She has spent more than 30 years studying the endangered Kemp’s Ridley turtles and successfully managed a hatchling program that is rebuilding their population in Texas. More opportunities like these abound for us to be stewards for our local waters. The next adventure Diving all 50 states ...
The mountain lion ran away, and the bear went back down on all fours. according to Biggs, the bear made eye contact with Biggs before regrouping with her young. Biggs - who had been hiking the same two-mile trail in the Bean Soup Flat area for years -- left with a few scratches an...
The Record says: "This exhibits as refined and city-like propensities on the part of our crime-committing population as any city or town the size of this in the Union. As an evidence of our prosperity and the efficiency of our police we are proud of it; as an interesting item we welco...
North America is home to an incredibly diverse range of wildlife, from iconic creatures like the American bison and bald eagle to lesser-known species like the mountainlionand prairie dog. But there are some animals that are so rare that they’re rarely seen or even known to the general pub...
The city's moment of glory, however, did not last long: when the seeds of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) - endemic to the Amazon region - were smuggled out of South America to Southeast Asia, the rubber boom came to an abrupt end, causing loss of population and widespread poverty...
Joe is the embodiment of what the vast majority of hardworking young Chinese students resent about the present state of Chinese society, where the population, economic growth, and socioeconomic gap creates an atmosphere of ultra competitiveness. Joe is the beneficiary of what we in the Western wo...
on a remote mountain… called Sandak.Brad Gordon: This was hit very heavily by the looting gangs.Brad Gordon: They found gold, they found statues, they found many, many things.Nearly all of Cambodia's 4,000 temples have been looted.60 MinutesThat's Brad Gordon, ...
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Virginia and Oklahoma. Florida and Louisiana currently have the largest population of alligators. Florida has an estimated population of 1 to 1.5 million while Louisiana has an estimated population of 1.5 to 2 million...
Finally, it should be noted the present country of Russia is different in size and population from the former Soviet Union. It also should be noted in August of 1991 the Ukraine became an independent democratic country. In short, that was then, this is now. This brings up the conundrum ...
(Figure 4).7 Yet the unauthorized- immigrant population of the United States has roughly tripled in size over the past two decades, from an estimated 3.5 million in 1990 to 11.9 mil- lion in 2008 (Figure 5).8 The number of unauthor- ized immigrants in the country appears to hav...