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    Wildlife Thrives in Southern Sudan, Surveys Reveal

    Jun 21, 2007 10:45 PM EDT

    ... Texas.JEFFREY BROWN: As big as Texas?MICHAEL FAY: Yes.JEFFREY BROWN: So what was the expectation going in, that the war had devastated the wildlife population?MICHAEL FAY: Yes, I mean, usually, you've got armies with lots of light weapons, wildlife available, they obliterate the wildlife. In southern ...

  • May 24, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 24, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    May 24, 2025 10:03 PM EDT

    ... 31 states. 96 percent of the patients are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Most of the confirmed cases have been in West Texas. Across Texas, 728 cases have been reported. The CDC says the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, is very safe and effective. And another ...

  • News Wrap: Ukraine and Russia exchange hundreds of POWs

    News Wrap: Ukraine and Russia exchange hundreds of POWs

    May 24, 2025 09:45 PM EDT

    ... 31 states. 96 percent of the patients are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown. Most of the confirmed cases have been in West Texas. Across Texas, 728 cases have been reported. The CDC says the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, is very safe and effective. And another ...

  • DHS Secretary Noem taps new leaders for ICE and moves to identify leakers inside agency

    DHS Secretary Noem taps new leaders for ICE and moves to identify leakers inside agency

    Mar 09, 2025 10:52 PM EDT

    ... through on what President Trump has promised,” Noem told CBS' “Face the Nation.” WATCH: Vance holds press conference on immigration after touring southern border in Texas While these polygraph exams are typically not admissible in court proceedings, they are frequently used by federal law enforcement agencies and for national security ...

  • WATCH: Trump signs order to slash federal regulations after Burgum confirmed as interior secretary

    WATCH: Trump signs order to slash federal regulations after Burgum confirmed as interior secretary

    Jan 31, 2025 11:04 PM EDT

    The U.S. currently produces more crude oil than any nation in history, according to the Energy Information Administration. More cost-effective technology in recent decades drove drilling booms in states including New Mexico, Texas and North Dakota, where vast expanses of rural farmland have been industrialized by oil and ...

  • Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise

    Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise

    Nov 07, 2024 06:27 PM EDT

    While the key remains mostly rural with modest Florida bungalows and more palatial places, development has taken away some deer habitat. ”We have lots of people and the wildlife living in the same really concentrated area," said Katy Hosokawa, a park ranger at the National Key Deer Refuge, established in ...

  • WATCH: Trump amplifies false racist rumor about Ohio’s Haitian immigrants in debate

    WATCH: Trump amplifies false racist rumor about Ohio’s Haitian immigrants in debate

    Sep 11, 2024 04:19 AM EDT

    ... The next day, Vance posted again on X about Springfield, saying his office had received inquires from residents who said “their neighbors’ pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.” Other Republicans shared ...

  • Why experts worry more pet owners may skip rabies shots over vaccine hesitancy

    Why experts worry more pet owners may skip rabies shots over vaccine hesitancy

    Jan 31, 2024 06:43 PM EDT

    ... to understand and trust some of these measures.” For those success stories to continue, Rohde said, “We have to keep educating people.” Decades ago in Texas, Rohde worked with research teams to reduce rabies transmission among wildlife. They flew in a grid over animal ranges across South Texas, dropping baits ...

  • Billionaire backers of new California city reveal map and details of proposed development

    Billionaire backers of new California city reveal map and details of proposed development

    Jan 18, 2024 12:09 AM EDT

    ... the land California Forever is targeting is in the heart of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a sensitive estuary home to many fish and wildlife species. The Delta is also the center of California's already over-taxed water supply system. Critics of the project worry adding more development ...

  • Biden vetoes two Republican-led bills to undo protections for the prairie chicken and northern bat

    Biden vetoes two Republican-led bills to undo protections for the prairie chicken and northern bat

    Sep 27, 2023 06:59 PM EDT

    ... s a member of the grouse family found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest, including the oil-rich Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas. The bird’s range also extends into parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas. Environmentalists have long sought stronger federal protections for the prairie bird ...