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☆ Roe v. Wade Is Gone, but Abortions Are On the Rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Funds and nonprofits that help finance abortions have raised millions of dollars to help women pay for procedures and travel. Photo: Angela Owens/The Wall Street JournalMore than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one thing seems clear: New state bans have done little so far to deter women from obtaining abortions. Data released Tuesday shows the number of abortions ticked up slightly in the year following the high court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. That ruling, from June 2022, ended federal protections for the procedure, and paved the way for some 16 states to ban many or most abortions.

Persons: Angela Owens, Roe, Wade, Dobbs Organizations: Jackson, Health Organization

☆ How Do You Send a Panda to China? D.C. Can Hardly Bear the Thought
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Story Andrew Duehren | Photographs Angela Owens | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

As the U.S. and China relationship has grown more tense, panda politics have also become more black-and-white. Three cubs previously born at the National Zoo have already been sent to China, while pandas at other U.S. zoos have also recently left.

Organizations: National Zoo Locations: U.S, China

☆ D.C. Is in Panda-monium as China Takes Back Beloved Bears
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Andrew Duehren | Photographs Angela Owens The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Local lore says the horses are descended from survivors of a long-ago shipwreck, but the more likely and mundane story is that herds were brought from the mainland in the late 1600s to avoid fencing laws and taxation, the park service says.

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“In Canada we have way more wolves. But in Saskatchewan, where I live, the land is so flat and the timber is so dense that you rarely see them. You’re lucky if you see two wolves a year,” he says. “I come down here and I can see 15 a day, easily.”

☆ Wolf Watching Is a Great Hobby, If You Don’t Mind the Cold and the Carcasses
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Angela Owens | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo.– It’s just after 6 a.m. when Rick McIntyre pulls into a turnout on the side of the road. The sun hasn’t yet risen over the mountains and the thermometer on his dashboard reads minus 11 degrees. He shakes a pair of air-activated hand warmers and aims a dark-green spotting scope at the hills. At the base of the hills is an elk carcass, and somewhere in the trees above it, a small pack of wolves. The wolf watchers have arrived.

☆ Women Face Abortion Delays as Clinics Report Surge in Demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Laura Kusisto | Photos Angela Owens The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mr. Jackson said women sometimes arrive hoping for a shorter or less invasive procedure, and when they learn they are too late, they have to return home because of employment or child-care responsibilities. “Every week just gets more stressful” for a patient, he said.

CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Seven months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some abortion clinics say new state bans on the procedure are pushing abortions later into pregnancy. Since the high court’s decision to remove constitutional protections for abortion, the procedure has become largely inaccessible in nearly one-third of the states, either because a ban is in place or because clinics have shut down owing to legal uncertainty.

☆ The Small Desert Town of Nipton Has Been Sold. Again.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Kirsten Grind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the months since owning Nipton, Spiegelworld has had to contend with the complicated reality of governing a town. The company and its employees have cleaned up 250 tons of debris, tangled with electrical and septic-tank snafus and met Nipton’s quirky, longtime residents. Angela Owens/The Wall Street Journal

The bears are eager to venture out onto the ice, which they depend on to hunt and prey. The bide their time along the shore and in the surrounding tundra while waiting for the freeze.

☆ Remote Town Is Home to 900 Humans and 850 Polar Bears
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Angela Owens | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CHURCHILL, Manitoba—On a cold October morning in this remote Canadian village, a series of loud bangs disturb the quiet hum of residents beginning their day. A polar bear lumbering through town has been spotted near the cemetery.

☆ In the Sunbelt, the Hottest Commodity Is Land
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Konrad Putzier | Photographs Angela Owens The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

His grandfather bought much of it for 10 cents an acre in 1932. Since then, the population of the Tampa metropolitan area has exploded to more than 3 million.

☆ The U.S. Is Running Short of Land for Housing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Konrad Putzier | Photographs Angela Owens The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the Sunbelt, the hottest commodity isn’t oil, copper or gold. It is land. And rancher Robert Thomas has plenty of it. Since then, the population of the Tampa metropolitan area has exploded to more than 3 million. The Thomas family’s ranch is now surrounded by communities of single-family homes.

☆ Some Researchers Are Looking for Bigfoot—Just Don’t Tell Anyone
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Kris Maher | Photographs Angela Owens The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST— Amy Bue set out after nightfall armed with a thermal-imaging camera and two-way radio. The English teacher from Youngstown, Ohio, was hoping to finally get a clear look at Bigfoot. In dense woods northeast of Pittsburgh, she hiked with a group that included a civil engineer, a wildlife filmmaker and a Zumba teacher. In the darkness they whooped, made loud knocks and let out a long, mournful cry known as the Ohio howl. Then they sat silent for a reply.

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