Last week, more than 40,000 people from all over the world descended into the small Spanish town of Bunol to participate in the world’s largest food fight. This year, five loaded trucks dumped about 120 tons of ripe tomatoes at the Plaza Mayor, the town’s main square. At the sound of
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A new study estimates that the Earth is home to about 8.7 million species; a figure that scientists described as the most accurate ever. However, the vast majority have yet to be identified and cataloguing them could take more than 1,000 years.
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For three days, thousands of wildlife workers and volunteers in Sri Lanka waited patiently near reservoirs and water holes in an effort to carry out the island’s first full count of its declining wild elephant population. Nearly 4,000 rangers, farmers, and villagers were sent to more than 1,500 different locations across the country to
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Researchers at Emory University in the U.S. have cleared chimpanzees of the long-held belief that they are selfish animals who hate to share. A new study has found that chimps can show selfless behavior. This also reveals that our closest living relatives are a lot like humans. Previous experiments have
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The greatest threat to the South African soldiers who guard Kruger National Park are not the wild animals. The lions, cheetahs, and other fearsome animals that roam the park generally leave them alone. It’s the poachers - those who are heavily armed with guns and grenades - that pose an even more dangerous threat.
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An algae bloom that has blanketed almost 20,000 square kilometers of the Yellow Sea didn’t stop beachgoers in Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong Province, from jumping into the green-colored waters. The algae belong to a species of marine plankton found in waters all around the world. In the right
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Recently, polar bears have been added to Canada’s species at risk list. Now, a plan must be made within three years to prevent the iconic Arctic animal from becoming endangered or threatened. This move was made three years after a group of scientists advised the Canadian government that the bears needed special
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Millions of tons of garbage, most of it plastic debris, are dumped into the oceans every year. This may pose a deadly threat to whales, according to a report at an international whaling forum last week. Thousands of documents from the past 20 years reveal that about 80 species of whales and dolphins
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Even Captain Jack Sparrow would be impressed with the treasures found on the ‘Nuestra Senora de Atocha,’ a 17th century Spanish ship that sank near Florida in the U.S. Since the shipwrecked site was discovered in 1985 by an American salvage company called Mel Fisher, more than 40 tons of gold, silver, emeralds, and
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A group of slow moving turtles caused a few flight delays at one of the busiest airports in the world last week. About 150 Diamondback Terrapins were found crossing a runway at John F. Kennedy International in New York. They were trying to reach the sandy shores of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, which borders
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