By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
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Faced with growing concerns about the hunting of freshwater turtles in the United States for Asian food markets, federal officials this week proposed adding...
By Neela Banerjee
Tribune Washington Bureau
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WASHINGTON — Fewer than half of American states are working to protect themselves from climate change, despite more detailed warnings from scientists...
By Matt Campbell
The Kansas City Star
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Imagine a world, just a few decades away, where once-fertile cropland is baked and starved of rain by ongoing climate change.
Just add...
By Neela Banerjee
Tribune Washington Bureau
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WASHINGTON—As a domestic energy boom driven by hydraulic fracturing spreads, so could strip-mining for sand needed for the controversial production...
By Deborah Netburn
Los Angeles Times
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Good news, whale lovers: A new analysis suggests that there are as many blue whales living off the coast of California as there were before humans started...
By Louis Sahagun
Los Angeles Times
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Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming...
By Julia Rosen
Los Angeles Times
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In the blue half-light of the Antarctic autumn, a thin film spreads across the continent’s coastal waters. It’s an embryonic form of sea ice: a mush of microscopic...
By Chuck Raasch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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WASHINGTON — A coalition of environmental and food-safety groups is asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to grant endangered species protection...
By Tom Avril
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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PHILADELPHIA — Its top speed is 35 m.p.h. It has less horsepower than a lawn mower.
Nevertheless, the bright-red, fiberglass-paneled contraption in a...
By Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times
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After leaving a trail of death and destruction across at least six states, a series of violent storms that spawned dozens of tornadoes continued to move through...
By Jeff Strickler
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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MINNEAPOLIS — The land of sky blue waters has become the land of bright green vegetables.
The former Hamm’s brewery in St. Paul, built...
By Mark Grossi
The Fresno Bee
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FRESNO, Calif. — The San Joaquin River in California is America’s most endangered waterway this year, says the national advocacy group American Rivers,...
