• WATCH: Biden announces creation of national monuments, marine sanctuary in West

    WATCH: Biden announces creation of national monuments, marine sanctuary in West

    Mar 21, 2023 03:21 PM EDT

    ... block Willow. Conservation and tribal groups praised Biden's action. The Avi Kwa Ame landscape is sacred to 12 tribes and is home to rare wildlife and plants, while Castner Range is the ancestral homeland of the Comanche and Apache people, and its cultural ecology is considered sacred to several ...

  • Border patrol agents sending migrants to false city addresses, sowing confusion

    Border patrol agents sending migrants to false city addresses, sowing confusion

    Oct 24, 2022 09:56 PM EDT

    NEW YORK — When Wilfredo Molina arrived in the U.S. from his native Venezuela, he told border agents he wanted to go to Miami but didn't have an address. They directed him to what he thought was a shelter in midtown Manhattan but turned out to be a gray ...

  • U.S. Border Patrol is sending migrants to offices around the country, but no notice given

    U.S. Border Patrol is sending migrants to offices around the country, but no notice given

    Oct 24, 2022 04:45 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — When Wilfredo Molina arrived in the U.S. from his native Venezuela, he told border agents he wanted to go to Miami but didn't have an address. They directed him to what he thought was a shelter in midtown Manhattan but turned out to be a ...

  • Scientists are shocked as a tiny endangered sea turtle returns to the Gulf Coast

    Scientists are shocked as a tiny endangered sea turtle returns to the Gulf Coast

    Sep 27, 2022 12:23 PM EDT

    ... means a lot coming from someone who has spent the last 20 years watching over the waters of the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to Texas, managing over a half million acres of coastal wildlife. “I've been in this environment, and I've even seen sea turtles in the ...

  • Trees across the U.S. face dire threats, new report shows

    Trees across the U.S. face dire threats, new report shows

    Aug 28, 2022 09:40 PM EDT

    ... make our cities cooler. Geoff Bennett: Many of the tree species identified as most at risk are in the southern U.S., Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and out west in California. Many are recognizable species Hawthorne, oak and pine, among others. That brings us back to the struggling ash tree ...

  • Bitcoin requires an immense amount of energy. Here's why that's sparking a crypto backlash

    Bitcoin requires an immense amount of energy. Here's why that's sparking a crypto backlash

    Jul 14, 2022 06:13 PM EDT

    ... the demand-response program come from the same pool of money other customers fund when they pay their bills. “We have a saying here in Texas,” Sawicky says. “Don’t piss on my boots and tell me it’s raining. And that’s pretty much what’s going on.” Not ...

  • Florida’s starving manatees fed 55 tons of lettuce after pollution killed seagrass

    Florida’s starving manatees fed 55 tons of lettuce after pollution killed seagrass

    Mar 09, 2022 08:04 PM EDT

    ... the 136 deaths reported in 2020 during the first two months. More than 80 rescued manatees are currently being cared for at facilities in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and Ohio, according to Terri Calleson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some of those are abandoned calves that typically ...

  • Farmers restore native grasslands to combat drying soil

    Farmers restore native grasslands to combat drying soil

    Sep 09, 2021 07:17 PM EDT

    The welcome rain hasn't allayed long-term worries about groundwater and droughts, says Black, the Muleshoe landowner. It came too late to help germinate spring crops, and farmers continued to irrigate. WATCH: Farm owners testify on supply chain in local agricultural markets The Texas Panhandle almost certainly will continue ...

  • Homeland Security to repair damage created by border wall

    Homeland Security to repair damage created by border wall

    May 01, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

    ... Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the Homeland Security Department said. It said it will "quickly repair" the flood barrier system without extending the wall. Hidalgo County, Texas, officials have expressed alarm about flooding risks during the hurricane season starting in June from breaches in a levee system after Biden halted border ...

  • Recovered Midwestern bird soars off endangered species list

    Recovered Midwestern bird soars off endangered species list

    Jan 12, 2021 08:40 PM EDT

    ... is now estimated at more than 18,000, with about 480 nesting sites available in 18 states. The Endangered Species Act requires the Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor the tern for at least five years to make sure its numbers remain stable. The engineering changes have drawn criticism and ...