A year after the devastation from Idaho's worst wildfire, Governor Otter has drummed up support for a statewide, citizen-led volunteer effort to rehabilitate torched lands by replanting it with millions of sagebrush seeds, a plant critical to the local habitat, which will provide shelter and food for wildlife while preventing erosion. Just how bad was […]
An Idaho zoo gained notoriety a few months ago when a four-year-old elk started acting strangely at his water trough. Baffled zookeepers watched as the animal tried to dip his hooves into his drinking trough, before attempting to dunk his whole head in the water. Then they were amazed as 10ft tall Shooter lifted his head from the trough clutching a local marmot between his jaws.
The Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation Center near Boise has saved nearly 150 orphaned black bears since its opening in 1989.
More endangered sockeye salmon have made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho's high-elevation Redfish Lake this year than in the previous six decades.
Iceland is creating the world's first hydrogen-based economy, with hydrogen fueling stations and power plants serving all sides of the island.
Facing pressure from universities and student groups, the apparel maker Nike announced on Monday that it would pay $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories and failed to fulfill severance contracts.
The rivals for power in Honduras agreed on Friday to hold more talks to seek a solution to the crisis created by last month's coup, keeping alive hopes that dialogue would prevail over confrontation. "Both sides have agreed to continue talks in the shortest time possible and not rest until they reach an agreement to […]
A surge in new nesting Hawaiian hawksbill sea turtles over the past several years may be evidence that a 20-year-old effort to protect beach habitats is finally producing more baby turtles.
Hawaii is standing up for sharks, and in a big way. Despite the pressure from the vocal Asian community that insists on eating shark fin soup, the Hawaii legislature passed a bill that would prohibit the possession, sale, or distribution of shark fins of any kind anywhere within the state as of July 1st, 2010. The governor is expected to sign the bill, which drew praise from Native Hawaiians whose culture reveres sharks as guardian spirits in animal form.
By now, it's hardly news when a city bans plastic bags at checkout counters -- but an entire state? That's happened in Hawaii, where Honolulu County has joined the state's three other counties to give Hawaii a first-in-the-nation title after a two-year campaign.
The United States will forgive about 20 percent of the $122 million debt owed by Guatemala so the money can be used to protect threatened plants and wildlife, said the government yesterday.
"Ghana has adopted a new peace plan dubbed National Architecture for Peace" to foster "respect for the rule of law, transparency, accountability and free and fair elections", which have been achieved for the past seven years and lead to a durable internal peace.
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