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Prescribed burn in Cat Creek Road area

Southern Ute Agency Fire Management is planning a prescribed burn Monday through Friday in the Garcia Canyon/Round Meadow area of Archuleta County Road 700 (Cat Creek Road), about 16 miles s...

DATE: Sep 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

National Solar Tour to highlight Durango homes

The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour will feature a Durango-area solar home tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 8. The tour will showcase solar innovation and is ...

DATE: Sep 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Alaskans live among bears – both real and brightly colored

Painted bears aim to raise awareness

DATE: Sep 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Africa’s elephants rapidly declining as poaching thrives

The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the continent...

DATE: Sep 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Rare whale’s recovery hurt by entanglements, scientists say

PORTLAND, Maine – The ability of an endangered whale species to recover is jeopardized by increasing rates of entanglement in fishing gear and a resultant drop in birth rates, according to s...

DATE: Sep 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Lightning strike kills 323 reindeer in Norway

The macabre images released Monday by the Norwegian Environment Agency look like something out of a wildlife zombie apocalypse movie, or the aftermath of a cervid “Game Of Thrones” battle: a...

DATE: Aug 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

In drought, drones help California farmers save every drop

LOS BANOS, Calif. – A drone whirred to life in a cloud of dust, then shot hundreds of feet skyward for a bird’s-eye view of a vast tomato field in California’s Central Valley, the nation’s m...

DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Obama creates world’s largest marine protected area off coast of Hawaii

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday expanded a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a safe zone for tuna, sea turtles and thousands of other species in what will be ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Mice quarantine themselves when sick – a lesson for us all

In 1665, a bundle of cloth from London arrived at the door of the tailor for the village of Eyam, a tiny community in the midlands of England. Within a week, the tailor’s assistant was dead....

DATE: Aug 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Learn how glaciers shaped our landscape The San Juan Mountains Association will hold its Glacial Landforms Field Seminar at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 18 at Highland Mary Lakes near Silverton. ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

California island foxes removed from endangered species list

LOS ANGELES – Not long ago, foxes native to the Channel Islands off the California coast teetered on the edge of extinction. They have rebounded to the point where U.S. wildlife ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Historic apple orchards begin comeback in Montezuma County

Group works to return vitality to orchard industry

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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