A group of 'missing' mountain gorillas have returned to a Ugandan reserve, quashing rumors they had been spirited away over the border with Rwanda.
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Fewer Americans have had to breathe unhealthy levels of smog or microscopic soot in recent years, but air pollution remained a threat in counties where more than half the nation lives, the American Lung Association said in an annual report Thursday.
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Oregon came a step closer to bidding au revoir to foie gras after the state's Senate passed a bill to outlaw the production and sale of fattened duck and goose livers.
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Indian marine biologists have successfully relocated more than 300 coral reefs in a creek in the Arabian Sea, raising hopes of more transplants of the threatened species, officials said.
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Amidst reports of sinking tiger population, there appears to be good news for the Asiatic lion in Gujarat's Gir forest, Chief Minister Narendra Modi announced on Thursday.
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The ivory-billed woodpecker, a striking bird that once flourished in the forests of the Southeast but was thought to have become extinct, has reportedly been sighted in eastern Arkansas, a Cornell University researcher says in a paper released Thursday.
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An American working in New Caledonia has won the grand prize in a new international competition to devise technologies that protect marine life while improving the efficiency of commercial fishing.
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More than half the old personal computers replaced by consumers last year were put to productive use instead of being dumped or stored away, according to a nationwide survey by MetaFacts, a San Diego research firm.
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It was a model wedding for the dusty Tamil Nadu town, a hands-on lesson on how to celebrate even while taking care of the earth's resources.
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A wrong-way whale returned to the depths last night, rewarding the day-long efforts of volunteers to keep it alive.
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Military-ruled Myanmar, whose logging activities have drawn international criticism, plans to create vast new plantations as part of a reforestation program, the Myanmar Times reported Sunday.
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The longer an animal or plant species is protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the more likely it is to recover, a new study says.
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A University of Liverpool scientist has discovered a new layer near the Earth's core, which will enable the internal temperature of the Earth's mantle to be measured at a much deeper level than previously possible.
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Asian and African leaders on Saturday agreed to establish a tsunami warning network to prevent a repeat of the carnage from last year's Indian Ocean disaster in which 220,000 people died.
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