Positive news from Idaho
Video: Weird Life-Forms in Extreme YellowstoneYellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA - With summer travel season upon us, we're taking a closer look at Yellowstone National Park -- and we do mean closer. |
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U.S. Solar Power Industry Takes OffOakland, California, USA - With a growing demand for solar power in the United States, the U.S. solar manufacturing industry is also growing at a record pace. |
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Man gets back wallet lost in ’46 HudsonTwin Falls, Idaho, USA - Glenn Goodlove said he was likely smooching with a girl in the expansive back seat of a 1946 Hudson when his wallet slipped from his pants pocket more than five decades ago. |
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Wolf Population Grows in Three StatesBillings, Montana, USA - The number of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming continues to grow, with at least 1,300 in the three states at the end of 2006, federal officials say. |
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Idaho Farmers Make Room for Funky FruitsParma, Idaho, USA - If Esmaeil Fallahi has his way, the home of the world-famous Russet potato may soon also welcome persimmons, pistachios, pawpaws, quinces and mulberries. |
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Swiss museum sends Afghan artifacts backKabul, Afghanistan - A Swiss museum is returning nearly 1,500 artifacts to Afghanistan after they were sent into exile to save them from destruction during the country's conflicts. |
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Judge bans snowmobiles to protect caribou in northern IdahoSpokane, Washington, USA - A judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land in northern Idaho off-limits to snowmobiles in an effort to save the last mountain caribou herd in the contiguous 48 states. |
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Sturgeon Slowly Re-Emerge in Great Lakes
Toledo, Idaho -
Sturgeon -- prized for its caviar and smoked meat -- are slowly starting to make a comeback in areas where water quality has improved. The fish, which are protected in just about every state where they're found, were overfished and nearly disappeared in the early 1900s.
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Christian Group Encourages RecyclingBoise, Idaho - Tending to your soul at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Boise, Idaho, involves recycling old cell phones and printer cartridges in the church lobby, pulling noxious weeds in the backcountry and fixing worn-out hiking trails in the mountains. |
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Endangered Trout Swimming Their Way Off Endangered ListEastern Idaho - The state fish that was recently considered being added to the endangered species list is on it's way to recovery. |
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Good news in America
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Obama ‘backs assault weapons ban’
- Victories for Marriage Equality and First Openly Gay U.S. Senator
- Lucas Giving Disney’s Billions To Fund Education
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
- SpaceX launches station cargo
- Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Obama Hikes Fuel Efficiency to 54.5 MPG by 2025
- Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids
- Community-Owned Solar Power on the Rise in the U.S.
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