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Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter ...

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New research shows how toxic chemicals hitch a ride with seabirds flying from southern latitudes to the Arctic.

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The adoption of ship scrubbers—technology meant to clean up dirty fuel—has caused a surge in heavy metal pollution.

Waves breaking at the mouth of Brazil’s Doce River, where it meets the Atlantic, have become the first-ever waves and part of ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

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Seabirds migrating from southern latitudes are bringing toxic chemicals into the Arctic, carrying PFAS, or "forever chemicals," in their bodies that contaminate the region’s ecosystem.William von ...