Record snowfall across much of the western United States has not only helped to alleviate drought -- it has also brought a massive boon for the region's ski resorts, with many hoping to keep their lifts running deep into summer.. I hope so," said local ski enthusiast Ian Burkle, 52.
High up in a dazzlingly white, tree-lined valley of the Rocky Mountains, two scientists armed with skis and clipboards peer at the long hollow tube they have just thrust vertically into a pristine snow drift.. It frequently takes the pair -- via ski, snowshoe or snowmobile -- to beautiful unspoiled peaks and valleys of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming.
The US government announced Tuesday that it is considering imposing across-the-board cuts in usage of the dwindling Colorado River, after squabbling states failed to agree on how to deal with a decades-old problem.. Last year the federal government told Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming to agree on how to reduce their usage by up to 40 percent of the river's flow.
Poachers have killed at least five elephants in the Sahel state of Chad, stoking fears for the country's surviving animals, an NGO said Tuesday.. "Our forces are chasing the poachers who killed them," he said.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters.. Somalia has imposed a security lockdown on Mogadishu for the visit, with most roads closed and public transport restricted.
With wolves descending from the mountains of Wyoming to feast on his cattle, and his home state of Colorado preparing to reintroduce its own wild packs soon, rancher Don Gittleson says he has tried everything to protect his herd.. While wolves can be shot on sight in neighboring Wyoming, they are strictly protected in Colorado, except in self-defense.
Four people were killed and more injured in an avalanche Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.. Nine people apart from the four killed were "involved" in the avalanche, which measured 1,000 metres (yards) long by 100 metres wide, the prefecture of the Haute-Savoie department told AFP. The people involved, whose identities have not yet been determined, were hiking near the Glacier d'Armancette as part of one or several groups.
India's wild tiger population -- by far the largest in the world -- has risen above 3,000, according to a census released Sunday, boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species.. The Indian census estimated there were 3,167 tigers in the wild across the country, up from 2,967 reported in the last such exercise.
A 17-metre-long (56-foot-long) sperm whale died after washing up on a beach in Bali, a conservation official said Sunday, making it the third whale that beached itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week. . "We are currently trying to pull the carcass to the shore to make it easier for the necropsy test and we will bury it after the test is concluded," Permana Yudiarso, a local marine and fisheries official, told AFP Sunday.
On an early spring afternoon, Tregantle Beach is bathed in a dazzling light reminiscent of a painting by British landscape artist JMW Turner as sea, sky and sun merge.. "This beach is particularly polluted because of its geographical location, the sea currents that affect it and its very open shape," he says.
