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Not everything's a shark "attack"!

Scientists ask the media to choose their words more carefully in order to minimize exaggerated public fear

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Are we killing our best shot at stopping Lyme disease?

Habitat loss and unregulated hunting has endangered the tick-gobbling, disease-controlling timber rattlesnake

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Are adorable animal videos fueling the illegal wildlife trade?

YouTube sensations like the ticklish loris may be deadly cute in more ways than one

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Holy carp! The Great Lakes are under siege

A species of imported carp isn't just reproducing in Lake Erie -- it's overtaking the whole watershed

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FDA's pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please

Government hopes to crack down on their overuse by leaving it up to the companies that manufacture them. Good luck!

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Federal appeals court may halt Shell's plans to "drill, baby, drill"

A three-judge panel ruled that the U.S. Interior Department erred when granting the oil giant Arctic leases

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Antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" an increasingly dangerous health risk

Factory farms continue to pump animals full of "high-risk" antibiotics while the FDA does nothing

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Could puffins go the way of the dodo?

As tufted puffin populations take a deep dive, an effort surfaces to get the birds listed as endangered species

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Wildfires are burning holes in our pockets

A government report predicts the cost of fighting wildfires in 2014 will go over budget by hundreds of millions

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