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Soil mixed with small pieces of colorful plastic waste, highlighting environmental pollution.

Outdoors

Microplastics in crops could end up on your plate, study warns

Rescue workers assist two stranded pilot whales on inflatable rafts in shallow water, wearing life jackets.

Outdoors

Mass stranding of whale pod reveals key info about 'notoriously difficult' species to study

A person holds a hose spraying herbicide on grass.

Tech

Common weed-killer linked to increase in colon cancer in young people

A stack of packaged sandwiches sits on a table at customs at an airport.

Business

US airport sniffer dog busts man traveling from Thailand with over 100 sandwiches

A boat's propeller covered in invasive zebra mussels.

Outdoors

Officials offering up to $200K for ideas to stop rapidly spreading shellfish

Sea lions on a dock. One exceptionally large sea lion howls.

Outdoors

2,000-pound 'beast' of a sea lion named Chonkers draws crowds in San Fran

Two police officers escort a handcuffed person wearing a beekeeping suit outside a house.

Home

Beekeeper jailed after video shows her unleash bees on police to save cancer patient from eviction

A rocky coastline with a visible ancient pathway leading into clear water, featuring boats and lush green hills.

Outdoors

Receding water reveals 3,500-year-old road to ancient city in Turkey

A hut on a river.

Outdoors

Toxic arsenic found in Asia's longest free-flowing river

Two Asian needle ants are walking on soil.

Outdoors

Gardeners warned that tiny ant with potentially lethal sting is rapidly spreading across US

A dolphin swimming gracefully underwater in a dimly lit environment.

Outdoors

Scientists discover remains of 180 million-year-old dolphin-like sea monster

Lake Huron on the left, and a person looks at "fish city" footage on the right.

Outdoors

'Jaw-dropping' underwater footage shows 'fish city' near nuclear plant on Lake Huron