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A tiny bird flies one of the longest migrations that scientists have ever...
A little songbird known as the blackpoll warbler departs each fall from New England and eastern Canada to migrate nonstop in a direct line over the Atlantic Ocean toward South America.To track the...
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Incredible pictures of an Australian teenager reeling in a 1,000 pound tiger...
A mammoth tiger shark weighing more than 450kg (992 pounds) has been caught by hand off a beach in New South Wales.Max Muggeridge, 19, who has been a shark fisherman for more than seven years, took...
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California just entered its fourth year in record-breaking drought, but that hasn't stopped food and beverage giant Nestlé from drawing water from multiple reserves in the state to make its bottled...
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There's a really well thought out theory that 'Game of Thrones' is a metaphor...
An invisible force threatens to destroy life as we know it, yet society remains largely indifferent.A small group of devoted soldiers, who know the true strength of this threat, warn us of the horror...
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This map of countries with the most threatened mammals is heartbreaking
At least once each year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updates its Red List of Threatened Species to keep tabs on which animals in the world are at risk of extinction. The news...
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With the 5-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, comes new offshore drilling...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is planning to impose a major new regulation on offshore oil and gas drilling to try to prevent the kind of explosions that caused the catastrophic BP oil spill...
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This map shows we've dangerously underestimated how much carbon dioxide city...
Cities, with their dense populations and public transit systems are often seen as hotbeds of green innovation —places where bicycles, subways, and light rail are transforming how we get around. But new...
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The real villain in the California drought isn't almonds — it's red meat
You might've heard the news last week that if there's one food you shouldn't be eating in the middle of the California drought, it's almonds.Compared with many other fruits, nuts, and vegetables,...
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There’s life thriving deep beneath Antarctica’s ice
The water beneath Antarctica's thick ice may be dark and chilly, but it still harbors a surprising amount of sea life, including sea stars, sponges and anemones, according to a new underwater robotic...
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Incredibly rare pink dolphin lives in a notorious Japanese whale museum
The bottlenose dolphins we know, love, and celebrate on April 14, National Dolphin Day, are gray — presumably because that's the color thousands of years of evolution has proved best for them so...
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Record drought is forcing Southern California to dramatically cut local water...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Southern California's water wholesaler voted on Tuesday to cut its deliveries to cities and communities by 15 percent as the state clamps down on water usage amid a devastating...
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It takes a whopping 90 gallons of water to produce one tiny container of...
You may have heard that Greek yogurt has a big waste problem. To make it thick and creamy, producers strain out all of its liquid. They end up with an enormous amount of watery, acidic byproduct that...
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Mexico has a shockingly high number of threatened and endangered species
Around a quarter of the world's mammal species are threatened, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which updates its Red List of Threatened Species yearly. A map of the...
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Here's how Japan is getting around international regulations to kill...
Here's one thing successive Japanese governments seem to agree on: Japan should be able to go out and kill a lot of whales.On Monday, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) rejected Japan's...
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A gray whale just destroyed the longest mammal migration record
The western gray whale now holds the record as the mammal with the longest known migration, researchers say.A female western gray whale swam from Russia to Mexico and back again — a total of 13,988...
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The heartbreaking reason Jane Goodall stopped doing what she loved most
Jane Goodall's groundbreaking work with chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa, was the achievement of a childhood dream and the time she often looks back on as the happiest in her life.But after spending...
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These creepy carnivorous snails with harpoon-shaped teeth hunt fish
There are some badass carnivorous cone snails who hunt fish by tethering them in place with a harpoon-shaped tooth and then injecting a venom that messes with their nervous system.Now, researchers...
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3 of Jane Goodall's devastating predictions for 2050 are already coming true...
When she was asked by the New York Times recently whether the Earth would be a better or worse place by 2050, chimpanzee expert, UN Messenger of Peace, and author of a book titled "Reason For Hope,"...
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This rare monkey was just spotted for the first time in 40 years
An African monkey thought to be extinct has been spotted again by researchers, who returned from a remote Congo forest in March with the first-ever photos of the rare red primate.Until this year,...
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California is already giving in to pressure from cities over its drought plan
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California water regulators on Saturday revised a still-tentative drought plan by easing cuts for Los Angeles and San Diego and bumping up reduction targets in the areas that...
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