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Values vs. facts

Wide divide between what public, scientists think

Protect one species, damage another?

Better to restore entire ecosystem’s balance than one of its components

Public backs climate action

WASHINGTON – An overwhelming majority of the American public, including half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York T...

Special-crop symposium offered in March

A speciality-crop symposium for current and aspiring growers is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1 at the Lewis-Arriola Community Center, 1 mile west of U.S. Highway 491 in Arriola. ...

Magnificent blue glow of Hong Kong seas signals trouble

Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong’s seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say. The glow is an indicator of a...

Museum fossil discovery pushes snake origins back 65M years

We may need to slither back the clock on snake evolution, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. In fact, we may have been pretty wrong abou...

Earth Briefs

Cattle symposium to be held Feb. 18 The 32nd annual San Juan Basin Extension Beef Cattle Symposium will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds...

Refuge no refuge from controversy

5 things to know about effort to ban drilling in northern Alaska

Vulture’s diet of rotting flesh cleans ecosystem

Research could help human health

Region’s air may face new rules

Proposed EPA plan could put counties above pollution limits

Warmer world threatens long-range flier

Rufa red knots migrate 18,000 miles annually

Pollution pushes Earth’s limits

We have crossed 4 of 9 ‘planetary boundaries,’ scientists say