Topic: Nature and the Environment

Red Legged Frog

Red Legged Frog
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shows a California red-legged frog. After 10 years of rewrites, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final report designating habitat for the California red-legged frog that inspired Mark Twain's story. The new ...
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EU understates emissions from oil: biodiesel lobby

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is not taking full account of the environmental impact of oil-based road transport fuels, which could undermine the bloc's renewable energy goals, European biodiesel producers said on Thursday. The EU uses greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-based road fuels as a basis for calculating the ...
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Storms threaten butterflies' winter rest in Mexico

LOS SAUCOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Dense clouds of migrating monarch butterflies used to snap branches and cast shadows across the forests of central Mexico, but severe weather is posing a new threat to the annual phenomenon. The yearly 2,000-mile journey, which takes four generations of butterflies to complete, starts in ...
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Mideast Dubai Whale Shark

Mideast Dubai Whale Shark
FILE - Sammy, the 13-feet (4 meter) long female whale shark swims inside a giant aquarium at the Atlantis hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in this Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 file photo. The resort hotel on one of Dubai's man-made islands said Thursday March 18, 2010 that it has ...
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