Right now, there are 700 wildfires burning in California — many unattended. Fire departments are working with skeleton crews. Residents are literally being told they’re on their own. Where are the resources to save homes and lives?
We appreciate your efforts in the past week to try and obtain the needed resources to fight the fires in Trinity County. However after five days, there are still few if any resources on any of the eighteen or so fires threatening our home and…
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The uncontacted tribes in the forest borderlands of Peru and Brazil, such as those pictured last week pointing a bow and arrow at a plane, are facing a threat from something beyond their wildest imagining
The 711-mile Trans-Oceanic Highway, which will eventually link the Amazon river ports of Brazil with the Pacific ones of Peru, is the biggest threat to the indigenous peoples – uncontacted or otherwise – in that part of…
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Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky.
It’s a full three kilometres to the other side and at that distance even the forest giants that tower over the canopy seem reduced in size.
The Amazon landscape is epic in scale Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky. It's a full three kilometres to the other side and at that…
Different temperatures, humidities and ambient temperatures make different snowflake shapes. And people can’t figure out how to predict which snowflakes will form at all, pretty much.
“I'll be ready for spring, I'll just say that,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Rodriguez, a recent transplant to Chicago from Kansas. Still, to some people — scientists, say, or those with indoor…
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The tribe ? whose first contact with the modern world was less than 40 years ago ? are replacing their bows and arrows with hi-tech gadgets in their battle for survival. They have already begun using satnav on their traditional trails through the trees. And Google Earth has just agreed to provide high-resolution satellite images of their forest hom
For countless centuries the nomadic people – who call themselves Paiter, meaning simply “we ourselves” – lived far from the outside world, until the official “first contact” with Brazilian authorities on 7…
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A current phenomenon in hiking is the availability of trails really close to urban centers. Lots of cities have a big push to bring hiking and other recreational opportunities closer to where people live. Here are the 10 americas most spectacular day hikes.
Trails vary in difficulty from short, accessible interpretive loops to longer, steep narrow trails that challenge even experienced hikers. Have fun exploring places like Lava Canyon, the Plains of Abraham, Spirit Lake, Ape Caves, Johnson Ridge,…
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At least two wildlife preserves will be forced to close down due to the new border fence between The U.S. and Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security is circumventing 30 environmental laws and regulations to build the fence.
“If I can't stay here, then I'm sure the conservancy would close the place down,” said Pons, who started visiting the property in 1980 in college and began working for the conservancy in 2002. Someone needs to be there to monitor…
Fully autonomous fire fighting robots the size of St. Bernard’s coming to a forest near you?
Only a concept now, OLE (short for Off-road Loescheinheit,? which means off-road extinguishing apparatus? in German) is a product of the industrial-design studio at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal, about an…
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