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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a new kind of climate observatory near the headwaters of the Colorado River that will help scientists better predict rain and snowfall in the West and determine how much of it will flow through the region. The multimillion-dollar effort led by Lawrence Berkeley [...]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — It's one of the stranger, lesser-known aspects of U.S. health care — the striking, milky-blue blood of horseshoe crabs is a critical component of tests to ensure injectable medications such as coronavirus vaccines aren't contaminated. To obtain it, harvesters bring many thousands of the creatures to laboratories to be bled each year, [...]
FARIBAULT, Minn. — President Joe Biden's administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official told The Associated Press last week there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons adopted for the predators in the [...]
GREELEY, Colo. — "Go West, young man,'' Horace Greeley famously urged. The problem for the northern Colorado town that bears the 19th-century newspaper editor's name: Too many people have heeded his advice. By the tens of thousands newcomers have been streaming into Greeley — so much so that the city and surrounding Weld County grew [...]
Wood costs have skyrocketed over the last year, leaving would-be home renovators to choose between waiting in price purgatory or moving forward and possibly overpaying. Lumber mills incorrectly predicted that the housing market would crumble under the weight of the pandemic rather than boom as it did, says David Logan, senior economist with the National [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — On an assemblage of vacant lots and other pockets of unused land in the Bronx, gardeners from low-income neighborhoods have banded together to create over a dozen "farm hubs," coordinating their community gardens and their harvest. Several years ago, some discovered that, together, their small gardens could grow enough peppers to [...]
TOOELE, Utah (AP) — The sound of the helicopter propeller thundered across the horizon as it dipped down toward mustangs dotting the golden-brown plain. The horses burst into a gallop at the machine's approach, their high-pitched whinnies rising into the dry air. That helicopter roundup in the mountains of western Utah removed hundreds of free-roaming [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A $3 million renovation plan for the fire-damaged former home of baseball great Leroy "Satchel" Paige in Kansas City, Missouri, was unveiled last week on the 50th anniversary of his entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame. If the project was a baseball game, "we're in the first inning," Vincent [...]
With COVID-19 restrictions mostly lifted in the U.S. (though that's changing), you may be enjoying a more social summer than you were last year. But dinners out and movie tickets can seem pricey compared with a year and a half of home-cooked meals and whatever's on TV — especially if you experienced pandemic-related financial hardships. [...]
BOSTON — The famous islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental report warns. The "State of the Coast" report by the Trustees, a prominent Massachusetts conservation group, says the popular tourist destinations off Cape [...]