EGLIN AFB, Florida, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Air Force's Eglin Air Force Base issued the following news: By Samuel King Jr. The 96th Test Wing's pilots completed multiple in-flight vapor purge tests in a F-15E Strike Eagle, here Aug. 16-18. The tests were part of an overall Department of Defense effort, examining cockpit environmental conditions after a chemical weapon attack. The goal of this latest test was to determine how long a chemical introduced into the aircraft's air intake system on th  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 16 -- The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation has announced the following news release: It is no secret that pollinators like bees and butterflies have been facing numerous threats, including habitat loss and pesticide use. Yet for more than one million participants in the nationwide Bee City USA program have taken the pollinators' plight as an opportunity to get to work. From early beginnings with a single chapter in Asheville, North Carolina in 2012 led by fo  more