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  Commentary: The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) supports the effort in the United States Congress to pass legislation funding orphan well plugging. Both the House and Senate have now introduced companion bills on this important issue with leadership from New Mexico’s delegation. EMNRD applauds Senator Ben Ray Luján for co-sponsoring the Senate bill with Senator Cramer of North Dakota and Representative Teresa Leger Fernández for sponsoring the House bill. The bills will provide federal funding for oil-producing states to plug and reclaim orphaned ...

STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI: The "Manas Tigers Team", a mobile patrol team has won the prestigious International Ranger Award (IRA), 2021 for its unique to save tigers and increase the animal's population. The IRA is developed collaboratively between the IUCN, WCPA, the International Ranger Federation, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Conservation Allies, which was created in 2020, with an aim to highlight and felicitate the extraordinary work that rangers do in protected and conserved areas worldwide. In 2021, ten outstanding winners were selected from among 113 nominations across 43 co...

Protecting a threatened species unique to our region Tablelands Telegraph - April 2021 In December 2019, the large Gosper's Mountain bushfire threatened...

Cluster of earthquakes in east Wichita shake south-central Kansas early Sunday morning Jason Tidd, The Wichita Eagle Mar. 14—Update: A fifth earthquake — the strongest of Sunday's cluster — was reported at around 6:08 p.m. The U.S. Geological Survey listed it as a 3.9 magnitude. The epicenter was just north of 13th Street, about half way between Rock and Webb. Did you feel it? Let the USGS know here. Original story: If you were woken up earlier than you would have liked Sunday morning after losing an hour to daylight savings time, it may have been due to earthquakes that...

Model developed for precise count of leopard population Scientists from Aaranyak, Panthera, and WWF-India have developed a model called ‘Spatial Mark-Resight’ (SMR) to precisely estimate the population size 'SPATIAL MARK-RESIGHT' STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI: Scientists from Aaranyak, Panthera, and WWF-India have developed a model called 'Spatial Mark-Resight' (SMR) to precisely estimate the population size of leopards where the population is a mix of the rosette (common) and melanistic (different) leopards. "Like the tigers, the leopards can be also individually identified with the help of...