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Two weeks into the Trump Administration, thousands of documents detailing animal welfare violations nationwide have been removed from the website of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has been posting them publicly for decades. These are the inspection records and annual reports for every commercial animal facility in the U.S.—including zoos, breeders, factory…
(Scott Heins / Gothamist) In a move that should surprise no one but outrage everyone (who isn’t getting rich off it), President Donald Trump signed executive orders revisiting both the Keystone XL Pipeline, which President Obama rejected in 2015, and the Dakota Access Pipeline, the construction of which the Army Corps of Engineers…
The decision to advance the pipelines cast aside efforts by President Barack Obama’s administration to block construction of the two pipelines, while making good on one of Trump’s campaign promises. As he signed the documents Tuesday in the Oval Office, Trump also vowed to “renegotiate some of the terms” of the Keystone bill and said…
In September, Democratic Congress members Frank Pallone, Jr. and Jared Huffman sent a letter to Obama urging him to exercise that authority. The letter was signed by 74 lawmakers, almost all Democrats, and contained quotes from representatives from some of the groups that produced the fact sheet in May. Environmentalists say drilling in the Arctic…
Eagles are waging war against drones, knocking them out of the sky Eagles are no fans of drones.Image: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images By Johnny Lieu2016-11-18 05:25:33 UTC While we all look forward to the prospect of pizza being delivered by drones, not everyone is loving the flying gadgets. Birds of prey don’t particularly like them. At…
A plume of steam and ash billowing out of Mt. Saint Helens in 1982, two years after the most destructive eruption in US history. Image: Wikimedia Picture a volcanic eruption: fiery magma and smoke billowing skyward as a towering mountain empties its over-pressurized belly of a hot meal. At least, that’s how most of us…
Must Reads googleon: index How Snakes Lost Their Legs END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” October 20, 20161:45 PM ET END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Enlarge this image Burmese python and the DNA sequence responsible for limb loss. Eric Zamora/Florida Museum of Natural History and Martin J. Cohn/University of Florida hide caption toggle…
Photo A floating cage containing hundreds of oysters was pulled into Jamaica Bay from Bayswater Point State Park in Queens on Thursday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times Torrential rain poured down on the team of scientists and conservationists on Jamaica Bay as their small boat slowly towed about 85 cages packed with…
Visitors flock to the New York Botanical Garden all summer long for a whiff of its fragrant blooms. On Friday, they were drawn to an altogether less inviting odour. Known as the “corpse flower”, it emits a pungent odour of rotting meat, luring pollinators that feed on dead animals. The six-foot plant – it…
AC isn’t just about one’s social status and affiliation; it’s a matter of public health: Heat waves kill at least as readily as cold, causing hundreds of deaths every year in the U.S.Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images “Why is America so over air-conditioned?” asks the New York Times in last weekend’s Sunday Review. The…