Costa Rica's Cocos Island National Park, nicknamed "Shark Island," has what might be the highest concentration of sharks anywhere. But even here, sharks are vulnerable.
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Cow's emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas, can be reduced with a more natural diet, farmers are learning. Methane is a powerful contributor to global warming.
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A supersonic car, a brand-new mosque, and Los Angeles wildfires are captured in some of the week's best photos.
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The tiny-limbed creature is the first of 14 new species to be identified from a January expedition to Brazil's central savanna.
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The environmental group Greenpeace warns that if Indonesia doesn't eliminate rapid deforestation in the country, its forests could be gone in 10 years.
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The online auction house announced the ban a day before a report by an animal welfare group revealed the site to be a major driver in illegal trade of wildlife products.
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Brazilian Christians pray before a mass baptism, a lizard sculpture eyes chefs at the Culinary Olympics, and more in our weekly update of culture photos.
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A 2008 expedition to the Xe Bang Fai River cave in the central part of the country uncovers "spectacular formations," and some of the largest cave rooms on Earth.
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A northern Mexico valley may hold the first human footprint in the Americas, and could even provide the basis for discovering organisms on Mars, according to a NASA scientist.
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Mining methods, including dredging and river diversions, have damaged rural landscapes and local lifestyles, activists say.
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A mining boom in Mongolia is threatening to destroy the country's essential watersheds and is forcing nomadic herders to abandon their land and traditional way of life, environmentalists warn.
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Boxed penguins, blazes in L.A., a ball of "lightning," and a big shipwreck are captured in some of the week's best news photos.
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A sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, strafes residents, who use scarves or masks to ease breathing.
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Warmer waters around Antarctica could actually benefit a threatened population of gray nurse—or sand tiger—sharks, scientists say.
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A red deer stag roars during mating season, a rescued penguin returns to the sea, and more in our weekly update of animal photos.
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Hundreds of fruit species flourish in the Amazon region, but relatively few--like antioxidant-rich acai, a wild palm fruit --ever reach international markets. Experts say fruits are a vital part of th...
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A small town in Brazil's Amazon region uses Asian water buffaloes instead of trucks to collect rubbish.
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Once obscure Amazon fruits like açaí are riding health claims to supermarket success. Could a scaly palm fruit with three times the vitamin A of carrots be the rain forest's next popular export?
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West African chimpanzees have declined by 90 percent in the last 18 years in an African country that is one of the subspecies' "final strongholds," a new study stays.
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In Ethiopia farmers are being taught how to use livestock dung as arenewable energy source to create gas for cooking.
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