Human feeding of wild dolphins brings them into contact with anglers and their gear, and leads to increases in serious dolphin injuries and deaths.
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May 19
May 19
Observatory: Brittle Stars Put Their Best Foot Forward
Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.
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Observatory: Brittle Stars Put Their Best Foot Forward
Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.
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Brazilian deforestation lower in 2012 to date
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is lower in 2012 relative to the same period last year according to satellite-based data released by Imazon, an NGO.
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Palm oil industry hires lobbying powerhouse to overturn EPA ruling on biofuels
The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that palm oil-based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country’s Renewable Fuels Stand…
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Giant prehistoric freshwater turtle discovered
Researchers working in Colombia has discovered the fossilized remains of a giant freshwater turtle that lived some 60 million years ago.
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Dot Earth Blog: A ‘Fracked’ Photograph
A photographer slices open a stone and finds an image reflecting our gas thirst.
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Green Blog: Billboard Wars, Chapter 2 (or Is It 3?)
The media company that accepted the conservative Heartland Institute’s controversial ad about climate change rejected one rival billboard but accepted another.
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South Kingstown Journal: In Rhode Island, Protecting a Shoreline and a Lifeline
Coastal erosion near Matunuck has imperiled seafront structures and threatened the only road that residents can use to get in and out.
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Side Effects: The Ray and the Coconut: Tracing Life on Palmyra Atoll
Research that illuminated a delicate ecological chain of birds, trees, soil, plankton and manta rays inspires contemplation of the unknown circles of life that may be disrupted by human activity.
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