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As plants bloom earlier due to rising temperatures, caribou are arriving at their calving grounds when the bounty is past its peak, leading to fewer births and a lower survival rate, researchers say.

May 12, 2008
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Poisonous chemicals trapped for decades in ice are now seeping into the polar ecosystem via glacial meltwater, researchers report.

May 12, 2008
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See a supercell light up the Texas sky, U.S. Marines braving a sandstorm in Afghanistan, the Olympic torch reach the top of Mount Everest, and more.

May 9, 2008
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Watch young chimpanzees beat Japanese college students in a short-term-memory test by a wide margin—raising questions about primate intelligence and evolution.

May 9, 2008
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The world's largest group of orangutans in Indonesia may face extinction by 2011 because of palm oil plantation expansion, which is destroying habitat, experts say.

May 8, 2008
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Great tits are timing their egg laying to coincide with an earlier emergence of caterpillars in England, a decades-long study has found.

May 8, 2008
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Thousands of horses, cows, and other livestock face a possibly toxic brew of deep ash and gases. And the region's all-important farms may be devastated for decades.

May 7, 2008
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Eight Amur leopards—the world's rarest big cats—were recently photographed in far southeastern Russia, giving renewed hope to conservationists.

May 7, 2008
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The genome of the platypus—our most distant mammal relative—has been decoded, revealing traces of mammals' evolutionary break from reptiles hundreds of millions of years ago.

May 7, 2008
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A six-month-old whale found dead on a New Zealand coastline is giving scientists a rare peek into the anatomy of the bizarre creature.

May 7, 2008
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After 9,000 years Chaiten volcano has exploded back to life, forcing people to flee its southern Chile region.

May 6, 2008
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Wildlife officials in the Cayman Islands are struggling to determine who killed six extremely rare blue iguanas recently found butchered in a nature preserve.

May 6, 2008
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Debate has heated up over a controversial theory that suggests huge comet impacts wiped out North America's large mammals nearly 13,000 years ago.

May 6, 2008
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Shot through the beak, Beauty the bald eagle currently has to be hand fed. But she'll soon be surgically fitted with a nylon-composite beak.

May 5, 2008
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The U.S. trails only China in sales of worked ivory pieces, in part because of legal loopholes, lax enforcement, and the ease of arranging deliveries online, a new report claims.

May 5, 2008

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