Tag: Land environment
Interior secretary visits new public lands HQ in Colorado
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is paying her first visit Friday to the new Colorado headquarters of her department's Bureau of Land Management after its...
Western wildfires: Crews make progress on huge Oregon blaze
BLY, Ore. — The nation's largest wildfire raged through southern Oregon on Friday but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard work...
EXPLAINER: What is fueling Russia’s ‘unprecedented’ fires?
MOSCOW — Thousands of wildfires engulf broad expanses of Russia each year, destroying forests and shrouding territories in acrid smoke.
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Kenyan president condemns murder of conservationist
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has condemned the killing of conservationist Joannah Stutchbury, who was shot by unknown assailants Thursday.
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Retired investigator: Biden nominee stonewalled 1989 probe
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee U.S. lands in the Western states stonewalled a 1989 investigation into the sabotage of an...
Brazil deforestation falls from May but posts monthly record
RIO DE JANEIRO — Preliminary data from Brazil's government released on Friday showed Amazon deforestation in June fell from the prior month, counter to...
Report: Great Lakes region needs about $2B for flood repairs
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Shoreline cities and towns in the Great Lakes region will be spending heavily in coming years to fix public infrastructure...
5 dead in southern Mexico from mudslide, drowning
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico — Four residents of the southern Mexico state of Chiapas died when a landslide caused by heavy rains collapsed their house,...
Cyprus forest fire that killed 4 now under control
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A deadly brush fire that claimed four lives and has been described as the most destructive blaze in Cyprus' 61-year history...
Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights
As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across...