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Thursday May 9 | Live Science

Worst-Ever Right Whale Die-Off Continues to Puzzle

Scientists still don't know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after observers first saw signs of the worst die-off on record for the species, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society .

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Obama Advisor: 'The Law Is Irrelevant' On IRS Fiasco

MISSPEAKS Remark draws criticism from House conservative leader Steve Scalise

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Thursday May 9 | Spokane Journal of Business

Open space said to lift home prices

Homes in neighborhoods that incorporate protected open space command prices 20 to 29 percent higher than those without open space, says a new study by a Colorado State University multidisciplinary research team that included Wildlife Conservation Society scientist Sarah Reed.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Science Daily

Sushi for peccaries?

The images of fish consumption by white-lipped peccaries were taken by Douglas Fernandes in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands one morning back in 2011.

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Sun Apr 28, 2013

CBS Local

Eye On New York: A Big Weekend For The Bronx Zoo, A Motown Musical, And More

With the Broadway awards season heating up CBS 2's Dana Tyler takes a look at Motown The Musical.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

EDGE

NY Aquarium Recovers From Hurricane Sandy

The New York Aquarium will partially reopen on May 25, a milestone that will be celebrated about seven months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the 14-acre aquarium campus.

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