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A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two ...

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American Humane Society, the United States’ first national humane organization and the world’s largest certifier of animal ...

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A new Tel Aviv University study has uncovered alarming findings about the spread of microplastic particles in the marine food ...

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