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Trump administration reverses ban on importing trophies from elephant hunts in two African nations

August 22, 2019 at 1:40 a.m.

The Trump administration announced late Wednesday that the remains of elephants legally hunted in Zimbabwe and Zambia can now be imported to the United States as trophies, reversing a ban...

A monarch butterfly feeds on a plant at the Sierra Chincua sanctuary on December 18, 2015 in Angangueo, Mexico.

Monarch butterfly, manatee populations are on a big rebound

June 22, 2019 at 9:12 a.m.

It was a big week for two hardship cases in the animal kingdom - manatees and monarch butterflies. Both are on the rebound. On Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

NIH vowed to move its research chimps from labs, but only 7 got safe haven in 2015

June 21, 2019 at 6:50 a.m.

Nearly three years after the National Institutes of Health announced that hundreds of chimpanzees held for invasive medical experiments would be retired to a sanctuary, relatively few have been so...

Aerial view overlooking landscaping on April 4, 2015 in San Diego, California. Gov. Jerry Brown has demanded a 25 percent cut in urban water useage due to a severe drought affecting much of California and the West.

As water runs dry, Californians brace for a new way of life

June 21, 2019 at 2:42 p.m.

His lawn was thick, healthy and gorgeous, and Mike Duran was in love. "It was so green. It was so lush," he said. But the relationship had financial issues. Watering...

A view up Navarre Road shows the damage by Hurricane Dennis when it washed over Santa Rosa Island at Navarre Beach, Florida, Monday, July 11, 2005.

Rise in government insurance rates to mirror rising waters, flood debt

June 25, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

At her small beach house that sits in a flood zone, Nancy Loft-Powers worries. The prospect of rising water, she said, isn't what bothers her. It's the expected rise in...

Thousands of people descended on Washington to demand justice on December 13, 2014 for black men who have died at the hands of white police officers, the latest in weeks of demonstrations across the United States.

Thousands of protesters march through D.C., New York, Chicago, Boston

August 18, 2019 at 6:26 p.m.

In a strong display of unity after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the relatives of African Americans killed by officers in similar incidents dating back...

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