Bill Leikam was reviewing footage from a wildlife camera he placed along a Palo Alto creekbed recently when something unfamiliar scampered across the screen.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2023
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By 10 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, the parking lot at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park was already full, and the line of cars waiting to enter stretched well back from the entrance.
Ecology
Aug 28, 2023
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Last year, Don Pratt fled from his home as a wildfire swept down the mountainside here in Washington's Cascade Range.
Environment
Aug 24, 2023
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This summer has proven how destructive climate change can be. We have been plagued by harrowing images of Maui, Hawaii, in ashes, news about wildfires spreading smoke across Canada and the United States and record-breaking ...
Economics & Business
Aug 21, 2023
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California's only native sunfish, the Sacramento perch, survived catastrophic floods in the 1860s and was so abundant that it was a regular staple in San Francisco's markets before invasive species decimated its population.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2023
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Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" has focused new attention on the legacies of the Manhattan Project—the World War II program to develop nuclear weapons. As the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Environment
Aug 1, 2023
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A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that nearly half of the drinking water in the United States is contaminated with "forever chemicals," the per- and polyfluoroakyl substances known as PFAS that can cause ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2023
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In a remote patch of a long-closed Native American boarding school, near a canal and some railroad tracks, Nebraska's state archeologist and two teammates filled buckets with dirt on Monday, and sifted through it as if they ...
Archaeology
Jul 10, 2023
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Officials for years have been cleaning up tire after tire from the ocean floor off Broward County—removing what was once meant to create a fish habitat but turned out to be an environmental mess. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2023
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New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States' biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in a sign of the strains that drought and climate change are causing across ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2023
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