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One Cool Thing: Hug a Tree! We can’t hug people during the coronavirus outbreak but the Icelandic Forestry Service has another idea: go hug a tree. That’s been their official advice to cooped up Icelanders to cope with a lack of social contact. The Foresty Service has even been clearing snow to allow people safe access […]
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Whales around the globe face numerous threats as has become apparent in recent weeks. Just this past weekend a young Cuvier’s beaked whale that was weak and vomiting blood washed up on the shore in Mabini, Philippines and eventually died. When the government performed a necropsy yesterday, it found a gruesome sight — 88 pounds of plastic in the whale’s stomach.
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