California island foxes removed from endangered species list

LOS ANGELES – Not long ago, foxes native to the Channel Islands off the California coast teetered on the edge of extinction. They have rebounded to the point where U.S. wildlife ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Historic apple orchards begin comeback in Montezuma County

Group works to return vitality to orchard industry

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Learn about lichens in San Juan Mountains The Southwest Chapter of the Colorado Native Plant Society will sponsor a field trip to study lichens at 8 a.m. Sunday. The group will m...

DATE: Aug 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Global warming divides Americans more than abortion

Climate change ‘more politically polarizing’

DATE: Aug 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Greenland shark now oldest living animal with backbone

WASHINGTON – In the cold waters of the Arctic, a denizen of the deep lurked for centuries. Now scientists calculate that this female Greenland shark was the Earth’s oldest living animal with...

DATE: Aug 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Hike to feature environmental art Allison Andersen will lead a free hike to explore environmental trail art by Mary Ellen Long from 8:20 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Participants will meet at Ed...

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Seas aren’t just rising, scientists say. They’re speeding up.

On a warming Earth, seas inevitably rise, as ice on land melts and makes its way to the ocean. And not only that - the ocean itself swells, because warm water expands. We already know this i...

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

We’re trashing the oceans – and they’re returning the favor by making us sick

© 2016, The Washington Post Six years ago, in a bracing 18-minute TED talk, coral reef scientist Jeremy Jackson laid out “how we wrecked the ocean.” In the talk, he detailed not o...

DATE: Aug 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

A stunning prediction of climate science – and basic physics – may now be coming true

A lot of people deny climate change. Not many, though, deny gravity. That’s why a recent animation released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory - well, it came out in April, but p...

DATE: Aug 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Botany outing to view subalpine wildflowers The Southwest Chapter of the Colorado Native Plant Society is sponsoring a wildflower trip to Lizard Head Pass on Saturday. The hike ...

DATE: Aug 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

‘Rodentologist’ wants New Yorkers to know more about city’s rats

Rats. In New York, they can outnumber humans four to one, and at any given time, anywhere between 2 million and 32 million wild rats roam the five boroughs. Given their sheer numbers, you’d ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Mexican farmers using fireflies to save forest

NANACAMILPA, Mexico – In the village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. Thousands ...

DATE: Jul 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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