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Australian floods lowered worldwide sea levels

Scientists have been puzzled by a drop in worldwide sea levels in 2011. New research suggests that deluges in Australia were largely responsible.

Swedish pig has one month to get a girlfriend

This pig will be confiscated if he doesn't find a mate. Can some kindly spider please spin him an OKCupid profile?

Why this year’s Gulf dead zone is twice as big as last year’s

It's the fertilizer, stupid -- and runoff from factory animal farms. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Vermont can’t shut down nuke plant, court says

State lawmakers concerned about radioactive leaks want the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant shut down, but a federal court ruled that's beyond their power.

12-year-old visits state park, leaves $15,000 richer

The park was called Crater of Diamonds State Park.

British farmland missing huge natural benefits potential

Filed under: biocarbon, NBI, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Farm support programs that target only food production miss huge opportunities to generate natural benefits, a new British study documents. A team led by Ian J. Bateman of University of Easy Anglia reported in Science found that carbon storage benefits in […]

Chinese zoo tried to pawn off a furry dog as an “African lion”

Tibetan mastiffs do have a lot of hair. But they look nothing like lions.

Super-cute olinguito lived in American zoos for years without anyone realizing it was a separate species

You would think we would have noticed one "red, furry creature" that looks like "a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist."

Fracking company wants to build new pipeline — for water

Should an energy company be allowed to suck millions of gallons a day from the Ohio River?

Watch a mama panda meet her baby for the first time

Yuan Yuan was introduced to her baby Yuan Zai for the first time since the cub's birth, and immediately bit her on the head. (But with love!)