A population of endangered green sea turtles is in danger of being wiped out on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra because of a tumor-causing illness.

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Between hunters and cars, the fall is a hard time for deer. Now, a University of Missouri researcher is gaining insight into the world of the graceful animal through tiny cameras mounted on their heads.

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Nearly half of the world’s coral reefs may be lost in the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them against the threat of climate change.

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Seafood prices on restaurant menus as far back as the 1860s have helped scientists track the impact of over-harvesting on marine species. They also reveal changing tastes among the restaurant-going public.

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For the four million people who live north of the Arctic Circle, a changing climate is threatening their environment, homes and traditions.

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Africa accounts for only a tiny percentage of the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to global warming, but the continent’s poverty leaves it hard-pressed to deal with the coming catastrophic effects of that warming.

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The Brazilian rainforest is being destroyed by human logging at more than twice the rate previously thought, a new satellite analysis reveals.

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Scientists and forest officials are reporting a sudden increase in [gypsy moth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_moth “Wikipedia”) egg clusters, which will hatch in the spring.

Some areas of Garrett County Maryland are seeing more than 500 clusters per acre, with the masses measuring up to 1.5 inches and holding 1,200 eggs. Those preliminary figures fall in the middle of a per-acre scale the Maryland Department of Agriculture uses to prioritize spring spraying.

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Rising seas and sinking land make the North Carolina coast ever more vulnerable to a turbulent era of hurricanes and climate change. The worst-case scenario: more than 2,000 square miles of coast underwater by 2100.

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[Snakeheads](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakehead_%28fish%29 “Wikipedia”) are found in a Virginia tributary, and biologists worry about the alien species disrupting ecosystem.

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Wildlife experts are stunned by the changes they have seen in wolf biology in Yellowstone National Park.

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It may not have the beauty of a waterfall or waves crashing on the beach, but few places on the Southeast shore can match the variety found inside the mysterious shallow depressions along the coastal plains called Carolina Bays.

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The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia is helping property owners create wildlife habitats through a new program they hope will offset some of the impact of development in one of the nation’s fastest growing regions.

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