Tag: Animals
SpaceX launches tiny critters, solar panels to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a toothpaste-fighting plaque experiment...
Wandering elephants on edge of China city, now closing roads
BEIJING — A wandering herd of elephants has reached the edge of a big Chinese city as authorities rush to close off roads and...
‘Stand your ground’ defense rejected in iguana killing
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A judge has rejected the “stand your ground” defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana...
Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen
Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found.
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EXPLAINER: The suspension of Arctic refuge drilling leases
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Decades-long political and legal battles over drilling in America’s largest wildlife refuge took another turn when the Biden administration suspended oil...
China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first
BEIJING — A man in eastern China has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu,...
Milkweed planted in California to help monarch butterflies
SAN FRANCISCO — A conservation group is planting more than 30,000 milkweed plants in California in the hope of giving Western monarch butterflies new...
Louisiana coast still hurting from storms, bracing for more
CAMERON, La. — Scores of people in coastal Louisiana are still living in campers on dirt mounds or next to cement slabs where their...
Marijuana legalization prompting police K-9 retirements
RICHMOND, Va. — Asking dogs to follow their noses won't work anymore in states that have legalized marijuana.
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Woman arrested at US border with sloth, crocodile parts
HIGHGATE SPRINGS, Vt. — A Montreal woman has been arrested on charges of trying to cross the U.S. border into Canada with “numerous undeclared...