Amid historic, climate change-driven drought, the federal government shut down the water supply from the Upper Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border.
Amid historic, climate change-driven drought, the federal government shut down the water supply from the Upper Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border. CNN's Lucy Kafanov reports.
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The offshore wind industry has struggled to get a toehold on the West Coast, even as projects begin to take off on the Atlantic Seaboard. Ocean breezes could play a big role in transitioning the Western electric grid off fossil fuels, especially because the region’s offshore gusts blow strong after sundown, as Anna M. Phillips, Rosanna Xia and I wrote for The Times.
Still, here was a major hitch on my mind while reporting this story. As much potential as there is in offshore wind, it’s one of the best examples of an inconvenient truth: that renewable energy facilities are often seen as terrible eyesores.
Bundy isn’t registered to vote and has been banned from the Idaho state capitol for a year from last August after he was arrested there twice in two days. Although he hasn’t made up his mind to run, Bundy told NBC News that he wants to begin building an organization for a possible candidacy.
“The people of Idaho are very freedom-minded,” Bundy said. “I had never desired [running for office], but I knew as early as 2017 that I would run for governor of Idaho.”
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Anti-government agitator Ammon Bundy, who took over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge with a band of followers in 2016, has filed paperwork to run for governor of Idaho.
Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Springâs Avian Parade
For birders across the United States, itâs a rite of spring: heading out to woodlands and waterways to track down a favorite warbler, vireo, tanager or other bird, many of them migratory.
An Eastern bluebird at the Greenwich Audubon Center in Greenwich, Conn. Eastern bluebirds are found in the East and Midwest; at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin, for instance, sightings of them spike beginning in late April.Credit.Jane Beiles for The New York Times
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We asked five birding enthusiasts to give us a rundown on where to go and what bird species to look for in five regions of the United States. All you need are binoculars and a good field guide.