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The state is donating 11 acres of land to Black Mountain for a new emergency operations center. Black Mountain town officials are proposing a “multi-purpose emergency services station” on the site, state records show. It would be used to train firefighters, law enforcement and emergency managers, according to the documents. Town manager Josh Harrold declined […]
By Katie Myers Blue Ridge Public Radio This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. After Helene, residents of Black Mountain noticed strange-colored mold was beginning to grow in some flooded buildings in town – and wondered if they should be worried for their health. “There was […]
After Helene, residents of Black Mountain noticed strange-colored mold was beginning to grow in some flooded buildings in town – and wondered if they should be worried for their health. “There was sort of this fine mist that settled on everything around,” said Duke University microbiologist Asiya Gusa, who visited the area in January. “That […]
Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Getty Images The mountain bongos have to go through a series of adaptation phases for them to build the immunity needed to survive in the wild Kenya has received 17 mountain bongos – a very rare type of antelope – from a conservation centre in the United States. The antelopes […]
What to know: Border 2 Fire Size: 6,273 acres, 10% contained Evacuation orders: SDC-2389-A, SDC-2390, SDC-2464, SDC-2465, SDC-2466, SDC-2543, SDC-2544, SDC-2545 (Visit Genasys Protect for more information) Evacuation warnings: SDC-2306, SDC-2307, SDC-2389-B, SDC-2391, SDC-2393, SDC-2461, SDC-2462, SDC-2463, SDC-2467, SDC-2541, SDC-2542, SDC-2546, SDC-2605 Evacuation centers: Parking lot at Edwards Cinema, 2951 Jamacha Road, El Cajon, 92019 […]
Firefighting aircraft and ground crews are battling fast-moving wildfire in the Castaic Lake area north of Los Angeles. A fast-moving wildfire broke out in the mountains north of Los Angeles and ripped through an estimated 21 square kilometres (8.1 square miles) of trees and brush leading to thousands of evacuation orders for local residents and […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will continue protecting about 2,000 grizzly bears in the Rocky Mountains despite opposition from Republican-led states. Federal officials also said they would ease some restrictions as conflicts between bears and humans rise. Ranchers operating outside of designated grizzly recovery zones would be allowed to shoot […]
U.S. power producers have amassed a mountain of coal over the past two years that is sitting unused at their coal-fired power plants. The stockpile—about 138 million tons at the end of November, according to the latest Energy Information Administration estimate—is a headache for both utilities and coal producers alike. Worse, the EIA expects stockpiles […]
Three climbers from the U.S. and Canada who went missing five days ago on New Zealand’s tallest mountain are presumed dead, authorities said. The two Americans and a Canadian climber were planning to summit Aoraki by using the Zurbriggen Ridge, but they never met their flight out Monday as planned, police said. The search, which […]
Two people were killed and a third was injured when a U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado’s Front Range Saturday morning. The small passenger plane with three people aboard crashed near Storm Mountain and Palisade Mountain west of Loveland around 11:15 a.m., according to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office. The plane belonged to […]