[UPDATE]: Huge Oversight Gap on Refugio Pipeline in Santa Barbara County
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View ArticleWhat I wish we hadn't learned in 2014
updated 8:28 AM EST, Mon December 29, 2014 January 1: Couples kiss in New York's Times Square to ring in the new year. January 6: Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at Chicago's North Avenue Beach....
View Article09/21/15 ‘Boise Celebrates Good Neighbors’ Recognizes 38 Who Make...
(Source: City of Boise, ID) Mayor David Bieter today announced the names of 38 Boise residents, organizations, and businesses nominated to be recognized during tomorrow evening's Boise Celebrates Good...
View ArticleLife and Death on Route 395
I awoke the morning of my 46th birthday on top of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Not immediately on top of it – it was buried at a depth of at least 25 feet in this spot – but just a few steps from our...
View ArticleIs America Any Safer?
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil...
View Article“Going to the Toilet When You Want”
Introduction: Sanitation as a Human Right “Nayla” (a pseudonym) was a 52-year-old teacher from Daraa, Syria, when anti-government protests began in March 2011. In 2012, she agreed to transport a...
View ArticleThe Unnatural Kingdom
IF you ever have the good fortune to see a Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep in the wild, the experience might go like this: On a sunny morning in Yosemite National Park, you walk through alpine meadows and...
View ArticleTrash Talk: Cooke City Cleans Up Garbage, Saves Bears
Photo by Judy Tilly. The press coverage of endangered species management tends to highlight conflicts. “If it bleeds, it leads.” All too rarely we read stories about people coming together to solve...
View ArticleCAUSES OF POLLUTION AND ITS TYPES
INTRODUCTION Air pollution, contamination of Earth’s ecosystem with supplies that interfere with human health, the top quality of lifestyle, or the organic operating of ecosystems (residing organisms...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View Article23 bird and butterfly species recorded in Tiruchi airport
An independent study by a city college faculty member on bird activity in the international airport and in its vicinity here has recorded 23 bird species besides butterfly species and few mammals,...
View ArticleLaxity of ground staff behind increasing accidents at airports apron area
When a private airline shuttle bus ploughed into a parked aircraft at the Kolkata airport last year, it triggered an alarm. While pilots are subjected to intense scrutiny and have to strictly adhere to...
View ArticleDLNR JOINT NEWS RELEASE: Endangered Hawaiian petrels moved to Kilauea Point...
(Source: The Office of the Governor of the State of Hawaii) (Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, November 3, 2015) A historic project more than 30 years in the making took place on Kauaʻi's north shore on Monday when 10...
View ArticleCollege faculty to carry out study on controlling bird hits
A city college faculty member has come forward to carry out a detailed study on bird activity in and around Tiruchi international airport and suggest scientific measures to control bird hits suffered...
View ArticleSave-heron effort at meet OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT White-bellied heron...
Guwahati, Nov. 29: Conservation experts from all across the world are converging in Guwahati for three days from December 2 to chart out the first ever strategy for the critically endangered...
View ArticleRunway collision with stray buffalo badly damages SpiceJet plane
Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet says that its plane hit a buffalo on the runway at Surat airport, causing enough damage it had to cancel flights. "A stray buffalo hit one of our aircraft, flight...
View ArticleScavenger birds at receiving end of improper waste disposal
Coimbatore: Improper waste disposal methods have a devastating impact on scavenger birds. Many of these birds get hurt and some even die. Forest officials are hoping to tackle this problem by charting...
View ArticleThis is the major reason why flights are delayed in UAE
Foxes, flying foxes and birds - these are some of the wildlife that fly or walk near airplane runways around the world, creating potential safety risks for pilots and passengers. Chris Perry, a...
View ArticleNow, dogs too add to flight delays at Chennai Airport
A dog was spotted near the runway of the Chennai airport causing a few flight delays and forcing a cargo aircraft to take a roundabout route on Wednesday. Last year, a wild boar had entered the airport...
View ArticleScavenger birds suffer due to improper disposal of garbage
Coimbatore: Improper waste disposal methods have a devastating impact on scavenger birds. Many of these birds get hurt and some even die. Forest officials are hoping to tackle this problem by charting...
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