Lake Okeechobee was in trouble before last year’s hurricanes churned up a thick layer of pollution from the bottom, turning the water the color of day-old coffee. But the worst may be yet to come.
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Another amazing reappearance in the animal kingdom is being reported Friday. A group of gorillas popular with tourists has once again been sighted in a game park in Uganda. Uganda’s press had been accusing neighboring Rwanda of snatching the gorillas in order to draw more tourists to Rwanda’s game park. One hint as to what really caused the gorillas to disappear. They showed up again… carrying a new baby.
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Supporting high-quality local farming can reduce pollutants in the Chesapeake.
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The nocturnal, omnivorous hogs can grow to 400 pounds and have four fierce-looking tusks that can extend five inches from their top and bottom jaws. They’re more bristly and muscular than domestic pigs, and they can be ill-tempered when cornered.
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More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists have no explanation for what’s causing the combustion.
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Scientists say a rare ivory-billed woodpecker — thought to be extinct — has been found in a remote nature reserve in Arkansas. The sighting was kept secret for a year, in part to protect the habitat.
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An Alaskan wolf — a black male that led the world’s longest-studied, most-photographed family of wolves — was killed last weekend by a hunter outside Denali National Park.
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More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what’s causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.
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Hungry ants build a ‘fibreglass’ trap to put food on the rack.
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Maybe the geese were the suburban sort and saw the ivy-covered parking lot median as the perfect place to start a family. Or maybe they ignored the nearby Nordstrom and viewed the spot as the verdant Loudoun County farmland it once was.
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Ranchers have enough to worry about as drought stunts growth in their pastures, without having to deal with a new threat: an early season grasshopper that’s eating new grass on rangeland west of Hot Springs.
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Deep inside the soaring pines and cypress swamps of False Cape State Park, off the popular hiking trails, lies a dirty, decades-old secret.
It is tucked behind sandy dunes, past signs that warn visitors: “This delicate area needs your help “? leave as few signs of your stay as possible.”
It is a massive 25-year-old garbage dump. And it is growing.
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From junked trucks to World War II submarines, vast fields of wreckage lie beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii.
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Oceangoing freighters that claim to be empty of ballast water before entering the Great Lakes routinely carry organisms that endanger the water bodies, a new report shows.
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Development: A cornerstone of state economy consumes our natural heritage.
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