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Not everything’s a shark “attack”!
Just in time for Discovery Channel’s annual bloodbath known as Shark Week, a group of scientists in the American Elasmobranch Society sent out a plea to Reuters, the Associated Press, and other media...
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Are we killing our best shot at stopping Lyme disease?
The only good snake is a dead snake. At least, that’s what my high school friend said the time we went backpacking and he chopped a garter snake in half with a machete. He wiped the blade in the grass...
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Are adorable animal videos fueling the illegal wildlife trade?
In the jungles of southern Asia, there lives a little bundle of fur, fingers, and eyeballs known as the loris. Despite being the world’s only venomous primate, the loris is undeniably cute—in an E.T....
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Holy carp! The Great Lakes are under siege
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control aquatic plants in reservoirs and fish farms. The foreign fish...
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FDA’s pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will be moving forward with a plan to curb the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming, which would protect us all from increasingly...
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Not everything’s a shark “attack”!
Just in time for Discovery Channel’s annual bloodbath known as Shark Week, a group of scientists in the American Elasmobranch Society sent out a plea to Reuters, the Associated Press, and other media...
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Are we killing our best shot at stopping Lyme disease?
The only good snake is a dead snake. At least, that’s what my high school friend said the time we went backpacking and he chopped a garter snake in half with a machete. He wiped the blade in the grass...
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Are adorable animal videos fueling the illegal wildlife trade?
In the jungles of southern Asia, there lives a little bundle of fur, fingers, and eyeballs known as the loris. Despite being the world’s only venomous primate, the loris is undeniably cute—in an E.T....
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Holy carp! The Great Lakes are under siege
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control aquatic plants in reservoirs and fish farms. The foreign fish...
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FDA’s pitiful plea to Big Pharma: Cut back on antibiotics in meat, please
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will be moving forward with a plan to curb the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming, which would protect us all from increasingly...
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Federal appeals court may halt Shell’s plans to “drill, baby, drill”
A federal appeals court decision handed down this week may further complicate Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic this summer—plans that were already complicated by the fact that the oil...
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Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” an increasingly dangerous health risk
Thousands of pages of internal documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration show that the agency has continued to allow dozens of antibiotics to be used in animal feed over the past...
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Could puffins go the way of the dodo?
It’s hard not to love the tufted puffin. Just a little bigger than a football and not altogether different in shape, this bird’s bright orange beak and mad scientist-like tufts make it a standout on...
View ArticleNot everything's a shark "attack"!
Scientists ask the media to choose their words more carefully in order to minimize exaggerated public fear
View ArticleAre we killing our best shot at stopping Lyme disease?
Habitat loss and unregulated hunting has endangered the tick-gobbling, disease-controlling timber rattlesnake
View ArticleAre adorable animal videos fueling the illegal wildlife trade?
YouTube sensations like the ticklish loris may be deadly cute in more ways than one
View ArticleHoly 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
View ArticleFDA'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!
View ArticleFederal 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
View ArticleAntibiotic-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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