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Millions Lost in Montana: How Federal Oil & Gas Leasing Terms Cost Taxpayers
5+ hour, 41+ min ago (768+ words) While Montana is not among the nation’s largest producers of oil and gas from federal lands, it still has 1.4 million acres currently leased and millions of dollars’ worth of oil and gas produced every year. As a result, federal policies…...
Trump Administration Opens Endangered Species’ Habitats To Development, Reversing 50 Years Of Environmental Law
45+ min ago (418+ words) By Ella Nilsen, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, farming and real estate development. The Trump administration…...
Federal researchers using driftwood to study and track seabird deaths off N.S. coast
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (175+ words) Winnipeg 26° C, Cloudy HALIFAX – Federal researchers want to know where dead seabirds off the coast of Nova Scotia are most likely to wash up, and they’re using a low-tech solution to find out: driftwood. Environment and Climate Change Canada has…...
War and economic crisis complicate efforts to protect Iran’s rich but endangered wildlife
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (1000+ words) The bombardment during the war on Iran earlier this year coincided with the breeding season for Iran’s cherished Saker and red-naped Shaheen falcons, some of the fastest flying birds in the world. He knew of two nests near military bases…...
WA tribes, conservation groups sue over Trump endangered species rule
9+ min ago (313+ words) Northwest tribal nations and conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, challenging a new rule that aims to eliminate habitat protections for imperiled species. For more than fifty years, degradation or destruction of habitat that impairs, kills or injures threatened…...
RAF Barnham asylum plan could be stalled by rare birds
37+ min ago (803+ words) Protected stone-curlews might impact plans to house migrants on the RAF Barnham site Plans to house asylum seekers at a military base would be illegal due to the site being home to a rare, protected bird, a councillor has said....
Rare critically endangered eagle ray spotted in Croatian Adriatic amid unusual sightings
23+ min ago (364+ words) PULA, 14 July 2026 – A critically endangered bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus), also known as the bull ray or duckbill eagle ray, has been spotted in Valkane Bay in Pula, adding to a series of unusual sightings of the species in the northern…...
Prestigious funding for coral research and historic maritime trade project
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (383+ words) The University of Southampton has been awarded over €9m (£8m) for three major research projects. Two will investigate corals and our warming climate – the third will delve into the history of maritime trade in Europe. European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants are…...
Haven or trap? Study finds sinkholes protect endangered tree at evolutionary cost
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (306+ words) image: A typical karst tiankeng landscape in Leye, Guangxi, southwest China. view more Credit: Image by TANG Jianmin Are giant sinkholes in China’s karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they…...
Cattlemen's Column: The original conservationists - Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
52+ min ago (230+ words) Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association To Honor and Protect the Ranching Way of Life By Jason Sawyer, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association vice chair of natural resources and wildlife committee Across Texas and the Southwest, generations of land stewards have…...