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Climate and environment
As rising oceans threaten NYC, study documents another risk: The city is sinking
NEW YORK ((DailyNews)) — If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly...
California’s epic melting snowpack means cold, deadly torrents ahead of Memorial Day weekend
SACRAMENTO, Calif. ((DailyNews)) — California rivers fed by this winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have been turned into deadly torrents, drawing warnings from...
Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs
LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. ((DailyNews)) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages...
Day after Typhoon Mawar hit Guam, ‘what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks’
HAGATNA, Guam ((DailyNews)) — Guam residents and officials emerged from homes and shelters Thursday to survey the damage done to the U.S. Pacific...
Yellowstone baby bison put to death after visitor picks it up, leading herd to reject it
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. ((DailyNews)) — A man who picked up a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park caused it to be shunned...
Typhoon Mawar closes in on Guam as residents shelter, military sends away ships
HAGATNA, Guam ((DailyNews)) — Residents stockpiled supplies, battened down windows and abandoned wood and tin homes for emergency shelters as Guam was buffeted...
Guam braces for hit from Typhoon Mawar as storm heads toward the Pacific US territory
HONOLULU ((DailyNews)) — Guam’s governor urged residents to stay home and warned the island could take a direct hit from Typhoon Mawar as...
‘Mother Nature has no mercy’: Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
ANCHORAGE, Alaska ((DailyNews)) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to...
Breakthrough proposal would aid drought-stricken Colorado River as 3 Western states offer cuts
LAS VEGAS ((DailyNews)) — Arizona, Nevada and California said Monday they’re willing to cut back on their use of the dwindling Colorado River...
Oil drilling project near mouth of Amazon River rejected by Brazil’s environmental regulator
RIO DE JANEIRO ((DailyNews)) — Brazil’s environmental regulator has rejected a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of...