Cape Cod dolphin beachings at 129; more expected 06.02.2012, 17:08:04 Nearly 130 dolphins have beached themselves on Cape Cod in the last three weeks, with 92 dying in what's become "the single largest stranding" in at least two decades in the Northeast.
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Protest over plans to protect Northwest caribou 06.02.2012, 14:24:47 Woodland caribou, rarely-seen creatures that with their antlers stand as tall as a man, are struggling to survive in the United States, precariously occupying one remote area of the Northwest as a final toehold in the Lower 48.
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Lawsuit: Gulf oil spill still leaking after 7 years 02.02.2012, 20:21:26 Environmental groups on Thursday sued an oil company over the pace of its cleanup of a Gulf of Mexico spill that continues seven years after it was triggered by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
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Forecasters in stormy debate over climate 02.02.2012, 20:20:07 Whether mankind is behind warming temperatures is an issue that's divided the American Meteorological Society, whose members are Americans' prime source of news about weather.
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Glacier theft suspects on thin ice with Chilean police 02.02.2012, 03:15:22 Thieves have stolen 11,000 pounds of ancient ice from a Chilean glacier to make designer cubes for cocktails in bars in the nation's capital, Santiago, authorities have told local media.
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US: Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward 02.02.2012, 19:15:55 Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would leave no major environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
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US estimates tritium release at Illinois reactor 02.02.2012, 18:39:37 The trace amount of radioactive tritium released in steam to cool a reactor during a shutdown at an Illinois nuclear plant was not enough to present a danger to the public, according to the first estimates by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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