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Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots
The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes ...
Falcons mount a comeback _ with some help
Four decades ago, watching a peregrine falcon soaring through the sky east of the Mississippi River wasn't possible. The fast-flying raptors hovered on the brink of extinction after widespread use of the pesticide DDT reduced their ability to produce viable eggs. By the 1960s, the peregrine population had declined to ...
Florida oyster farm may be start of new industry
Under a brilliant blue sky, a wet-suit-clad Clay Lovel drops down into waist-deep water, groping in the cloudy jade brine. He tosses away a predatory conch before his older brother Ben, on deck, grabs a hook, and together they haul aboard their Carolina Skiff what looks like an oversized fry ...
US judge in Microsoft antitrust case dies at 76
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died. Jackson died at his home in Compton, Md., his wife Patricia told The Associated Press on Sunday. He was 76 and ...
Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform
Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land repeatedly switched hands before being sold to a businessman. Nearly a decade later, a court in April returned the 770-acre (310-hectare) farm, ...
Arkansas farmers picking up sesame growing
A new crop option for Arkansas farmers is exploding in the Delta — and maybe onto breads and salads. Sesame seeds acreage in the southeastern United States has risen from about 2,500 in 2012 to about 60,000 this year, according to farmer David Hodges, who has planted 300 to 400 ...
Groups offer reward for info on missing grizzly
Two conservation groups are offering to pay $6,500 in reward for information leading to the arrest and a conviction in the case of a grizzly bear killed near the Idaho-Montana border last fall. Since the bear's disappearance, the Western Watersheds Project and Cottonwood Environmental Law Center have been trying to ...
Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots
The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes ...
Irrigated vegetable farm in the works
Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes has returned to Mohave County, but instead of planting houses in the Golden Valley and Red Lake areas, he's planting peppers, tomatoes and pickles. Rhodes' newest company, Kingman Farms, has started breaking ground on a 200-acre commercial vegetable farm off of Aztec Road behind the ...
SD officials work to keep wild hogs out of state
South Dakota wildlife officials want to send wild pigs crying all the way home. The state does not currently have an established population of feral pigs, but that appears to be changing. Just a handful of years ago, feral pigs were an easily ignored problem to the south. They weren't ...
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