Gusty winds bring down trees across Tri-State Area
A large tree toppled onto a car in Manhattan and another downed tree caused train delays for NJ Transit on Friday.
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With its cactus-filled garden and breathtaking views of the rocky peaks of the Arizona desert, Wendy and Vance Walker's home in the Rio Verde Foothills seemed to be a little slice of paradise. City managers in Scottsdale, faced with meeting their own targets, decided Rio Verde Foothills -- which they view as profligate development -- would no longer be able to buy their water.
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Louisiana works out deal for family to keep pet nutria
After much public outcry, state officials now say they will let a Louisiana couple keep a 22-pound nutria -- a beady-eyed, orange-toothed, rat-tailed rodent commonly considered a wetlands-damaging pest -- as a pet that frolics with their dog, snuggles in their arms and swims in the family pool. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in a statement Friday, said Myra and Denny Lacoste are being allowed to apply for a permit so they can legally keep Neuty the Nutria in their New Orleans home, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.
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Unwanted visitor ruins spring break in Florida - toxic algae
With its brilliant sun, white sand and turquoise water, Lido Key Beach would make for a perfect postcard of Florida beaches if it weren't for the dozens of dead fish lying on the shore, killed by a toxic algae bloom known as red tide.Facing the Lido Beach Resort, Napier seems resigned to living with the toxic bloom.
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Avalanche engulfs three, killing one skier, in Colorado backcountry, authorities say
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Rare 6ft shark washes up on Hampshire beach – and is quickly decapitated
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Does mild February mean snake season has arrived early? | ECOVIEWS
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5.4-magnitude quake in ocean off Alaska felt hundreds of miles away, seismologists say
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The Biden administration is offering to pay Colorado River farmers to let fields go dry during a devastating drought. They're worried it's just the first step in losing their way of life.
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Too much thing, rain, is sinking farmers’ bottom lines across California’s Central Coast. The area some call "America’s salad bowl" more resembles a soup bowl as round after round of atmospheric river-fueled storms overwhelmed farmland. We all may start to notice a difference in the grocery store as some staples become harder to find.
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People hacked up a rare shark that washed up on a beach and made off with its head and tail. A historian is begging them to bring these pieces back.
Historian Dan Snow said that while it is not against the law to take parts of the dead shark, scientists should get to take a look at it first.
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Water from San Joaquin River floods homes in Manteca
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