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Commercial whalers 'kill first blue whale in over 50 years'

Sea Shepherd volunteers monitoring the Hvalur hf whaling station in Hvalfjordur, Iceland, claim to have documented the slaughter of an endangered Blue whale on ...

Supreme Court nominee dishes out mac and cheese to homeless

Most importantly.I intend to hear from West Virginians. "Don't defame him for living a life most of us would be proud of", Graham said . At the White House...

Traders use loophole to get illegal ivory to the market

Under EU laws, government certificates are legally required for the sale of ivory acquired after 1947 and before 1990. They then had the ivory radiocarbon dat...

NASA spacecraft recorded odd sounds from Saturn as it dive-bombed planet

Ali Sulaiman, planetary scientist at the University of Iowa and a member of the RPWS team, added that Enceladus was a "little generator going around Saturn", wh...

Iceberg breaks off glacier in Greenland

An illustrated overlay of the iceberg's dimensions is available here (Credit: Google Earth, Courtesy of Denise Holland): http://bit.ly/2z8cctk . According ...

Laguna Beach Instagram model recovering after shark bite in the Bahamas

Zarutskie, who grew up near the ocean in California , spotted a pack of nurse sharks in the water and, knowing they're generally docile, chose to get in the wa...

Airbus working on Mars rover to bring soil samples back to Earth

A concept image of the rover designed by Airbus is below. ESA's ExoMars orbiter, which will act as a relay satellite for the Sample Return mission. The firs...

Scientists discover world's oldest colors

The team of researchers discovered bright pink pigment in rocks taken from deep beneath the Sahara in Africa. The fossils from where the archaic bright pink w...

Israeli company plans lunar landing next year

The unmanned mission is a collaboration between privately owned Israel Aerospace Industries and the non-profit organization SpaceIL, which participated in th...

Chris set to become hurricane, Beryl poses flood threat to Puerto Rico

With maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, Chris is about 200 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., according to the 5 a.m. advisory from the National Hur...

Starbucks Pledges to Not Suck on Cheddar

Starbucks is the biggest company to make the environmentally friendly move and it's expected that more companies will follow its lead and offer their own eco-f...

NASA's Kepler Telescope almost out of fuel, forced to nap

If enough fuel remains after the August 2 phone call home, campaign 19 will begin on August 6, NASA officials said. The hibernation-like mode will conserve fuel...

Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws in stores globally by 2020

Its beverages will feature recyclable lids featuring a raised lip, like those pictured here. "This move is an answer to our own partners about what we can d...

Embattled EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns--What's Next?

Trump also said Andy Wheeler, the the EPA's current deputy head, will assume the role of acting administrator, adding, "I have no doubt that Andy will continu...

Tropical Storm Beryl speeding toward eastern Caribbean

Tropical Storm Chris was about 160 miles (257 km) south of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina with top sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (72 kph), the NHC said ...

Rainy pattern continues for week ahead & latest on Beryl & Chris

In the Atlantic Tropical Storm Chris is slowly beginning to strengthen with sustained winds now up to 50 miles per hour and gusts reaching 60 miles per hour. ...

Pride of lions kill suspected rhino poachers on game preserve

A group of poachers illegally entered a South African reserve and planned to kill rhinos. The activity was dismissed because this is a time when the lions a...

Tropical Storm Chris to bring showers

It was expected to move slowly up the coast this week. As Beryl approached, Puerto Rico , a USA territory, was still recovering from the devastation of Mar...

Study shows ancient ancestors climbed trees, also walked on two legs

In 2002, archaeologists discovered a well-preserved, partial skeleton of an infant A. afarensis , thought to be around 3-years-old at the time of death. At 2½ ...

Canada Heat Wave Death Toll Rises To 54

Regional public health director Mylene Drouin said that the majority of the victims were men aged between 53 and 85. Health officials in Quebec this week urge...

Tropical Storm Beryl in Atlantic; 2nd named storm of season

Tropical storm watches were in place in Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Saba and St. Eustatius, according to the hurri...

Beryl becomes first hurricane 2018 season

Barbados declared a hurricane watch Friday as Hurricane Beryl gathered strength in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said . Beryl shoul...

Scott Pruitt Steps Down From EPA

Murray also suggested slashing the number of EPA staff in half . New York's attorney general's office has also battled Pruitt's EPA in court, winning a sui...

Lunar eclipse to take place in July - ANAS

Lunar eclipses take place when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are aligned, meaning that our planet projects a direct shadow onto our satellite. Pagasa said lunar e...

Einstein’s gravity theory passes extreme test, says study published in Nature

An global research team led by the Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam , in the Netherlands , has shown that the equivalenc...

Hawaii governor signs first-ever bill banning sunscreens that harm coral reefs

Edgewell Personal Care, which makes Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen lotions, said it now makes products free of the two chemicals and "will continue t...

Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, ...

UK wants to set own fishing access rules after Brexit

Whilst it is great see a commitment to managing fisheries with the whole marine environment in mind, a lot of what's in the white paper is just a continuation...

Environment Canada issues severe thunderstorm watch for Greater Toronto Area

The weather agency said the heat and humidity could lend intensity to a system of slow-moving storms expected to move through the region, resulting in "torrenti...

Scott Pruitt resigns as EPA administrator, Trump announces on Twitter

A different EPA inspector general review involves Pruitt's travel practices, suggesting that it will review Pruitt's use of his round-the-clock security det...