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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in Fresno, California. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters FRESNO, Calif. — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring that: “There is no drought.” Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of…
T hey swept in after dark on a cold winter’s night: some 30 armed wardens backed by state troopers and shadowed by two film crews from the television show “North Woods Law.” Riding in two dozen vehicles, lights flashing, they rushed up the only road into Allagash as a convoy, then began peeling off in…
Illustration by Tara Jacoby There are few things on this planet I hate more than bottled water. Just the crinkling sound of someone wrapping their mouth around one of those squeaky garbage accordions fills me with rage. I stopped drinking it a long time ago—and you should stop drinking it, too. In 2015, in the…
The United States has selected a national mammal—and, no, it’s not humans. The American bison (Bison bison bison) is now the official mammalian species of the land, putting it on the same symbolic pedestal as the bald eagle when it comes to national icons. The designation was signed into law by President Barack Obama May…
Hide captionBaby spotted eagles open wide for the camera in the Polessye State Radioecological Reserve in Belarus. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION” END CLASS=”HSLIDE” END CLASS=”AUX” END CLASS=”HSLIDEWRAP” Valeriy Yurko/Polessye State Radioecological Reserve END CLASS=”PHOTOCREDIT” Hide captionA herd of ponies in the brush. Researchers studying large mammals in the area around Chernobyl found robust population numbers. END CLASS=”IMAGECAPTION”…
The 15th of 20 seed bottles that make up the world’s longest-running experiment “Some people say it looks like a whiskey flask,” says curator Dr. Frank Telewski. (Photo: Kurt Stepnitz/Michigan State University) In the fall of 1879, Dr. William James Beal walked to a secret spot on Michigan State University’s campus and planted a strange…
Photo The Cima Dome area of the Mojave National Preserve. President Obama is granting national monument status to nearly 1.8 million acres of California desert that would link existing protected lands like this one. Credit David Danelski/The Press-Enterprise, via Associated Press LOS ANGELES — President Obama plans on Friday to designate three new national monuments…
Ganges riverbank in Varanasi (image by Jeeheon Cho / Wikimedia) The Ganges is the largest river in India, providing water to more than 500 million people. It also has extremely important religious significance in Hindu culture — personified as the goddess Ganga, Hindu faith holds that bathing in the river can absolve one’s sins, and that anyone who is cremated…
LIKE some people who might rather not admit it, wolves faced with a scarcity of potential sexual partners are not beneath lowering their standards. It was desperation of this sort, biologists reckon, that led dwindling wolf populations in southern Ontario to begin, a century or two ago, breeding widely with dogs and coyotes. The clearance…
A rare bloom turns the arid Atacama desert in Chile into a magnificent carpet of mauve-colored flowers after the region’s heaviest rain in 20 years. (Reuters) The Atacama Desert in Chile, known as the driest place on Earth, is awash with color after a year’s worth of extreme rainfall. In an average year, this desert…