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Thousands of penguin chicks in four emperor penguin colonies likely died after Antarctic ice broke up earlier than usual last year, creating a “catastrophic breeding failure.”
Maui County filed a lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric Company this week over the fires that destroyed thousands of structures and killed over 100 people this month.
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Eight Republican presidential candidates took the stage on Wednesday night for the first GOP debate.
In a sad case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the subject of a space debris cleanup mission was itself hit by a piece of space junk.
Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago.
A reticulated giraffe was born without spots at a Tennessee Zoo on July 31, making it a rare, one-of-a-kind mammal. The Brights Zoo in Limestone announced it had welcomed the female giraffe and said experts “believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe living anywhere on the planet.”