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The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II's Pacific theater. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a delicate sanctuary for millions of seabirds, and a new battle is pitting preservation of its vaunted military history against the protection of its wildlife.
More than a quarter of the lands in Washington state and than more than half of Oregon's acreage are owned by the U.S. government. It's land that makes up national parks, forests, monuments, and wildlife refuges.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is determining whether an investigation is warranted into the death of a tiger that bit a western South Dakota wildlife sanctuary director, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday. Officials will look into whether any noncompliance with federal law contributed to the incident at Spirit of the Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, where nearly 20 animals have recently been transferred away, said Tanya Espinosa, a spokeswoman for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
PORT JERVIS - The city's plans to build a whitewater kayaking park on the Delaware River are moving at a snail's pace though myriad government agencies. It's not a snail that's slowing things down, though.
Hundreds of national wildlife refuges that provide critical habitat for migratory birds and other species are crippled by a staffing shortage that has curtailed educational programs, hampered the fight against invasive species and weakened security at facilities that attract nearly 50 million visitors annually, a group of public employees and law enforcement said Wednesday. Staffing at the nation's 565 wildlife refuges and related properties shrank nearly 15 percent in the past decade, and more than one-third of those locations don't have any staff on site, the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said.
A "out of service" bag covers a pump handle at a Nashville gas station that has no fuel to sell on Sept. 17. A "out of service" bag covers a pump handle at a Nashville gas station that has no fuel to sell on Sept.
A judge signaled he plans to certify Linn County's timber lawsuit against the state as a class action, meaning it would include other counties. The county filed the lawsuit earlier this year, asserting insufficient logging had cost it and more than a dozen other timber-rich counties more than $1.4 billion.
A cormorant takes flight on the Duwamish River in Seattle. A judge has ruled that the Corps of Engineers can continue killing the birds to protect salmon.
Halfway between East and West, President Barack Obama traveled Thursday to one of the most remote corners of the Pacific Ocean to amplify his call for global action on environmental protection. Few Americans have ever visited Midway Atoll, a far-flung speck of coral reef with black-footed albatrosses and spinner dolphins - and that's exactly Obama's point.
Halfway between East and West, President Barack Obama is traveling Thursday to one of the most remote corners of the ocean - Midway Atoll - to amplify his call for global action on environmental protection. Few Americans have ever visited the far-flung speck of coral reef, with its black-footed albatrosses and spinner dolphins - and that's exactly Obama's point.
Praising Harry Reid as "one of the best leaders that the Senate ever had," President Obama told a gathering in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on Wednesday, "I could not have accomplished what I accomplished without him being at my side." Obama counts conservation as one of his major accomplishments, as he unilaterally protects vast swaths of land and sea from development, an effort that has noticeably accelerated as he reaches the end of his term.
In this Aug. 10, 2016 photo, signs are posted asking Pokemon Go players to stay on the path instead of walking through the grass to protect wildlife at the Loyola Dunes area on Chicago's lakeshore. The protected dunes have become a popular hot-spot for Pokemon Go players.
The potential of drenching rain and flooding from Tropical Storm Hermine as it moves up the East Coast has forced the cancellation or postponement of many Labor Day weekend events and the closing of some schools and government offices. Hermine made landfall as a hurricane in Florida's Big Bend area early Friday.
Some of the people affected by unprecedented flooding hope to soon receive more assistance, as the president declared some parts as disaster areas. President Barack Obama officially granted a major disaster declaration request Sunday for East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes.
The northern Pacific rattlesnake, which, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife states, is common throughout the northern part of the state and is venomous. Rattlesnake sightings near the Coyote Valley Dam at Lake Mendocino have prompted U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff to post signs advising the public to watch for snakes.
A Transocean drilling rig was blown ashore and is now leaking oil along the coast of Scotland's Isle of Lewis. A 17,000-ton drilling rig had broken lose and was blown ashore on Scotland's Isle of Lewis and officials warned on Wednesday that it is now leaking oil.
Fifteen states are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a Louisiana landowner's attempt to keep the government from listing 1,500 forest acres as essential to an endangered frog. A 2-1 June ruling upheld a district judge's decision that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was within bounds in declaring the land part of a critical habitat for dusky gopher frogs, now found only in Mississippi.
Community members and an environmental group on Wednesday sued the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense and the secretary of defense over a plan to turn two Pacific islands into live-fire testing sites. The plan calls for using the islands of Tinian and Pagan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for military war games.