ORLANDO, Fla.—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week proposed expanding habitat protections for ailing manatees, which in Florida have suffered in recent years through extraordinary habitat challenges that have left the sea cows emaciated and dying.
]]>Brad Rogers and Brett Berkley stepped carefully on the gravel sill along the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in South Baltimore, which when covered with sandy fill will serve as the bed for 11 acres of newly constructed wetlands.
]]>Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed that a litter of five endangered red wolf pups died in North Carolina after they were left to fend for themselves when a vehicle struck and killed their father in June.
]]>TYLERTOWN, Miss.—On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern Mississippi, Noah Devros dives into the murky water with a flashlight and cheap plastic dive mask. He emerges holding a small turtle.
]]>PLEASANT VALLEY, Mass.—It wasn’t long after dawn—still the cool of the day—but I could feel the weight of summer bearing down. The creek was barely trickling, the beaver pond stagnant. Few insects disturbed its gray surface. Even the birds in this Audubon sanctuary were laying low. I was probably the largest creature walking around these quiet woods, and it would soon be too hot for me to think about anything except reaching the ocean on a vacation still a few weeks in the future.
]]>The Biden Administration signaled it was on the verge of approving a proposed lithium and boron mine in Nevada’s Silver Peak range that would quadruple the nation’s current production of lithium and potentially power 340,000 electric vehicles—though at the cost of roughly 20 percent of an endangered wildflower’s critical habitat.
]]>Marine biologist Kirsten Young set sail in July for the Norwegian Sea aboard a 74-foot sailboat named Witness. She was joined by 11 other researchers and campaigners from the environmental activist group Greenpeace to conduct a scientific survey of marine mammals in waters Norway has designated for deep sea mining.
]]>For five generations, Avery Bates’ family has worked pulling fish, shrimp, crabs and oysters out of Mobile Bay in south Alabama.
]]>A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle.
]]>Every year, the 3.8 million people who visit Grand Teton National Park cross their fingers for clear skies. In perfect conditions, visitors can see the Tetons thrusting upward over serene mountain lakes, one of the most iconic views in the American West. But on hazy days, the mountains become grainy, their beauty dimmed by airborne fine particulate matter.
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