Environment

Conservationists Challenge Helicopter Intrusions In Premiere Wilderness Area

A coalition of conservationists, represented by Earthjustice, Thursday filed a legal challenge to the decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to conduct approximately 120 helicopter landings in the...

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Company Abandons Crude Oil As Part Of Shipping Expansion Plan In Grays Harbor

One of the three companies proposing crude oil shipping terminals in Grays Harbor said it will abandon its plans to handle crude oil in comments submitted to state and local agencies in late November 2015. The company’s comments state “REG has...

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EPA Releases the First of Four Preliminary Risk Assessments for Insecticides Potentially Harmful to Bees

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a preliminary pollinator risk assessment for the neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, which shows a threat to some pollinators. EPA’s assessment, prepared in collaboration with California’s...

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CU-Boulder Libraries, NSIDC win grant to digitize historical Glacier Photograph Collection

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An explorer nears a crevasse on Stockje Glacier in the Pennine Alps, Europe in 1894.

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