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Yosemite National Park will celebrate the 96th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS) by holding a series of activities focused on “What NPS Rangers do” on Saturday, August 25, 2012. The activities will be held at the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. and will …

Thanks to warmer temperatures, nearly all of the baby sea turtles hatching on a South Florida beach are turning out female. The dominance of the female reptiles on Boca Raton’s … Click to Continue »

Thousands of firefighters and nearly a dozen aircraft pummeled the raging Detwiler Fire this week even as the fast-moving inferno consumed thousands of acres of wild land in Mariposa County … Click to Continue »

Many residents are making their yards more water efficient in order to contribute to California’s mandatory water regulations. Some homeowners have taken out their lawns to put in paving stone and plants that are more water efficient. "A lot of paving stones, landscaping with decorative rock… more drought tolerant products," …

Where water should be flowing, a dry irrigation ditch is filled instead with a row of shacks–yet another sign of the drought. "Because of the problem right now that the state is facing of water deliveries not coming in where the farms [could be] producing crops and could more or less put people to …