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Key Deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer that have thrived in the piney and marshy wetlands of the Florida Keys, interact as they walk through a residential neighborhood Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Big Pine Key, Fla.

Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise

Key Deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer that have thrived in the piney and marshy wetlands of the Florida Keys, interact as they walk through a residential neighborhood Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Big Pine Key, Fla.

November 10, 2024, 5:39am Life

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — The world’s only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney and marshy wetlands bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico on the Florida Keys. For years, their biggest threat was being struck by vehicles speeding along… Read story

To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

November 10, 2024, 5:34am Business

Over her 25 years living in a quiet suburban mobile home park, Kristi Peterman got to know the neighbors directly next door and a few across the street. Read story

Golden mussels attached to a rock. Golden mussels, an invasive freshwater bivalve that has devastated ecosystems and critical water infrastructure in other parts of the world, were recently discovered near the Port of Stockton in California.

Invasive mussel found in North America for first time, poses immediate threat in California’s delta

Golden mussels attached to a rock. Golden mussels, an invasive freshwater bivalve that has devastated ecosystems and critical water infrastructure in other parts of the world, were recently discovered near the Port of Stockton in California.

November 10, 2024, 5:34am Nation & World

A particularly-worrisome mussel species has snuck into North America for the first time through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — sparking what many are calling an immediate threat to California’s most significant watersheds. Read story

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign.

The world promised to tame methane. Emissions are still rising

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign.

November 10, 2024, 5:31am Business

Sitting in his cramped office in Paris, Manfredi Caltagirone admits that one of the world’s highest-profile efforts to cut methane emissions so far isn’t stopping the gas from escaping and warming the atmosphere. Read story

According to the American Bar Association, immigration lawyers in the U.S. are fielding a larger than usual number of questions about getting a second passport or obtaining permanent residency abroad.

How to get dual citizenship in Ireland, Italy or another country

According to the American Bar Association, immigration lawyers in the U.S. are fielding a larger than usual number of questions about getting a second passport or obtaining permanent residency abroad.

November 10, 2024, 5:30am Nation & World

For one reason or another, Americans occasionally find themselves asking what steps are needed to become a citizen of another country. According to the American Bar Association, immigration lawyers in the U.S. are fielding a larger than usual number of questions about getting a second passport or obtaining permanent residency… Read story

This Tuesday, June 14, 2016 photo Leo Block, left, Matari Phason, center, and Brian Juarez, right, push part of a shipment of 20,000 water bottles donated by Yellow Cab of Phoenix to Central Arizona Shelter Services, Arizona&#039;s largest homeless shelter, to help prepare for the summer heat in Phoenix, Ariz.

Arizona voters back homeless crackdown. Will other states follow?

This Tuesday, June 14, 2016 photo Leo Block, left, Matari Phason, center, and Brian Juarez, right, push part of a shipment of 20,000 water bottles donated by Yellow Cab of Phoenix to Central Arizona Shelter Services, Arizona&#039;s largest homeless shelter, to help prepare for the summer heat in Phoenix, Ariz.

November 9, 2024, 12:41pm Nation & World

Arizona voters have approved a first-in-the-nation ballot initiative intended to force local police to crack down harder on homeless encampments. Read story

Julieta Gomez a kelp restoration specialist looks over a sample of bull kelp growing in an outdoor tank Oct. 9 at The UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute&rsquo;s Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. Kelp forests vanished off the northern California coast a decade ago.

Scientists are growing kelp one forest at a time; braving sharks and hordes of urchins, researchers dive in

Julieta Gomez a kelp restoration specialist looks over a sample of bull kelp growing in an outdoor tank Oct. 9 at The UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute&rsquo;s Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. Kelp forests vanished off the northern California coast a decade ago.

November 9, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast… Read story

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association.

Catholic hospitals look more like megacorporations – absence of nuns in top roles in raises questions

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association.

November 9, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion

Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Read story

Private jets sit parked at Scottsdale Airport in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Ross D.

Carbon pollution from high-flying rich in private jets soars

Private jets sit parked at Scottsdale Airport in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Ross D.

November 9, 2024, 6:04am Business

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds. Read story

Members of the V battalion of the military emergency unit, UME, use a canoe to search the area for bodies washed away by the floods in the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.

Research boat will scan seabed for victims of flood in Spain

Members of the V battalion of the military emergency unit, UME, use a canoe to search the area for bodies washed away by the floods in the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024.

November 9, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to take on a new job: helping in the increasingly desperate search for the missing from Spain’s floods. Read story