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- Truck full of sharks crashes while heading to an aquarium Fri, 12 Jun 15, 4:30amOne shark has died after a truck carrying four sandbar sharks from Florida to the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn blew a tire on I-95 in Volusia County. The sharks, which are each about five-foot-long were each being transported...
- Australian Coal Port Expansion Will Hasten the Great Barrier Reef’s Death, Activists Say Thu, 12 Dec 13, 4:05amPhoto via Shutterstock With an apparent disregard for warnings from scientists, fishermen and even UNESCO, Australian environment minister Greg Hunt has approved plans for a massive expansion of a coal port just 50 miles...
- 10,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska as Arctic Sea Ice Declines Thu, 3 Oct 13, 11:00pmIn an extraordinary phenomenon, an estimated 10,000 walruses have gathered on a small barrier island near Point Lay in Alaska. Spotted by scientists from NOAA last Friday, the walruses have come ashore as shrinking Arctic...
- Giant Invasive Predator Tiger Shrimp Settle in the Gulf of Mexico Tue, 17 Sep 13, 12:45amNo one knows quite how the tiger shrimp made their way into the Gulf of Mexico; some suggest that the invasive species, which can be over a foot long, hitched a ride from Asia, while others posit that the shrimp were whipped...