Forests

New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller speaks to media during a COVID-19 update in Sydney, Monday, June 28, 2021. Two naked men were rescued by emergency services from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost, police say. (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)

Police rescue spooked nude sunbathers from Australian forest

Jun. 28, 2021 02:24 AM EDT

Brazil governor target of pandemic corruption probe

By Diane Jeantet Jun. 02, 2021 11:22 AM EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police searched the house and offices of Amazonas Gov. Wilson Lima on Wednesday, part of an operation into possible...

Visitors to White Mountains offered safety, packing tips

May. 29, 2021 09:33 AM EDT
CAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Visitors to the White Mountain National Forest this Memorial Day weekend are being encouraged to check the weather, stay safe, and pack...

A pair of macaws perch on a rope inside an enclosure at BioParque, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Macaw gender is near impossible to determine by sight, and requires either genetic testing of feathers or blood, or laparoscopy of the gonads. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Last wild macaw in Rio is lonely and looking for love

By David Biller May. 07, 2021 11:59 PM EDT

Damage from the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire is seen at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek, Calif., Thursday, April 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Resilient redwood forest a beacon of hope for California

By Martha Mendoza Apr. 23, 2021 05:05 PM EDT

State to resume targeted burns on grasslands, near forests

Mar. 20, 2021 09:29 AM EDT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Burns on Michigan grasslands and at the edges of forests will be conducted in spring and summer to improve wildlife habitat. ...

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2015, file photo, shows a monarch butterfly in Vista, Calif. The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a new record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A recent count by the Xerces Society recorded fewer than 2,000 butterflies, a massive decline from the millions of monarchs that in 1980s clustered in trees from Marin County to San Diego County. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Monarch butterflies down 26% in Mexico wintering grounds

By Mark Stevenson Feb. 25, 2021 04:20 PM EST

Brazil's Bolsonaro visits Amazon jungle state hit by floods

By Diane Jeantet Feb. 24, 2021 12:46 PM EST
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday visited the state of Acre, in the Amazon rainforest, where several cities have been...

Brazil team probing possible COVID-19 deaths among Yanomami

By David Biller Jan. 28, 2021 02:06 PM EST
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian agency that provides health care for the Indigenous has sent a team to the Yanomami people's territory in the remote Amazon...

A family member of a patient hospitalized with COVID-19 waits in line in hopes of refilling empty oxygen tanks, outside the Nitron da Amazonia company, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil receives oxygen from Venezuela for COVID-19 patients

By Mauricio Savarese Jan. 20, 2021 04:54 PM EST

A health worker stands in front of an empty oxygen tank station, the only station at Joventina Dias Hospital, a small clinic in Manaus, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Hospital staff and relatives of COVID-19 patients rushed to provide facilities with oxygen tanks just flown into the city as doctors chose which patients would breathe amid dwindling stocks and an effort to airlift some of them to other states. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Oxygen-starved city in Brazil’s Amazon starts immunization

By Marcelo Silva De Sousa Jan. 19, 2021 10:21 AM EST

Healthcare workers and military prepare to board a COVID-19 patient onto an air force plane, at the Ponta Pelada Airport, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Some hope for Manaus, an isolated city of 2 million people, landed in a Brazilian air force plane on Friday with 6,000 liters of oxygen that are being distributed to hospitals. But as the pandemic hits hard, locals wonder how long the supply will last. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Amazon city scrambles to provide oxygen to COVID-19 patients

By Mauricio Savarese And David Biller Jan. 15, 2021 12:01 AM EST

Trails to remain open this winter amid pandemic

Jan. 02, 2021 01:20 PM EST
KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A network of trails in the Green Mountain National Forest will stay open this winter to give people more to do during the coronavirus...

Researchers from Brazil's state-run Fiocruz Institute shine a light on a bat they captured in the Atlantic Forest during a nighttime outing in Pedra Branca state park, near Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. The outing was part of a project to collect and study viruses present in wild animals — including bats, which many scientists believe were linked to the outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

By Christina Larson, Aniruddha Ghosal And Marcelo Silva De Sousa Dec. 14, 2020 01:09 AM EST

Tanya Bryant, 42, a case manager for an information technology company, voted on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The registered Democrat said the coronavirus pandemic is a big issue on her mind and contributed to her voting for Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Gary Robertson)

AP VoteCast: North Carolina voters sour on state of nation

By Steven Wine Nov. 04, 2020 11:57 AM EST

AP VoteCast: North Carolina voters sour on state of nation

By Steven Wine Nov. 03, 2020 05:54 PM EST

Gov. Roy Cooper listens as Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, answers a question during a briefing at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order on Wednesday preventing landlords from evicting tenants who are unable to pay their rent.(Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wins reelection

By Bryan Anderson Nov. 03, 2020 12:39 AM EST

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest makes a comment during a live televised debate with Gov. Roy Cooper and at UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Cooper rakes in millions more than Forest in election leadup

By Bryan Anderson And Gary D. Robertson Oct. 29, 2020 03:04 PM EDT

Health officials confirm COVID-19 case at Dan Forest rally

By Tom Foreman Jr. Oct. 28, 2020 07:53 PM EDT
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — An unidentified person who attended a campaign rally for Republican candidate for governor Dan Forest tested positive for COVID-19,...

FILE - In this May 15, 2018 file photo, Alek Skarlatos, right, speaks at the Douglas County Republican Party headquarters in Roseburg, Ore. Skarlatos, who in 2015 helped thwart an attack by a gunman on a Paris-bound train, faces longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio in the November election. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP, File)

Paris train attack hero makes bid for Congress from Oregon

By Andrew Selsky Oct. 26, 2020 02:47 PM EDT