From East TN to Madagascar, Knoxville zoologist helps save endangered tortoise species
Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.
11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.
Polish Adventurer to Cycle Gobi Desert in Winter
Mateusz Waligora of Poland is returning to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia next month to fat bike 1,400km from Altai to the ...
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As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows
the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...
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Thousands of endangered tortoises rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded
Sanctuary staff, members of the community and even police officers joined together in a rescue operation, wading through the water with large containers to collect the bewildered tortoises.