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As humanity hides from coronavirus, wildlife reclaims lost territory

As humanity hides from coronavirus, wildlife reclaims lost territory

MCT Campus April 28, 2020

LOS ANGELES — Naturalist Gerry Hans stood in the middle of a lonely road in Griffith Park on Saturday, inhaled deeply though his face mask and admired the natural sights and sounds of an oddly serene...

Post Production Students Create Stunning Landscape Videos

Post Production Students Create Stunning Landscape Videos

Angela Richart April 16, 2015

The Post Production class, which is a new class in the Northeast Community College Digital Cinema program, has been creating beautiful videos all semester. Their latest project was an outdoor landscape...

Mining for sand in fracking process holds risks for communities, study says

Mining for sand in fracking process holds risks for communities, study says

October 1, 2014

By Neela Banerjee Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON—As a domestic energy boom driven by hydraulic fracturing spreads, so could strip-mining for sand needed for the controversial production...

Blue Whales Of California Are Back To Historical Levels, Study Finds

Blue Whales Of California Are Back To Historical Levels, Study Finds

September 9, 2014

By Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times (MCT) 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...

Half Of North American Bird Species Threatened By Climate Change

Half Of North American Bird Species Threatened By Climate Change

September 9, 2014

By Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times (MCT) 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...

College team in a race to save gas

College team in a race to save gas

May 1, 2014

By Tom Avril The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) 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...

Death Toll Climbs To At Least 30 As Deadly Storms Move Through The South

Death Toll Climbs To At Least 30 As Deadly Storms Move Through The South

April 29, 2014

By Michael Muskal Los Angeles Times (MCT) 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...

Invasive Pets Are Squatters In Paradise

Invasive Pets Are Squatters In Paradise

April 10, 2014

By Kathy Antoniotti Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) KEY LARGO, Fla. — Each year we make a pilgrimage to a group of islands we call paradise, an archipelago that juts between the Atlantic Ocean and...

Horseshoe Crabs Are Now In Danger

Horseshoe Crabs Are Now In Danger

April 8, 2014

MCT By Jenny Staletovich The Miami Herald (MCT) MIAMI — In matters of love, nothing says romance like a moonlit beach. Especially if you’re a lusty horseshoe crab and the tide is high. Every...

By David Fleshler

By David Fleshler

April 1, 2014

Sun Sentinel (MCT) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a remote part of southwestern Palm Beach County, as a platoon of reporters and photographers watched, a Florida panther was lowered to the ground in...

Saving the Mojave from the solar threat

Saving the Mojave from the solar threat

March 27, 2014

By Mark Butler Los Angeles Times (MCT) After nearly 38 years working for the National Park Service, I hung up my “flat hat” this month and retired as superintendent of Joshua Tree National...

What Chickadees Can Tell Us About Climate Change

What Chickadees Can Tell Us About Climate Change

March 25, 2014

By Sandy Bauers The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) PHILADELPHIA — About 15 years ago, Villanova University biology professor Robert Curry was looking for a project that would allow his students...

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