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Northern Right whale.Eubalaena glacialis.Social group, at dusk, in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Sometimes up to 10 or 20 Right whales get together in large active groups, which may be mating groups, or simply social groups. (Photo by: Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists Have Recorded A Rare Right Whale Singing For the First Time. It Does Have the Range

Right whales make a variety of sounds, including upcalls, moans, screams an...

Right whales make a variety of sounds, including upcalls, moans, screams and warbles

281 Dead Dolphins Have Washed Up Along the Gulf Coast So Far This Year

Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead at a Disturbing Rate This Year — And Scientists Aren't Sure Why

Lingering effects from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as environm...

Lingering effects from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as environmental factors, are potential causes

Google Doodle celebrates the start of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere on Friday, June 21.

Google Celebrates the Summer Solstice With a Pastel Doodle

The summer solstice makes today the longest day and shortest night of 2019

Marijuana plants grow under artificial light at the Green Pearl Organics dispensary on the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in California on January 1, 2018 at the Green Pearl Organics marijuana dispensary in Desert Hot Springs, California.

The Environmental Downside of Cannabis Cultivation

New research has linked its production to many issues, including wildlife d...

New research has linked its production to many issues, including wildlife deaths

Plastic bottles seen in a recycling factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 18, 2019.

Is Plastic Pollution Depriving Us of Oxygen?

Plastic debris is killing the ocean’s 'invisible forests' that produce oxyg...

Plastic debris is killing the ocean’s 'invisible forests' that produce oxygen

New study show that glacier are melting at a rate 70 years faster than expected.

Canada's Permafrost Is Thawing 70 Years Earlier Than Expected, Study Shows. Scientists Are 'Quite Surprised'

A study co-author tells TIME the speed at the thawing took researchers by s...

A study co-author tells TIME the speed at the thawing took researchers by surprise

In this handout image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Expedition 28 flight engineer, waits at an International Space Station's pressurized mating adapter (PMA-2) docked to the space shuttle Atlantis, as the station's robotic system moves the failed pump module (out of frame) over to the spacewalking astronaut and the shuttle's cargo bay during a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk July 12, 2011 in space.

NASA Opens International Space Station to Private Visitors, With a Hefty Price Tag

Private space travel will begin as early as 2020, but for a hefty price. NA...

Private space travel will begin as early as 2020, but for a hefty price. NASA announced Friday that it would open the International Space Station to private individuals and more commercial business at roughly $35,000...

Scientists Have Recorded A Rare Right Whale Singing For the First Time. It Does Have the Range

Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead at a Disturbing Rate This Year — And Scientists Aren't Sure Why

Google Celebrates the Summer Solstice With a Pastel Doodle

The Environmental Downside of Cannabis Cultivation

Is Plastic Pollution Depriving Us of Oxygen?

Canada's Permafrost Is Thawing 70 Years Earlier Than Expected, Study Shows. Scientists Are 'Quite Surprised'

NASA Opens International Space Station to Private Visitors, With a Hefty Price Tag

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