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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' newest effort in the long fight to save the pallid sturgeon is concentrated on 10 sites in the Missouri River between Kansas City and St. Louis. The Corps is working to re-engineer and restore some of the sites to allow better habitat for the pallid sturgeon, which has been an endangered species since 1990.
Researchers report that 41 percent of scuba divers experience dental symptoms in the water. Due to the constant jaw clenching and fluctuations in the atmospheric pressure underwater, divers may experience symptoms that range from tooth, jaw, and gum pain to loosened crowns and broken dental fillings.
A lawyer for Katherine Russell, widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, says the new film "Patriots Day" is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up before the attack and then didn't co-operate with the investigation afterward. "It's just not true," lawyer Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press.
Polar bears are much more resilient to changing levels of sea ice than environmentalists previously believed, and numerous healthy populations are thriving. Predictions that bears would die due to a lack of sea ice have continuously not come to pass .
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: HONOLULU - While scuba diving among the Pacific's deep-sea corals in June, marine biologist Richard Pyle spied a tiny fish the size of a toy race car. Googly-eyed and blush pink, the creature wore a prominent splotch of bluish red on the rear of its dorsal fin.
It's the middle of June, and I'm crawling on my belly over a patch of soft, springy tundra along Cape Greig, Alaska, searching for a group of sunbathing walruses. I'm in commando mode, my face so close to the ground the grass tickles my nose.
The United States Power Squadrons is now premiering the new 'Docking' streaming media video in its Digital Media Library . Raleigh, NC, December 20, 2016 -- -- The United States Power Squadrons announces the debut of its streaming media video focused on docking in its Digital Media Library online at www.uspsdml.org and as a free mobile app.
Coyotes are a fairly common sight in rural areas of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, and landowners might instinctively reach for the rifle if they see one in the pasture or sniffing around the barn. Put a coyote in a city, however, and residents are more likely to react in a way that ranges from trying to feed them to panicking over their pets and children.
Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana made no secret of his ambitions to join a Donald Trump Cabinet, yet his nomination as Interior secretary is in some ways an unlikely fit for the retired U.S. Navy SEAL. Zinke, 55, was an early supporter of the president-elect and publicly expressed his interest in a Cabinet post when Trump visited Montana in May. Like other Western states, Montana's wide-open, rugged landscape has a huge federal presence.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - In a story Dec. 11 about land leases on the Wayne National Forest, The Associated Press reported erroneously why a forest office was closed.
President Barack Obama rented office space in Washington, D.C. Monday to be used after he leaves the White House in January 2017. Barack Obama attends the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse in Washington, DC on Thursday, December 1, 2016 Two sources told The Washington Post that Obama will lease space in the World Wildlife Fund headquarters, located at 1250 24th Street NW.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. If President-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments.
But, sitting at a corner table at E Baldi, an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills popular with Hollywood's A-list, Wahlberg paused before answering. He gazed out the window as a woman clutching a shopping bag the size of a Zipcar walked past.
Just after nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers who were trying to reclaim land that the local government had transferred to a Malaysian palm-oil company.
Remember Donald Trump proclaiming during his election campaign that he is going to "drain the swamp?" Remember that? Sure Donald, you are going to accomplish this by offering positions in your cabinet to individuals who are nothing more than Washington or Wall Street insiders. And then the Donald wants to hand over his business interests to his children.
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture will accept more than 504,000 acres that were offered by producers during the recent ranking period for the Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands enrollment. Through the voluntary CRP Grasslands program, grasslands threatened by development or conversion to row crops are maintained as livestock grazing areas, while providing important conservation benefits.
For more than 20 years, the Gwich'in people of Alaska and northern Canada have fought to protect the 1.2-million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife from oil drilling. A film released today by Patagonia, The Refuge , tells the story of two Gwich'in women who oppose the drilling.
One hundred and three individuals killed or injured in the U.S.'s deadliest mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL this past June. Twenty first graders shot to death in the Sandy Hook shooting in Newton, CT December of 2012.
A federal judge blocked a logging project northeast of Yellowstone National Park until federal officials analyze the effects of the project on Canada lynx that live in the area. A wildlife advocacy group that sued to stop the Greater Red Lodge Habitat and Vegetation Management Project in the Custer National Forest hailed the decision as a victory for the threatened species.
The United States Power Squadrons is now premiering the new 'Maneuvering on Plane' streaming media video in its Digital Media Library . Raleigh, NC, November 25, 2016 -- -- The United States Power Squadrons announces the debut of its streaming media video focused on maneuvering on plane in its Digital Media Library online at www.uspsdml.org and as a free mobile app.