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Polar Bear Dies As Bird Flu Strain H5N1 Sweeps Across the Globe
In the last two years, as more wild birds got sick, different animals like dolphins, porpoises, seals, foxes, and otters also got the disease.
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Lewis Hamilton Welcomes "Porpoising" Intervention, Disagrees With Max Verstappen
Lewis Hamilton on Friday welcomed the FIA's intervention to overcome 'porpoising' on health and safety grounds and said any steps taken were unlikely to affect the grid for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.
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Max Verstappen Disappointed By FIA Intervention Over "Porpoising"
World champion Max Verstappen on Friday said a mid-season intervention on safety grounds to solve Formula One's 'porpoising' problems was "a bit of a shame."
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F1: "Wouldn't Miss It For The World" - Lewis Hamilton Shuts Down Rumours About Canadian GP
Lewis Hamilton was rumoured to miss the Canadian GP as he was recovering from back pain issues caused in the Azerbaijan GP weekend, but he has come up with a response.
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F1: Lewis Hamilton To Miss The 2022 Canadian GP?
Mercedes-AMG F1 team boss Toto Wolff is concerned that Lewis Hamilton's back issues caused by the aggressive bouncing of the W13 F1 car may result in him missing the Canadian GP the following weekend.
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Genome Study Provides Important Insight on Endangered Vaquita Native to Mexico's Gulf of California
Genetic Assessment has provided new hope to save small tropical porpoise native to Mexico's Gulf of California with its population dwindling to about 10. Computational simulations performed by the researchers to predict extinction risk showed that vaquitas have a high chance of rebounding if fishing gillnets are completely eliminated from their hab...
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F1: Ferrari To Address Porpoising With Imola Update
Ferrari will bring a minor update that could eliminate the porpoising issue that impacts its car which could unlock even more performance
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From Porpoise Detectors to 'Hawkeyes', How Technology Empowers Ecology
A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.
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Smiling At Danger, China's Finless Porpoise Fights To Survive
In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China's most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.
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Toxic, Red Algae Bloom Leaves Trail Of Dead Marine Animals In Florida
Florida's governor this week made official what residents of Southwest Florida already knew: The bloom of toxic algae that has darkened Gulf waters is an emergency. The red tide has made breathing difficult for locals, scared away tourists, and strewn popular beaches with the stinking carcasses of fish, eels, porpoises, turtles, manatees and one 26...
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Asian Dolphins A Step Closer To Extinction, Say Scientists
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said on Tuesday it had changed the status of the Irrawaddy dolphin and finless porpoise, both living in Asian waters, to "endangered" from "vulnerable", meaning they are closer to extinction.
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Dutch Fishermen Caught A Rare Two-Headed Sea Creature. What Happened Next Horrified Researcher.
In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things. Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes, for the shores of the Netherlands are teeming with hundreds of thousands of them.
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Mexico Scrambles To Save World's Smallest Porpoise
Mexican authorities and scientists are scrambling to save the world's smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, from extinction, capturing illegal "ghost" fishing nets while hoping to make specimens reproduce in captivity.
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Mexico Bans Gillnets To Protect Endangered Porpoise
Mexico said it will ban the use of gillnets for shrimp fishing in an area of the northern Gulf of California that is the habitat for the endangered vaquita marina porpoise.
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World's Smallest Porpoise Nearer Extinction In Mexico
Environmentalists warned on Friday that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as the government reported that only 60 were now left.
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Polar Bear Dies As Bird Flu Strain H5N1 Sweeps Across the Globe
In the last two years, as more wild birds got sick, different animals like dolphins, porpoises, seals, foxes, and otters also got the disease.
-
Lewis Hamilton Welcomes "Porpoising" Intervention, Disagrees With Max Verstappen
Lewis Hamilton on Friday welcomed the FIA's intervention to overcome 'porpoising' on health and safety grounds and said any steps taken were unlikely to affect the grid for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.
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Max Verstappen Disappointed By FIA Intervention Over "Porpoising"
World champion Max Verstappen on Friday said a mid-season intervention on safety grounds to solve Formula One's 'porpoising' problems was "a bit of a shame."
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F1: "Wouldn't Miss It For The World" - Lewis Hamilton Shuts Down Rumours About Canadian GP
Lewis Hamilton was rumoured to miss the Canadian GP as he was recovering from back pain issues caused in the Azerbaijan GP weekend, but he has come up with a response.
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F1: Lewis Hamilton To Miss The 2022 Canadian GP?
Mercedes-AMG F1 team boss Toto Wolff is concerned that Lewis Hamilton's back issues caused by the aggressive bouncing of the W13 F1 car may result in him missing the Canadian GP the following weekend.
-
Genome Study Provides Important Insight on Endangered Vaquita Native to Mexico's Gulf of California
Genetic Assessment has provided new hope to save small tropical porpoise native to Mexico's Gulf of California with its population dwindling to about 10. Computational simulations performed by the researchers to predict extinction risk showed that vaquitas have a high chance of rebounding if fishing gillnets are completely eliminated from their hab...
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F1: Ferrari To Address Porpoising With Imola Update
Ferrari will bring a minor update that could eliminate the porpoising issue that impacts its car which could unlock even more performance
-
From Porpoise Detectors to 'Hawkeyes', How Technology Empowers Ecology
A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.
-
Smiling At Danger, China's Finless Porpoise Fights To Survive
In an oxbow lake along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a breathy sigh pierces the surface stillness as one of China's most endangered animals comes up for a gulp of hazy air.
-
Toxic, Red Algae Bloom Leaves Trail Of Dead Marine Animals In Florida
Florida's governor this week made official what residents of Southwest Florida already knew: The bloom of toxic algae that has darkened Gulf waters is an emergency. The red tide has made breathing difficult for locals, scared away tourists, and strewn popular beaches with the stinking carcasses of fish, eels, porpoises, turtles, manatees and one 26...
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Asian Dolphins A Step Closer To Extinction, Say Scientists
The International Union for Conservation of Nature said on Tuesday it had changed the status of the Irrawaddy dolphin and finless porpoise, both living in Asian waters, to "endangered" from "vulnerable", meaning they are closer to extinction.
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Dutch Fishermen Caught A Rare Two-Headed Sea Creature. What Happened Next Horrified Researcher.
In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things. Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes, for the shores of the Netherlands are teeming with hundreds of thousands of them.
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Mexico Scrambles To Save World's Smallest Porpoise
Mexican authorities and scientists are scrambling to save the world's smallest porpoise, the vaquita marina, from extinction, capturing illegal "ghost" fishing nets while hoping to make specimens reproduce in captivity.
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Mexico Bans Gillnets To Protect Endangered Porpoise
Mexico said it will ban the use of gillnets for shrimp fishing in an area of the northern Gulf of California that is the habitat for the endangered vaquita marina porpoise.
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World's Smallest Porpoise Nearer Extinction In Mexico
Environmentalists warned on Friday that Mexico's vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as the government reported that only 60 were now left.
