St. George mayor vows to fight Biden admin decision on controversial highway through desert tortoise habitat
It is part of an effort to ditch the use of drinking water for outdoor watering and replace it with treated wastewater. The ...
From East TN to Madagascar, Knoxville zoologist helps save endangered tortoise species
Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.
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32,000-square-foot commercial building planned near The Villages
A 32,000-square-foot commercial building is planned near The Villages. Villages-News.com's Marv Balousek has the story.
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the ...
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11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises ... sunlight to boilers atop 459-foot towers. The sun’s power is used to ...
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The Very Best Electric Foot Massagers
You don’t have to work on your feet all day to appreciate the relaxing benefits of a foot massage. But if you do stand, walk, dance, or run for a living, buying yourself an at-home electric foot ...
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Thousands of endangered tortoises rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded
Flood waters a meter (3.2 feet) high engulfed the sanctuary, and the tortoises — many of them mere whippersnappers in the tortoise world at about 25-50 years old — were carried away.