Swaner EcoCenter welcomes baby sandhill crane The fluffy sandhill crane chick hatched Wednesday and is expected to stay in the nest for the next few days. In a Facebook post the preserve says sandhill crane chicks, or colts, are mobile as soon as ... 05/2/2024 - 10:36 am | View Link
Prescribed fire scheduled at Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge MGNThe U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is planning to conduct a prescribed burn May 2nd at the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. The potential burn site consists of 336 acres located ... 05/2/2024 - 8:49 am | View Link
Pasco County resident fighting to protect sandhill cranes “The sandhill cranes forage on low grass right by the road and as they cross the road, they have been getting hit by cars,” said Lexie Vanderweit. Vanderweit has a passion for protecting sandhill ... 04/30/2024 - 12:43 am | View Link
Sandhill crane family in the Village of Pine Ridge This sandhill crane colt was trying to keep up with his parents in the Village of Pine Ridge. Thanks to Carol Aslan for sharing! 04/20/2024 - 2:35 pm | View Link
Neighbors work to save sandhill cranes after baby hit, killed by car: 'It's getting worse' Cars keep killing sandhill cranes, and devastated neighbors are working together to try and prevent more deaths. 04/19/2024 - 4:54 pm | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.