sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - environment

They're not Godzilla size but large, nonnative lizards in two South Florida counties are being hunted down after alarming humans, including a homeowner who found one that slipped through a doggie door.

- Before, during and now after, Sunday night’s UFC Live 4 on the Versus Network was a wild one.

During a spring of disasters — tornadoes, flooding, wildfires and drought across the U.S. (not to mention Japan's quake/tsunami) — you might have asked yourself: Is there any place that's safe?

From a hike through the Belgian woods to a doggie flash mob held concurrently in New York and San Diego and linked via Skype, dog lovers around the world have been digging up unusual ways to celebrate the 13th annual Take Your Dog to Work Day on Friday, June 24.

French environmental activist Jose Bove urged Poland's government Thursday to abandon its plans to build nuclear power plants and explore for shale gas.

With the Paris Air Show less than a week away, Airbus has unveiled its vision of the in-flight experience of the future.

The Texas Legislature ended its regular session with a mixed bag of environmental rules, passing some bills that put it ahead of the nation and others that are bound to infuriate the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

As residents confront a gigantic cleanup following the tornado that savaged Joplin, experts say environmental dangers could lurk amid the mountains of debris in the southwestern Missouri city and even in the water and air.

It's moving and mating season for Florida's estimated 1.3 million alligators, and experts are warning locals as well as tourists to stay out of the way.

They deserve this for living in a floodplain. That's the easy response to the evacuations of thousands as Louisiana's Cajun country becomes an outlet for Mississippi River waters that would otherwise swamp New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

For the last several years, Dorian Lake, 8, occasionally awakes at night, bolts up in his bed and begins shrieking loudly. When his parents rush to his bed, "he’ll be screaming like we’re not there, almost fighting me off, says his mother Belinda Edmondson, Montclair, N.J. "He’ll say ‘there are snakes, there are snakes.’ He’ll push the bedcovers off. Then he’ll fall back asleep.”

You never know what fool will pick up a stun gun and decide to "Tase-and-release" a wild animal with it. That's why Alaska decided to act before the scenario unfolded: Starting July 1 it will be illegal to do just that.

NEW YORK - Having your bills mailed to you month after month is bad for the environment. But many of us can't break the practice because paper statements are key to our financial housekeeping.

It's a heave-ho, U.S. Navy style. After several years during which turning old warships into artificial reefs was fashionable, four decommissioned aircraft carriers will instead be dismantled, and recycled, at shipyards.

Researchers in Alaska are planning a strategy to attack an invasive species with a heck of a nasty nickname: rock vomit.

Pollution in China remains very serious as the country's rapid economic growth brings on new environmental problems, with nearly 1,000 contamination incidents in the last five years, a minister said Saturday.

Just hours after police and representatives of his estranged wife turned up on his doorstep to enforce an emergency court order to remove his 23-month-old twin sons from his Los Angeles mansion, a visibly angry but surprisingly measured Charlie Sheen said that he had no idea where his children were, but vowed that he would get them back. “At this moment, on live TV, I do not know where my children are,” the actor said.