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This week’s feature is a report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Beth Edwards on spreading invasive pests by transporting firewood.
A property contaminated with uranium, PCBs and other toxic chemicals from an abandoned Manhattan Project contract facility has undergone repeated shoreline collapses into the Detroit River in Michigan.
The EPA recently reauthorized the use of poisonous so-called cyanide bombs to kill unwanted wild predators, such as coyotes, foxes and feral dogs, that could threaten privately owned livestock.
Climate justice activists delayed the annual, iconic Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven, Connecticut, for nearly an hour on November twenty-third by rushing the field at the end of halftime.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was criticized for a proposed policy shift on offshore drilling panned as a “sweetheart giveaway” for a former client.
Chronic wasting disease is a serious neurological disease affecting white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. It has been found recently in free-ranging white-tailed deer in several Midwestern states close to Indiana, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.
During a hunting trip in Mongolia last August, Donald Trump Jr. shot and killed an endangered argali sheep and received a permit only after the fact.
More than twenty thousand sandhill cranes are in their southern migration that cuts through the Midwest. The most popular gathering space in Indiana in the fall is Indiana’s Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Refuge.
The DNR says there have been thirty-one armadillo sightings so far in Indiana. Most have been in the southern part of the state, but one occurred along the Indiana Tollway in Porter County. If you see one—dead or alive—The DNR requests that you get in touch with them.
