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Ghost traps are silently devastating America's fisheries

The Ghost Trap Crisis Haunting America's Fisheries — and the Program Fighting Back Somewhere along the seafloor off Midcoast Maine, a lobster trap sits in darkness. It has no owner. No one is coming ...

A Turtle with a Bright Blue Shell Was Found in Kentucky. Now Wildlife Experts Are Racing to Undo the Damage

The Eastern box turtle was found with a bright blue shell — and a layer of red paint underneath, suggesting she’d been ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Sea Turtles Were Spotted Nesting on the U.S. West Coast. Scientists Say the ‘Super’ El Niño Could Have Brought Them There

Left: An olive ridley turtle nesting near the Huntington Beach Pier. Right: Eggs laid near Seal Beach. Left: Huntington Beach Fire Department. Right: NOAA Fisheries. Both via Facebook This month, ...
Reuters

Trump says he is removing US tariffs on Irish whiskey

Trump made announcement to cheers at Irish golf course Irish whiskey part of tariffs agreed in EU-U.S. trade deal Whiskey lobby calls for zero tariffs on all drinks exports DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 ...
The Guardian

In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches

What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the ‘million dollar question’ A sea turtle crawled out of the surf in southern California last weekend around sunset and started ...
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They recovered a drift buoy near Zanzibar - what was growing on it could matter for MH370

Ten years after the first MH370 debris washed ashore, the case gets a new twist from something far less glamorous than people probably wanted. A drifting buoy recovered near Zanzibar was found covered ...
Reuters

US senators introduce bill to remove D.C. judge residency requirements for two federal courts

Sept 23 (Reuters) - Two US senators have introduced a bill to remove a requirement that judges on the Washington, D.C.-based US Court of Federal Claims and US Court of ‌Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...
Dezeen

"We remove places where young people can gather in small groups, then panic when they gather in large ones"

Paranoia over so-called "teen takeovers" ignores the fundamental problem: that our cities have left young people with nowhere to go, writes Christopher Martin. America this summer acquired the phrase ...
BBC

Mass nesting brings swarms of turtles to Mexican beach

Thousands of olive ridley turtles came to La Escobilla beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, to lay their eggs within 48 hours, according to sanctuary officials. The natural phenomenon is known as "la arribada", ...
Popular Science

Tiny two-headed turtle found in Cape Cod

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WCIV

Three rehabilitated sea turtles set for release Wednesday at Folly Beach

A loggerhead and a Kemp's ridley sea turtle will be released at Folly Beach Wednesday after recieving treatment at the South ...
CNBC

Trump, Xi seek trade stability and deals, but AI, tariffs and Iran loom large. What to watch

President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss ways to strengthen their fragile trade truce when they meet face-to-face in Washington this week. They will have to ...