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A spike in urban wildlife in New York City is complicating pest control and creating a public health risk not normally faced by city-slickers, a wildlife expert says. Already this year, six wild coyotes have been spotted across Manhattan, a signif

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The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to i

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The Tennesseean

Rep. Marsha Blackburn has sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that the Environmental Protection Agency drop a contest for citizens to produce a short video extolling the value of the federal rule making process.

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Up until a century ago, they returned annually to the Elwha River on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula in runs so huge that homesteaders reported that the river turned into a wiggling mass from bank to bank. One count placed their number at 392,0