Protection close for Wyoming's 'Path of the Pronghorn'

From afar, conservation biologist Joel Berger has tracked Wyoming’s long-lasting attempt to designate a migration corridor used by pronghorn that seasonally trek upwards of 150 miles from Interstate 80 all the way to Grand Teton National Park.

Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests

NEW YORK (AP) – A surprising gut feeling may help pigeons find their way home. Animals use various techniques to navigate including following the stars and remembering key landmarks. Birds, fish and turtles orient themselves using Earth’s magnetic field as a compass. But it’s not yet clear how exactly they do this.

Indonesians mark 20 years since mud volcano eruption swallowed entire communities

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) – Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia scattered flowers, paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake on Friday, the 20th anniversary of the eruption of the Lusi mud volcano that inundated villages and killed at least 14 people.

3 astronauts from China return to Earth after nearly 7 months in space

HONG KONG (AP) – Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending nearly seven months in space, setting a record for the longest on-orbit stay by a Chinese crew.

Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

WASHINGTON (AP) – In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.

Exceptionally early heat wave shatters records and brings deaths in Europe

LONDON (AP) – The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave continued to scorch parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down.

Guide Kenton Cool scales Everest for the 20th time and says not ready to quit yet

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – One of the most accomplished mountain guides on Mount Everest is not ready to hang up his boots.

A warmer world creates bigger and more damaging hailstones, study says

WASHINGTON (AP) – A warmer world will likely make bigger and more damaging hail, a new study said. Because climate change from the burning of fossil fuels should make more high-energy unstable air, which is conducive to hail forming, hail bigger than a large marble will increase between 38% and 47% by the end of the century.

How collecting DNA samples in the wild could transform conservation

MUSANZE, Rwanda (AP) – A guide called out to endangered golden monkeys with grunts and clicks to signal he posed no threat, a familiar sound in the mist-covered forests of Rwanda ‘s Volcanoes National Park. Here in one of Africa’s most well-known parks, steep ridges and dense vegetation often obscure even the largest mountain gorillas.