This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act. In an article for the liberal environmental think tank PERC, Jonathan Adler examines the poor results of five decades of so-called protection. The results are not for lack of effort, if trying means government action. Adler writes that the Endangered Species … Read more
Washington’s Space Systems Command announced on Oct. 31 that 21 launch missions have been awarded to the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as part of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 (NSSL) contract the companies won in 2020. These missions represent the fifth and final year of the Phase 2 contract for fiscal year … Read more
Sergio Montánez/The Times Herald/USA Today Network A research coordinator for Detroit Audubon holds a baby black tern during a field research effort to monitor the black tern population on Harsens Island in Algonac, Michigan. CNN Three Midwestern chapters of the National Audubon Society, a nonprofit bird conservation group, are dropping the Audubon brand because of … Read more
An 81-year-old man has been fined for building a dam in a national park home to an endangered rock wallaby, found only in Queensland’s Whitsundays region. Key points: A Proserpine man has been fined $14,000 for building a dam in the habitat of an endangered wallaby. QPWS says the Proserpine rock wallaby only lives in … Read more