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Air Quality Up in Some EU Cities During Pandemic Lockdown
BRUSSELS (AP) — Air quality significantly improved in European metropolitan areas such as Milan and Madrid ...

Trump Slams Global Climate Agreement Biden Intends to Rejoin
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world ...

Hunting in Idaho Increases as People Seek Refuge From Virus
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hunting license sales in Idaho are up as more residents seek a ...

Trump Plans Would Ease Protections for Sage Grouse in West
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse ...

‘Most Remote Island’ Creates Massive Marine Protection Zone
LONDON (AP) — Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is creating a marine ...

Trump Officials End Gray Wolf Protections Across Most of US
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Trump administration officials on Thursday stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray ...

Hurricanes Stay Stronger Longer After Landfall Than in Past
Hurricanes are keeping their staying power longer once they make landfall, spreading more inland destruction, according ...

Colder Months Can be Perfect Time to Photograph Gardens
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus has led more people to spend time outdoors, and many ...

Greta Thunberg on 2 Very Surreal Years of Protest and Fame
NEW YORK (AP) — In the first days of Greta Thunberg's solitary sidewalk protest outside Swedish ...

NJ Governor Signs Bill to Ban Single-Use Plastic, Paper Bags
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday signed legislation prohibiting single-use ...

Study: Fix to Food Climate Problem Doesn’t Require Veganism
The world likely can't keep global warming to a relatively safe minimum unless we change how ...

Is Honey Healthy? How to Make Sure You Don’t Get Stung
As temperatures fall, honey's popularity tends to rise. Whether used as an ingredient in autumn recipes ...

A Crowded Mountain Can Make Silverback Gorillas More Violent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gorillas are highly sociable animals – up to a point. A crowded mountain ...

US Formally Exits Paris Pact Aiming to Curb Climate Change
BERLIN (AP) — The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact ...

Volvo Cars Invests in Designing and Developing Electric Motors In-House
Volvo Cars is making significant investments that allow for the in-house design and development of electric ...

Study: 1 to 2 Million Tons of US Plastic Trash Go Astray
More than a million tons a year of America's plastic trash isn't ending up where it ...

Colorado Wildfires Drag on Later Than Normal, Break Records
DENVER (AP) — Orange skies, winds gusting up to 70 mph, smoke tornadoes and hazardous air ...

Trump Environmental Rollback Spurs Mining Near Okefenokee
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A mining company said Tuesday that it plans to dig for minerals ...

Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation Celebrates Tenth Anniversary of Public/Private Partnership
The Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the public/private partnership that ensures ...

Pavement Technology Could Cool Cities From the Ground Up
PHOENIX (AP) — Sunbathers understand the benefits of applying sunscreen, but in America's hottest big city ...

Trump Administration Denies California Relief for 6 Fires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration this week rejected California's request for disaster relief ...

‘We Can’t Lose Our Momentum:’ Louisiana Vows to Rebuild
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Back-to-back hurricanes in the space of six weeks left parts of ...

Preview: St. Louis River Alliance – Kris Eilers
Kris Eilers, Executive Director of the St. Louis River Alliance, discusses the cultural and environmental significance ...

California Governor Calls for Protecting 30% of State Land
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday to protect nearly a ...

Indian Capital Launches Campaign to Curb Toxic Air Pollution
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in New Delhi launched an anti-pollution campaign on Monday in an ...

Feisty Tasmanian Devils Roaming Australian Mainland Again
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the ...

INSIGHT: WDSE Promo on Duluth Nonprofits
In this collaboration with WDSE in Duluth, host Mark Oppenheim interviews nonprofit leaders from Northeastern Minnesota ...

Epic Scale of California Wildfires Continues to Grow
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The staggering scale of California's wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single ...

Conservation Success or Pests? Seals Spark Passionate Debate
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and ...

California Milestone: 4 Million Acres Burned in Wildfires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is poised to hit a fearsome milestone: 4 million acres (1.6 ...

Germany Welcomes China Climate Goals, Wants More EU Action
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed China's plan to be carbon-neutral by 2060, ...

France to Ban Use of Wild Animals in Circuses, Marine Parks
PARIS (AP) — France's environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in ...

More Fires in California Wine Country Prompt Evacuations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California's wine country was on fire again Monday as strong winds ...

Leaders to UN: If Virus Doesn’t Kill Us, Climate Change Will
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week's annual United ...

China, Top Global Emitter, Aims to Go Carbon-Neutral by 2060
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding ...

From LA to Oslo, 12 Cities Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuel
BERLIN (AP) — Ten cities around the world on Tuesday joined New York and London in ...

330 Elephants in Botswana May Have Died From Toxic Algae
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this ...

Efforts Afoot to Save South’s Disappearing Grasslands
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee's Cumberland ...

Documents Detail Push to Manage Yellowstone Bison as Cattle
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — In May 2018, Yellowstone National Park's superintendent was ordered by then-Secretary of ...

New Jersey Law Seeks to Stem Pollution in Minority Areas
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Friday a measure giving state regulators ...