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TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
Va. butterfly garden has strict no-touch rules
Don't touch the butterflies. Don't pick them up. Don't try to catch them. Don't step on them. Don't leave with any of them on your clothes. Entering and leaving the new butterfly garden at the Science Museum of Western Virginia isn't like a simple traipse into a field. There are ...
Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner
The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water. Then thousands of mine workers and their ...
The Colorado: Challenged by climate, population
The Colorado River's winter whisper in the Kawuneeche Valley was becoming a quiet spring roar last week as the stream hinted at the beginnings of the snowmelt's pell-mell tumble off the mountains. But not a drop of that snowmelt cascading into the Colorado River will reach the Pacific Ocean. The ...
Wyoming inmate sues again over eagle feathers
A Wyoming inmate is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, claiming agency officials improperly delayed for years sending him eagle feathers he needed for Native American religious purposes. Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr., a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, is serving a life sentence in the beating death of ...
Groups disagree over proposed wetland law changes
For the second time in recent years, the Michigan Legislature is rewriting environmental law in ways that critics say would accelerate development of sensitive wetlands, although business interests contend the revisions would provide adequate protections while boosting the economy. The state Senate this week approved and sent to the House ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
Gov. Rick Perry wouldn't say Friday whether there is too much unfinished business at the Texas Legislature to adjourn next week as scheduled. His record the last 13 years says lawmakers aren't going anywhere. The regular 140-day session ends Monday. But with only the Memorial Day weekend left to work ...
Kivalina students miss 3 weeks of school
Students in a remote Inupiat Eskimo village in northern Alaska received three fewer weeks of school because of a severe shortage of treated water. The fall semester was postponed five weeks in Kivalina last year after late summer storms damaged a water supply pipeline that left the school without clean ...
Calif. plastic ocean debris bill dies in committee
A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday. Assembly Bill 521 was before the chamber's Appropriations Committee, and the panel failed to act on it, effectively ...
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