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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 ...

Historic apple orchards begin comeback in Montezuma County

Group works to return vitality to orchard industry

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Learn about lichens in San Juan Mountains The Southwest Chapter of the Colorado Native Plant Society will sponsor a field trip to study lichens at 8 a.m. Sunday. The group will m...

Global warming divides Americans more than abortion

Climate change ‘more politically polarizing’

Greenland shark now oldest living animal with backbone

WASHINGTON – In the cold waters of the Arctic, a denizen of the deep lurked for centuries. Now scientists calculate that this female Greenland shark was the Earth’s oldest living animal with...

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Hike to feature environmental art Allison Andersen will lead a free hike to explore environmental trail art by Mary Ellen Long from 8:20 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Participants will meet at Ed...

Seas aren’t just rising, scientists say. They’re speeding up.

On a warming Earth, seas inevitably rise, as ice on land melts and makes its way to the ocean. And not only that - the ocean itself swells, because warm water expands. We already know this i...

We’re trashing the oceans – and they’re returning the favor by making us sick

© 2016, The Washington Post Six years ago, in a bracing 18-minute TED talk, coral reef scientist Jeremy Jackson laid out “how we wrecked the ocean.” In the talk, he detailed not o...

A stunning prediction of climate science – and basic physics – may now be coming true

A lot of people deny climate change. Not many, though, deny gravity. That’s why a recent animation released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory - well, it came out in April, but p...

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Botany outing to view subalpine wildflowers The Southwest Chapter of the Colorado Native Plant Society is sponsoring a wildflower trip to Lizard Head Pass on Saturday. The hike ...

‘Rodentologist’ wants New Yorkers to know more about city’s rats

Rats. In New York, they can outnumber humans four to one, and at any given time, anywhere between 2 million and 32 million wild rats roam the five boroughs. Given their sheer numbers, you’d ...

Mexican farmers using fireflies to save forest

NANACAMILPA, Mexico – In the village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. Thousands ...