Bush Country Fades Into the Landscape
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CRAWFORD, Tex. -- From certain angles, this town looks as if it already got hit by a recession. The gift shop next to the police station closed about a year ago, and there's a "Building For Sale" banner flapping from the cornice. Two other gift shops have long since gone out of business. Another one...
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Rural roads are being traveled by more and more people, leading to an increase in fatal wildlife-related crashes.
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THE number of wild animals across the world has plummeted by 40 per cent in the past 30 years because of changes in the way humans are living.
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President Bush's hair has become grayer and his face more creased during his time in the White House. But aides, friends and family see more dramatic changes. The ordeals of the past four years have made him more deliberate and focused than he was when he came to Washington, they say.
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Crocodile meat, lilly pillies, and other wild foods are leaving the bush for Australian supermarkets, creating business opportunities for Aboriginal communities.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 11--As President Bush boasts of increases in funding for national parks, his administration continues to take a few steps back in other areas related to the environment. Consider proposed funding for national wildlife refuges.
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Canadian scientists say much of their nation's northern tundra is rapidly disappearing, being replaced by trees and shrubs, forcing wildlife from the region.
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President Bush&#039;s stalwart foreign friends are fading fast.
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By Katie N  Johannes, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 8--A hint of red can be seen on berry plants, and ash trees are just starting to turn yellow, signaling the approach of fall in the mountains.
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An American institution is in danger of fading away.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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By FRANZEN  Drive on rural roads through southeastern Wisconsin on a chilly February day, and you can still find acres of windblown fields of white stretching into the distance. But the feeling of open space is illusory.
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Due to a drought in Utah, Glen Canyon is on its way back Â viewable in much of its former glory.
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Unpopular at home and in much of  the world during the last year of his presidency, George W.  Bush is basking in rare adulation on his African tour.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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LOGAN, Utah - Aspen trees have been dying off, leaving dwindling numbers of the white-barked fixture of the Western mountain landscape. Nobody is quite sure why.