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Eve Bazaiba Masudi, Vice-Prime Minister and Environment Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, center, and Brazil Foreign Minister Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde, left, and Daniel Tumpal Sumurung Simanjuntak of Indonesia raises their arms following a discussion at the COP15 U.N. conference on biodiversity in Montreal, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Historic biodiversity agreement reached at UN conference
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Sun,12/18/22-10:10AM , 74 Reads
MONTREAL (AP) — Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
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Delegates arrive at the convention centre at the COP15 UN conference on biodiversity during a snowfall in Montreal, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Paul Chiasson /The Canadian Press via AP)

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Biodiversity talks in final days with many issues unresolved
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Sat,12/17/22-11:49AM , 160 Reads
Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues around protecting the world's nature by 2030 and providing tens of billions of dollars to developing countries to fund those efforts.
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This photo provided by Harvard University shows Claudine Gay. Harvard University announced Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, that Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person to lead the Ivy League school and only the second woman. (Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University via AP)

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Claudine Gay to be Harvard's 1st Black president, 2nd woman
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Thu,12/15/22-2:03PM , 89 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University announced Thursday that Claudine Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person and the second woman to lead the Ivy League school.
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Lou Perrotti, the director of conservation programs at Roger Williams Park Zoo, holds a musk turtle in quarantine after it was confiscated in a wildlife bust, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Providence, R.I. Scores of turtle species are under threat from poaching. The plight of turtles is expected to get plenty of attention at a wildlife trade conference in Panama in November. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Turtles in demand as pets, leading to a spike in poaching
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Wed,11/09/22-10:11AM , 62 Reads
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Swimming in two plastic bins inside a brightly lit and sterile quarantine room at a Rhode Island zoo, 16 quarter-sized turtle hatchlings represent a growing worry for conservationist Lou Perrotti.
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