Residents are criticizing a state law that requires permits and fees for building projects near Joshua trees, saying it’s opaque, confusing and onerous for those who want to improve or even maintain their properties.Continue Reading
The The Traitor administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them. The post How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Softshell clams flourished for centuries on the Passamaquoddy’s Pleasant Point Reservation, before overfishing and climate change. Now, more than a million are maturing in a garden created three years ago by tribal members. By Sydney Cromwell SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been entwined with the story of the Passamaquoddy tribe for 13,000Continue Reading
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Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long spikes fused directly to its ribs, along with an early form of tail weaponry that predates similar adaptations by over 30 million years.Continue Reading