New Zealand
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The world’s first official climate refugees land in New Zealand
New Zealand accepts a refugee family from Tuvalu hoping to escape their sinking island nation.
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Professional athletes are spraying deer antler velvet into their mouths
There is a great kerfuffle in the sports world over a bunch of football players who have been taking performance-enhancing supplements containing extracts from deer antler velvet.
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New Zealand economist wants you to get rid of your cat
It's not that Gareth Morgan doesn't like cats. It's that he thinks your kitty is a "natural born killer."
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Loud, grumpy parrot is back from the brink of extinction, and it wants to have sex with your head
The kakapo is probably the best parrot. It has the face and personality of Walter Matthau and regularly tries to get it on with human heads. What's not to like?
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Giant prehistoric penguins!
Scientists have spent the past 35 years reconstructing a giant penguin fossil from New Zealand, and here’s the first look at their results. Kairuku (Maori for “diver who returns with food”) lived about 25 million years ago, and it looks a little different from modern penguins. For starters, it’s more than 4 feet tall.
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Baby seal breaks into house to sleep on sofa
This baby fur seal snuck through a cat flap into a New Zealand home and snuggled up on the sofa. Awwww who's a good little home invader? Who? Who? Look, he's even got a pillow! Okay, so the killjoy New Zealand Department of Conservation, which took the above photo, wants you to know that fur […]
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World’s only white kiwi pulls through surgery
Manukura, the world's only known white kiwi (not an albino!), had endoscopic surgery Friday to break up a large stone she'd swallowed. Kiwis normally eat small stones to help with digestion, but Manukura's eyes were bigger than her stomach, and the stone got stuck in her gizzard. Doctors operated using a laser that's usually used […]
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You know you want to knit a sweater for a penguin
Now is the time for all good knitters to come to the aid of some penguins. The New Zealand oil spill has left the little guys in need of some warmth and protection, and a Kiwi yarn store has posted patterns for how to knit "penguin jumpers" and instructions on where to send them.
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Critical List: Climate change is shrinking animals; Mexico could export water to the U.S.
Climate change is shrinking animals, like sheep and salamanders, and fruits too.
Mexico could start exporting water into the United States.
One partner in the Macondo well is ponying up $4 billion to settle with BP over last year's oil spill.