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Coco the Yorkie spent the night on a 295-foot cliff before firefighters rescued her

After making it through the night trapped on a steep coastal cliff on the Spanish island of Mallorca, a Yorkshire terrier ...
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After pneumonia deaths, Tennessee bear rescue is cleared to take orphaned cubs again

Appalachian Bear Rescue in Townsend, Tennessee has once again been cleared to take in orphaned black bear cubs, restoring an ...
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In Australia, a couple demolished their home after termites 'rained out of the wall'

The Healesville home the couple had planned to keep as their forever home had to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.
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Florida park finds 19 albino alligator eggs, the first known successful batch laid in captivity

A Florida-based alligator park has discovered the first-ever recorded successful batch of albino alligator eggs laid in ...
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In the US, millions of feral hogs are wrecking farms, fouling water, and defying control

Millions of feral hogs now occupy parts of the United States, and the destruction they cause reaches far beyond churned-up ...
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Kentucky parents grow enough tomatoes and green beans for a year on less than 1 acre

In a TikTok garden tour, a creator highlighted how their parents use less than one acre in Kentucky to raise an impressive ...
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San Diego posts warning signs after mountain lion appears at Mission Trails park

Warning signs have now been posted around San Diego's Mission Trails Regional Park this week after several people reported ...
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Across the US, 70% oppose AI data centers as backlash grows over water, power, and noise

The growing backlash against data centers is putting an unglamorous part of the recent AI tech boom under new scrutiny.
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California pilot taps parked EVs to power 120 homes, feed energy back to the grid

California is launching a state-funded pilot program to study whether parked EVs can keep the lights on during outages and ...
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Empty garden beds in August can still yield broccoli, peas, and more by fall

August is a planting opportunity many gardeners miss once spring crops are finished and summer beds start looking spent.
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Assiniboine Park Zoo welcomes an endangered red panda cub after a surprise birth

Assiniboine Park Zoo is celebrating an unexpected arrival: a healthy endangered red panda cub has been born. The male cub's ...
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After 40 years performing, Portugal's last circus elephant reaches the country's first sanctuary

Portugal's final circus elephant is no longer in the ring: after 40 years of performances, Julie, an African elephant captured as a calf in the late 1980s, has been moved into retirement and into a ...