内容摘要：If you have to be above ground in a tornado, “your goal is to put as many walls and barriers between you and the outside as you possibly can,” Smith said.

If you have to be above ground in a tornado, “your goal is to put as many walls and barriers between you and the outside as you possibly can,” Smith said.

The nonprofit said the Tulsa Zoo’s enclosure is “cramped, unnatural, and harmful to elephant health,” with seven animals “jammed into an enclosure less than one percent the size of their smallest natural range.”The Tulsa Zoo said last month that it has renovated and expanded its elephant exhibit, which dedicates 17 of its 124 total acres to pachyderms. A large barn was built in 2024 and an additional 10 acres will be added to preserve this summer, the zoo said in an April statement.

Zoos across the country have been targeted in recent years by animal activists who criticize living conditions for elephants. Broadly, some elephant experts say urban zoos simply don’t have the space that elephants, who roam extensive distances in the wild, need for a normal life.Some larger zoos such as thehave phased out their elephant programs, sending their aging animals to sanctuaries that have far more space.

But other zoos say they are committed to keeping elephants and are turning to breeding, arguing that a sustainable population of zoo elephants will help spur a commitment to wildlife conservation among future generations of visitors.In New York, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed legal papers to try to free the Asian elephant Happy from the Bronx Zoo but

in 2022. The group then filed similar papers in California to try to free

‘s three African elephants but a judge ruled against the group.Jasmin Singer hosts her radio show, “Environmental Connections,” on Friday, March 28, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)

Jasmin Singer hosts her radio show, “Environmental Connections,” on Friday, March 28, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Toni Duncan via AP)EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

One of America’s first boomtowns and a former manufacturing hub, Rochester has captured the eye of some people looking to escape extreme weather events. Other midcentury industrial urban centers such as Buffalo, an hour’s drive from Rochester, and Duluth, Minnesota, have garnered attention in recent years for being known as climate havens. That is because they are less likely to experience events fueled and exacerbated by climate change, such asFar from coasts, cities like Rochester, Buffalo and Duluth don’t face hurricanes or storm surges. At the same time, they are connected to large lakes, giving them an