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Thai vets remove nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach

Bangkok (dpa) – A team of Thai veterinary surgeons on Monday successfully removed nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach, the world’s first such surgery. Five veterinarians at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University conducted a six-hour surgery on Omsin, Thai for “piggy bank,” to remove a total of 915 coins weighing five kilograms from the 59-kilogram […]

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This Tortoise Accidentally Saved a Bunny’s Life – and Now They’re Best Buds

The tortoise and the hare may have been arch enemies in old folktales, but these two oddball companions have been best pals since Wamba the reptile accidentally saved the bunny’s life. Ron Brink of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Dove Mountain, Arizona is the proud caretaker of Wamba – a happy 50-pound African tortoise who lives

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El Salvador’s beloved national hippo is beaten to death

There is shock and horror in El Salvador after the national zoo’s beloved hippotamus was beaten to death. News of the death of Gustavito has been met with outrage. The much-loved hippo was born and raised in Guatemala. He was brought to El Salvador 13 years ago. Much-loved hippo Gustavito brutally beaten to death at

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Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, says Obama neglected protecting environment to focus on climate change

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Saturday said the Obama administration neglected would-be department priorities to pursue a climate change agenda and hinted that a rollback of some regulations could be announced as soon as next week. “I wanted to send a message to those at the agency – there are some very important

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Last holdouts are cleared from main Dakota Access pipeline protest camp

Law enforcement took control of the largest Dakota Access pipeline protest camp Thursday, arresting or moving the few dozen people who had remained in the mud and snow in one of the largest environmental protests in American history. “At 2:09 p.m., Oceti Sakowin protest camp was completely cleared by law enforcement!” the Morton County Sheriff’s

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Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

Come for the sea cow pictures, stay for the environmental policy Keith Ramos // Fish and Wildlife Service Even the fish love these big guys. The fightin’ sea cows are making a comeback. Manatees have been on the endangered species list since 1972, but in the last few years they’ve been more abundant than ever.

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Hundreds of scientists urge Trump to withdraw from U.N. climate-change agency

More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate-change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment. In a Thursday letter to the president, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen called the United States and other nations to “change course on an

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Ben Gurion University to launch nano- satellite

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — “BGUSAT,” the first nanosatellite for Israeli academic research, is being launched Wednesday, February 15 as part of a collaboration between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. It will provide researchers with data on climate change, agricultural developments and other

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Tel Aviv readies new natural history museum

By Yoni Peres, DVM TEL AVIV, Israel — At the top of the cliff, just like Noah’s Ark after the flood, overlooking the Tel Aviv skyline, stands a unique building – the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Just a few steps away, in an old building at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology, Professor Tamar Dayan, the

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From the archives: In 1999, Eugene Cernan knew we’d make it to Mars

In memory of “the last moonwalker” NASA/Popular Science, July 1999 In 1972, astronaut Eugene Cernan commanded Apollo 17, the last space mission to land men on the moon. They stayed for about three days. On January 16, 2017, Eugene Cernan passed away. Cernan held the title of “the last moonwalker,” which he called “a dubious

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Not only snowbirds head south in winter. Insects too

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Where do insects go in winter? A new study published in the prestigious journal Science found that flying insects migrate on a seasonal basis. This movement constitutes the largest migration found in today’s world, creating a mass that is almost eight times that of birds that migrate from Britain to Africa.

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Earth sets heat record in 2016 � for the third year in a row

It’s official: 2016 was the hottest year on record in 122 years of record-keeping, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The 1.78-degree jump over the mid-20th-century average marks the third year in a row that global temperatures have reached record-shattering levels. Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about

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