St. George mayor vows to fight Biden admin decision on controversial highway through desert tortoise habitat
One of St. George Mayor Michele Randall’s main focuses over the coming year will be working with state and county leaders to ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises ... create the image of a shimmering lake atop the desert floor, but depending ...
USA Today15d
Public land in Mojave Desert just named as California's newest national monument
The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish.
Las Vegas Sun17d
As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows
the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...
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Thousands of endangered tortoises are rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...
Science News23d
Lake Turns to Desert When Unwisely Drained
We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...
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How Tiptoe the tortoise escaped the Palisades Fire just in time
That’s the phrase caretaker Caitlin Doran uses to describe Palisades local and internet celebrity Tiptoe the tortoise, and the community she loves so much. The 23-year-old African Sulcata ...
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Magnitude 3.4 quake recorded in remote desert between Lake Powell, Escalante
GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook the red rocks of a very remote are of Southern Utah early Tuesday morning, with an epicenter located about 17 miles southeast of ...
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U-Haul breaks through ice on Echo Lake in Mount Desert
MOUNT DESERT, Maine — A man was rescued early Saturday morning after the U-Haul truck he was driving crashed through the ice on Echo Lake in Mount Desert. The driver of the 10-foot box truck, ...
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Man drives truck onto Echo Lake ice, gets stranded
MOUNT DESERT, Maine (WGME) -- Police say that a man driving a rented U-Haul truck broke through the ice on Echo Lake in Mount Desert on Saturday. At around 4:45 a.m., a 75-year-old man reportedly ...
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Man, 75, rescued after crashing U-Haul through ice on Mount Desert Island lake
Learn more. A 75-year-old man was rescued early Saturday morning after breaking through the ice on Echo Lake on Mount Desert Island while driving a rented U-Haul. Crews from Mount Desert Fire and ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal28d
Solar project outside of Las Vegas moves closer to construction
Among the organizations that submitted protest comments were Nye County, the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Desert Tortoise Council. All were denied or dismissed.