15+ hour, 44+ min ago   (698+ words) In my recent memoir Holding Fast in Heavy Seas: Leadership For Turbulent Times, I draw on nearly four decades of federal service in the U.S. Navy and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to reflect on leadership under pressure....

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (102+ words) Animal control officers are trying to find the owner of an emu on the loose in Mississippi's Pearl River County. Mystery emu on the loose in Mississippi July 16 (UPI) -- Animal control officers are trying to find the owner of an…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (571+ words) July 14 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has signed a pair of executive orders shrinking two southern Utah national monuments by more than a million acres each, sparking anger from environmentalists who say the moves will open the formerly protected lands to…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (127+ words) July 13 (UPI) -- A golfer on a British Columbia course captured video of a bear stealing a bag of clubs from a golf cart and carrying it away. The video, posted to Reddit by user MedicalFun7, shows a bear taking a golf…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (197+ words) July 13 (UPI) -- An Indiana zoo's African exhibit was evacuated when its latest arrival, a wildebeest, was found to have escaped from its enclosure and found its way into an adjacent habitat. A spokesperson for the Fort Wayne Zoo confirmed a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (165+ words) July 10 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers in Scotland came to the assistance of a male fox cub seen wandering for at least two days with its head stuck inside a plastic bottle. The Scottish SPCA said an animal rescue team was dispatched…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (165+ words) July 10 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers in Scotland came to the assistance of a male fox cub seen wandering for at least two days with its head stuck inside a plastic bottle. The Scottish SPCA said an animal rescue team was dispatched…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (237+ words) July 1 (UPI) -- Researchers in Barcelona conducted experiments with four zoo giraffes that indicate the animals might be capable of basic quantity tracking, or simple math. The University of Barcelona, University of Leipzig and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology researchers,…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (498+ words) June 29 (UPI) -- A jaguar that roamed residential neighborhoods in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu over the weekend was safely captured Sunday following a joint operation involving wildlife specialists, environmental authorities and security forces, the institutions involved said. The…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (176+ words) The San Diego Zoo announced a wattled jacana chick that hatched just before Father's Day is doing well under the watchful eye of its dad. Wattled jacana hatches in time for Father's Day at San Diego Zoo June 22 (UPI) -- The…...