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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A panel of scientists warned that climate change, overfishing, and other man-made environmental problems are pushing life in the oceans to the brink of mass extinction. Earlier this month, 27 marine experts published a report, which highlights the alarming decline in the
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A teenager from the Philippines was declared the world’s shortest man by the Guinness World Records earlier this month. Eighteen-year-old Junrey Balawing is just 59.9 centimeters tall. Although he was born a normal-size baby, he stopped growing after his second birthday. His parents were
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Earlier this month, a 14-year-old Indian-American girl from Pennsylvania named Sukanya Roy won the National Spelling Bee Competition. She correctly spelled the word “cymotrichous,” which means “to have wavy hair.” Roy took home a trophy and $40,000 in cash and prizes.
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On May 22, a deadly tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, in the U.S. The tornado, which had winds of 322 kilometers per hour, was one of the most destructive in U.S. history. It killed 142 people, injured more than 990, and destroyed about 2,000 buildings. President Obama, who
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According to a new international study, Japanese students have the best classroom behavior in the world. South Korean students ranked 6th behind Japan, Kazakhstan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Romania. Despite global concerns about bad classroom behavior, a report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and
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On May 7, Ming Ming, the world’s oldest panda, died of old age in China. She was 34 years old. The female panda was rescued in Pingwu County in central China in 1977. In 1991, she was sent to London to mate with a Berlin panda named Bao Bao. However, she flew back to China after the two fought and failed to produce
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American scientists have discovered that up to 6 different species of whales can be found near New York City. They placed 10 underwater sound recorders off the coast of Long Island and in the New York Harbor. They wanted to find out how noise pollution from ships affect
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