Chloe Bennett-Steele

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Under the blanket of night, millions of migratory birds soar over Oklahoma from March until the end of spring to reach their breeding grounds. But scientists say artificial lights can disrupt birds’ travel, leading to confusion and building collisions. A campaign from the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden and 16 other nature and wildlife groups asks residents to dim or fully extinguish artificial lights at night during bird migration seasons.

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Acreage within the Ouachita National Forest in far-eastern Oklahoma and what appears to be the Black Kettle National Grassland to the west were targeted in a memo from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. The new policy would expand and speed up harvesting on public lands to produce timber products in the U.S.Rollins said the initiative is also focused on conservation and would lead to healthier forests, though some groups disagree.

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The vote sets in motion a plan to bring the space company to Oklahoma, an initiative that started at least a year ago. The board members said the state will be among the first to invest in low-orbit technology used for scientific research. “I dare say this is probably the second biggest date in OSIDA’s history,” said board member Michael Schulz.

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Renewable energy from wind turbines and solar panels generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal last year, a first for the country since coal peaked in 2007. A report from Ember, a global energy think tank, shows coal is at a historic low of 15% generation. Wind and solar energy produced 17% of the nation’s electricity. The report states coal’s presence was three times larger in the U.S. in 2018 than wind and solar combined.

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An excavation in 1930s Cimarron County resulted in a set of bones that would puzzle paleontologists for decades. Using money from the Works Progress Administration, a crew dug under the direction of researcher John Willis Stovall near Black Mesa to find remains belonging to a dinosaur species. Originally thought to belong to a meat-eating giant, Stovall informally gave it a name later corrected to “Saurophaganax maximus” following his death.