanda Wight
Writers on the Range
The story of a Montana woman who recently killed and skinned a domestic dog then proudly posted photos on her social media pages has sparked a flood of public outrage.
It should. The woman allegedly mistook the dog for a wolf, saying she was excited to share t...
Michael Hirtzer and Diego Lasarte
Bloomberg
The logjam of thousands of barges and boats backed up along the Mississippi River because of extremely low water levels showed some signs of easing Monday.
The U.S. Coast Guard said an entire queue of vessels that was stuck at Stack Island after ships s...
By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Claire Fu
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Zhang Youping, a Chinese retiree, purchased an all-electric, small SUV from BYD — China’s largest electric vehicle maker — at an auto show for around $20,000 in August, Her family has bought three gas-powered cars in the last decade, bu...
By Ivan Penn
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California finds itself on edge more than ever with a lingering fear: the threat of rolling blackouts for years to come.
Despite adding new power plants, building huge battery storage systems and restarting some shuttered fossil fuel generators over the past ...
By Patrick Whittle
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, MAINE » Wildlife agencies in the U.S. are finding elevated levels of a class of toxic chemicals in game animals such as deer — and that’s prompting health advisories in some places where hunting and fishing are ways of life and key pieces of the ec...
By Lisa Rathke
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, VT. » Residents of a small community in Vermont were blindsided last month by news that one official in their water department quietly lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago, giving rise to worries about their children’s dental health and transp...
By Soumya Karlamangla
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BISHOP, CALIF. » Before the Egyptians built the pyramids, before Jesus Christ was born, before the Roman Empire formed or collapsed, the trees were here.
Ten thousand feet up in the White Mountains of central California, in a harsh alpine desert wher...
WILDLIFE
Icon under pressure
World-class elk herd in bull’s-eye of outdoor recreation boom, report warns
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
Along with heading to the mountains to see the gold aspen leaves, a must-do for a lot of Coloradans in the fall is to hear bull elk bugle. The male elk’s hig...
By Dee-Ann Durbin
The Associated Press
As awareness grows around the world about the problem of food waste, one culprit in particular is drawing scrutiny: “best before” labels.
Manufacturers have used the labels for decades to estimate peak freshness. Unlike “use by” labels, which are found on pe...
By John Flesher and Brittany Peterson
The Associated Press
AMALIA, N.M. » Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek.
“He wants to go home,” Bakevich sa...
By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press
KIRTLAND, N.M. » The clamor of second-graders breaking away from lessons to form lunch lines has gotten quieter in a rural New Mexico community, where families losing coal jobs have been forced to pack up and leave in search of work.At Judy Nelson El...
By Scott McFetridge
The Associated Press
CHURDAN, IOWA » In the 1970s when George Naylor said he wanted to grow organic crops, the idea didn’t go over well.
Back then organic crops were an oddity, destined for health food stores or maybe a few farmers markets.
“I told my dad I wanted to be an or...
Cameron turns to Earth before “Avatar” release
By Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
NEW YORK » There’s a new nature documentary series that promises to show viewers incredible animal behavior in vibrant clarity. Heard that all before? Well, this one is on steroids.
“Super/Natural,” a sixpart series ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Wildfires’ smoke in West erasing clean air progress
By Mira Rojanasakul
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Smoke from wildfires has worsened over the past decade, potentially reversing decades of improvements in Western air quality made under the Clean Air Act, according to research publish...
Wake Americans up to climate change
By Nicholas Goldberg
Los Angeles Times
Why is the greatest threat to the planet of so little concern to most Americans?
It’s shocking, frankly, that global warming ranks 24th on a list of 29 issues that voters say they will think about when deciding whom to vo...
Why cross-border animal treatment standards are constitutional
By Krista Kafer
Columnist for The Denver Post
Search online images for “sow in gestation crate” to see the abject misery of an animal confined to a pen, typically 7 feet by 2 feet in size.
These pens confine gestating sows for the du...
The Associated Press
AMALIA, N.M. » Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek.
“He wants to go home,” Bakevich said, easing the fish into the ch...
Climate law a “game changer” for highways, bridges
By Jane Margolies
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The manufacturing of the concrete and asphalt needed to build the nation’s bridges and highways is a dirty business. Companies that make those materials produce a lot of the emissions that are heating th...
EPA to make racial equality a bigger factor in environmental rules
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Environmental Protection Agency will establish a new national office of environmental justice, the Biden administration’s latest effort to rectify the disproportionate h...
While you sleep, millions of birds will migrate over Colorado
By John Meyer
The Denver Post
While you slept one night this week, more than 30 million migratory birds flew over Colorado, almost five times the number that were aloft the night before, at an average speed of 28 mph and an average alt...
