A man who was thrown into the air by a bison in Yellowstone National Park says the animal didn’t seem aggressive until it picked him as a target. Sixty-five-year-old Carl McDaniel recalled the July 10 attack in a video recorded in a hospital bed, where he was recovering from bone ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full-throated support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left. The federal government has already paused any new right whale rules until 2028, and the House Natural Resources ...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size birds, with bright-orange bills and long legs, scampers into a coastal salt pond. The other briefly takes to the air, sending the team running across the mile-and-a-half-long beach in pursuit. “There is a problem. They can fly,” Alan Kneidel, a senior conservation biologist with the environmental group Manomet Conservation Sciences, said as ...
Just when it seemed as if the summer weather had been mostly pleasant, we were clobbered with a brutal heat wave all too reminiscent of last year. While it’s hard to be a fan of the scorching temperatures, I personally prefer summer heat to winter freeze. Of course, there is no way to do ...
HUNTINGDON — The Juniata College Collegiate Clay Shooting Club is expanding its opportunities for student-athletes and improving its home range facilities through a $75,000 grant from the Midway Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports youth and collegiate shooting sports ...
As various parts of the world scorch under extreme heat, people aren’t the only ones impacted by the high temperatures and humidity. Birds and other wildlife are at risk without respite, too. Birds, especially, are crucial to ecosystems across the globe, providing services like pollinating ...
