Kansas and Iowa, rich in wind resources, can provide more electricity than other states.

If that sounds ambitious, consider that the country has installed some 50, 000 wind turbines on land over the past two decades. They now supply roughly 5 percent of the nation’s electric power, a figure that reaches double digits in particularly windy states like Kansas and Iowa.

Wildlife authorities seized 33 tigers on Tuesday from a Buddhist temple in western Thailand in an effort to shut down the popular but controversial tourist attraction as early as this week. The director of Thailand’s Wildlife Conservation Office, said she was optimistic that all of the temple’s tigers, estimated to total 137, would be removed by Friday, ending a long-running dispute between the temple and the government.