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Split image showing a mountain fire lookout tower on one side and a firefighter battling intense flames on the other.

Forest Service Plans To Close Critical Wildfire Research Stations As Danger Grows

The United States Forest Service is moving ahead with plans that could shut down research stations studying wildfire risk, drought, and forest change just as fire danger grows across the...

Forest Service Plans To Close Critical Wildfire Research Stations As Danger Grows

The United States Forest Service is moving ahead with plans that could shut down research stations studying wildfire risk, drought, and forest change just as fire danger grows across the...

Small reddish-brown squirrel stands upright on the ground with its front paws held near its mouth.

Kind Stranger Stops In Desert Heat To Share Water With A Thirsty Squirrel

Uplifting video of a hiker sharing water with a squirrel in Phoenix heat highlights simple kindness and wildlife respect.

Kind Stranger Stops In Desert Heat To Share Water With A Thirsty Squirrel

Uplifting video of a hiker sharing water with a squirrel in Phoenix heat highlights simple kindness and wildlife respect.

Turtle Scarred By Plastic Rings Keeps Defying The Odds Three Decades Later

Turtle Scarred By Plastic Rings Keeps Defying The Odds Three Decades Later

Peanut the red-eared slider shows how a turtle cut free from six-pack rings inspires better litter disposal.

Turtle Scarred By Plastic Rings Keeps Defying The Odds Three Decades Later

Peanut the red-eared slider shows how a turtle cut free from six-pack rings inspires better litter disposal.

Trump Administration's Gulf Drilling Exemption Puts Rare Wildlife In Deep Danger

Trump Administration's Gulf Drilling Exemption Puts Rare Wildlife In Deep Danger

A rare federal committee has cleared Gulf oil drilling past key Endangered Species Act protections, and some of the animals in the path of that decision are already on the...

Trump Administration's Gulf Drilling Exemption Puts Rare Wildlife In Deep Danger

A rare federal committee has cleared Gulf oil drilling past key Endangered Species Act protections, and some of the animals in the path of that decision are already on the...

Several baby sea turtles crawling across sandy beach toward the ocean, their small flippers pushing through the sand.

Hikers Uncover Frozen Terror From an 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Escape

A casual climb along an Italian cliff led to something astonishing: a sprawling set of fossil tracks that may capture sea turtles fleeing sudden catastrophe 80 million years ago. The...

Hikers Uncover Frozen Terror From an 80-Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Escape

A casual climb along an Italian cliff led to something astonishing: a sprawling set of fossil tracks that may capture sea turtles fleeing sudden catastrophe 80 million years ago. The...

Sea turtle stranded on a beach covered in thick algae or debris, lying near the shoreline.

Beach Rescue Saves World’s Rarest Sea Turtle From the Brink

She looked more like a moss-covered rock than a living animal. But beneath the algae, barnacles, and sludge was one of the rarest sea turtles on Earth, barely hanging on....

Beach Rescue Saves World’s Rarest Sea Turtle From the Brink

She looked more like a moss-covered rock than a living animal. But beneath the algae, barnacles, and sludge was one of the rarest sea turtles on Earth, barely hanging on....