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Maine lobster catch declines again

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's catch of lobsters declined for the fourth straight year, state fishing regulators said Friday, as the industry continued to grapple with soaring business costs, inflation and a changing ocean. The haul of lobsters, Maine's best known export and a key piece ...

Man accused of wolf torture agrees to plea to avoid trial, prison

A Wyoming man who allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the wounded animalÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ mouth shut and showed it off in a rural bar before killing it has agreed to a plea deal that would spare him from going to trial and potentially prison. Cody Roberts would instead pay a $1,000 fine and serve ...

Game commission monitoring avian influenza in wild birds

This winter, avian influenza viruses have continued to circulate in wild birds across Pennsylvania, and more birds will be migrating to and through the state in the coming weeks. Strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus have been present in PennsylvaniaÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ wild birds since early ...

WhatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ going on with our weather and climate?

Do we really know what climate change will do to our planet? Deniers think itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ all a big hoax. They are quick to point to all that snow from the storm that buried the Northeast and what about the below-zero weather we had across Southwestern Pennsylvania and the chilly days in Florida this ...

Rodent remedy

ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ hard to say if itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a dependable sign of spring, but it is different. For the last couple of days, we’ve been seeing chipmunks scurry around atop the deep but diminishing snowpack here in the mountains. Otherwise, we haven’t seen a chipmunk around our place since before ...

U.S. missing out on Polar War

We have all seen the pictures of the brutal, cold winds and the everlasting darkness of the Arctic Winter. What originates in the Arctic does not always stay in this frozen land. In the darkness of winter, the cold air grows into an ever increasing dome of colder and colder air and if ...