DESCRIPTION: The Sand Mountain blue is a small butterfly with a wingspan just under an inch; males average 11.1 millimeters, while females are slightly smaller at 10.9 millimeters. Males have ...

RENO, Nev. — Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday seeking protection for a rare butterfly they say is threatened by off-road vehicles at one of the largest sand dunes ...

FALLON — Environmentalists want to draw a line on Sand Mountain by closing 1,000 acres to vehicles in order to protect a rare blue butterfly. Immediate closure of 1,000 acres of Sand Mountain to ...

On the surface, it was just a simple lesson about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, a celebration of the last step in a journey toward freedom, of sorts — their migration to Mexico. Under the ...

SAND SPRINGS — When Theodor Geisel got angry in 1969 that condominium developers intended to destroy cliff sides full of eucalyptus and cypress trees outside his window in La Jolla, California, he ...

FALLON -- A new advisory panel is considering ways to protect a rare butterfly that threatens to close a portion of Sand Mountain to off-road vehicle enthusiasts. The Bureau of Land Management's eight ...

The habitat of an endangered blue butterfly that lives in the sand barrens of western Wisconsin overlaps almost perfectly with the sand that's become a lucrative part of a boom in natural gas drilling ...

MADISON — In the sand barrens of Wisconsin lives an endangered blue butterfly. Its range overlaps almost perfectly with the sand that’s become a lucrative part of natural gas drilling. And to kill a ...

Sand sculpture is a rare phenomenon to Tiruchi as it does not have beaches. But, P. Sasivarma (35), an artist belonging to Osaravilai in Kanyakumari district, has made it possible by creating a ...

THE DELTA — Blasted into shape over thousands of years by relentless winds and tides, the sand dunes on the lower stretches of the San Joaquin River were once more than 200 feet high. Then came the ...