NASA's satellite images have revealed that the melting ice has facilitated the opening up of both the north-west and north-east passages, making it possible for marine vessels to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap.

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As the world's oceans become more acidic, the underwater sounds that whales and other marine mammals depend on for survival may turn into a confusing racket, a new study says.

Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.

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Residents took part in rituals like picking through the charred remains of their homes and feigning shock that this could happen to them.

BAR HARBOR -- A noted whale expert offered ways to reduce the number of right whales killed by ship collisions, during her talk at the Bar Harbor Whale Museum on Sept. 18.

The South Australian government says more needs to be done to protect the water quality for dolphins in Adelaide's Port River, the only pod known to exist within a major city anywhere in the world.