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World's Toughest Turtle? Titan the Survivor Among 8 Returned to Ocean
If what doesn’t kill you truly makes you stronger, then Titan is the strongest turtle in the ocean. The juvenile Loggerhead turtle has been gashed by a boat propeller, had part of his front flipper bitten off by a shark, and was being attacked by a different shark when two New Jersey fishermen saved him.
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NOAA: Cleaner Air Leads to More Atlantic Hurricanes
Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.
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Watch: House Falls Into Atlantic Ocean After Beach Erodes Beneath it
A house in Rodanthe, North Carolina, collapsed into the ocean after its support was eroded away.
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Massive Cargo Ship Carrying Luxury Cars Sinks in Mid-Atlantic
A large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the United States has sunk in the mid-Atlantic nearly two weeks after a fire broke out on board
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Burning Cargo Ship Full of Porsches En Route to US Adrift In Atlantic Ocean
A burning transport ship carrying Porsches drifted in the mid-Atlantic on Thursday after the huge vessel’s 22 crew members were evacuated due to the blaze, the Portuguese navy said. Shipping in the area was warned that the 650-feet-long Felicity Ace was adrift near Portugal’s Azores Islands after the crew were taken off on Wednesday, Portuguese navy spokesman Cmdr. Jose...
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Shrinking Giants: North Atlantic Right Whales Getting Tinier
The younger generation of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are on average about three feet shorter than whales were 20 years, drone and aircraft data show in a study in Thursday’s journal Current Biology.
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Hurricanes Stay Stronger Longer After Landfall Than in Past
A new study finds that hurricanes are staying stronger longer after striking land than they did decades ago, and that means more destruction inland
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Tropical Storm Eta Ties Record; Expected to Become Hurricane
Rain-heavy Tropical Storm Eta has grown to to near hurricane strength as it heads toward a drenching collision with Central America
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Waterlogged Bag Full of Cocaine Washes Up on Florida Beach
Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.
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Greta Thunberg: Meeting Trump for Climate Change Talk Would Be a ‘Waste of Time'
Youth climate change activist Greta Thunberg said it would be “a waste of time” to meet with President Donald Trump to try to change his opinion on global warming because she doesn’t think there is anything she could say “that he hasn’t already heard.” “I don’t understand why I would do that,” Thunberg, who was publicly mocked by Trump on...
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Activist Thunberg Declines Climate Prize, Urges More Action
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to better tackle global warming, has declined an environmental prize, saying “the climate movement does not need any more prizes.” Two fellow climate activists spoke on Thunberg’s behalf at an award ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm for the regional inter-parliamentary Nordic Council’s prizes, reading...
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‘Change Is Coming Whether You Like it or Not': Greta Thunberg
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Action Summit on Monday.
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Tropical Storm Karen Drenches Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Tropical Storm Karen dropped heavy rain over Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Tuesday evening as it was forecast to move further into the Atlantic.
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Tropical Storm Karen Forms in Atlantic as Jerry Continues Route to Bermuda
The National Hurricane Center on Sunday said Tropical Storm Karen has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, leading to warnings for some islands.
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Walloped by Heat Wave, Greenland Sees Massive Ice Melt
The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is a semi-autonomous Danish territory between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has 82% of its surface covered in ice....
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Climate Talks Held as Arctic Ice Melts, Concerns Grow
Diplomats and climate experts gathered Monday in Germany for U.N.-hosted talks on climate change amid growing public pressure for governments to act faster against global warming. Officials meeting in the western city of Bonn for the June 17-27 talks are focusing on resolving issues that couldn’t be agreed upon at last December’s climate summit in Poland. This includes the rules...
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Ceremony, Political Jibes Mark Trump's First Day in London
Mixing pageantry and pugilism, President Donald Trump plunged into his long-delayed state visit to Britain on Monday, welcomed with smiles and a cannon salute by the royals but launching political insults at others in a time of turmoil for both nations in the deep, if recently strained, alliance. It was a whirlwind of pomp, circumstance and protest for Trump, who...
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Ceremony, Political Jibes Mark Trump's First Day in London
Mixing pageantry and pugilism, President Donald Trump plunged into his long-delayed state visit to Britain on Monday, welcomed with smiles and a cannon salute by the royals but launching political insults at others in a time of turmoil for both nations in the deep, if recently strained, alliance. It was a whirlwind of pomp, circumstance and protest for Trump, who...
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SpaceX Launches Rocket With First Batch of Thousands of Satellites
Hawthorne-based SpaceX Thursday night launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral with the first batch of what could ultimately be thousands of satellites providing space-based internet service around the globe after the mission was scrubbed twice last week.
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SpaceX Again Cancels Launch
Hawthorne-based SpaceX again canceled plans Thursday night to launch the first of what could eventually be thousands of satellites designed to provide space-based internet service around the globe.