By Kathy Antoniotti
Akron Beacon Journal
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KEY LARGO, Fla. — Each year we make a pilgrimage to a group of islands we call paradise, an archipelago that juts between the Atlantic Ocean and...
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By Jenny Staletovich
The Miami Herald
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MIAMI — In matters of love, nothing says romance like a moonlit beach. Especially if you’re a lusty horseshoe crab and the tide is high.
Every...
Sun Sentinel
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a remote part of southwestern Palm Beach County, as a platoon of reporters and photographers watched, a Florida panther was lowered to the ground in...
By Mark Butler
Los Angeles Times
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After nearly 38 years working for the National Park Service, I hung up my “flat hat” this month and retired as superintendent of Joshua Tree National...
By Sandy Bauers
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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PHILADELPHIA — About 15 years ago, Villanova University biology professor Robert Curry was looking for a project that would allow his students...
By Matt Pearce
Los Angeles Times
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About 350 people were stranded in eastern Montana on Tuesday when rivers overflowed their banks because of melting ice and snow.
Hundreds of residents...
The Dallas Morning News
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Few things more annoying to a driver than smelling a putrid smoke cloud coming from the tailpipe of an old beatup car that you just know is spewing all kinds of foul...
By Michael Muskal
Los Angeles Times
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Spring is less than a month away, but be prepared to first pay the toll for its arrival with the return of the polar vortex.
Frigid air will be back...
By Deborah Netburn
Los Angeles Times
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Listen up loners: A new study says having friends can make you smarter, at least if you’re a baby cow.
Researchers from the University of British...
By Amanda Salvucci
Capital News Service
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CHESTER, Md. — It’s late morning. On a warmer day, watermen would have been out on the bay for hours.
But Roger Corbman’s 89-year-old boat...
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By Jennifer O’Connor
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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People around the world were justifiably outraged when a healthy young giraffe was killed because he didn’t...
By Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press
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App: MetrO, available for iPhone and other platforms (see http://nanika.net/.)
Lowdown: Basic directions from here to there on subways for hundreds...
