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Proposed Wildlife Resources Commission rule could harm listed red wolves The breeding red wolf female of the Northern Pack runs after being released by a red wolf biologist in January 2010. She was captured to replace the batteries on her radio collar.

House mouse; courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/George Shuklin Four-legged stowaways hitched a ride aboard the wooden 10th- and 11th-century Viking ships that braved the northern seas.

Humans have harvested the sea for tens of thousands of years, but only in the past few centuries have we begun to take a big toll on ecosystems. The two food webs below show predatory relationships among life-forms in the northern Adriatic Sea.

A year ago today, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Northern Japan. In the wake of this earthquake, a massive tsunami would flatten the Northern Tohoku region , killing nearly 20,000 people and knocking out power to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Few places on Earth are so full of geological mayhem as a subduction zone.

STINSON BEACH, Calif. -- The Pacific Ocean laps against a seaside property in the small Northern California town.

Human males living with their moms may not expect to have much luck hooking up this Valentine’s Day. But among the northern muriqui monkeys, males that spend the most time around their mothers seem to get an added boost when mating time rolls around. [More]

Is the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii ) the most interesting endangered species in the world? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t but it has definitely attracted the attention of the Dos Equis beer commercial spokesperson known only as “the Most Interesting Man in the World.” The television advertising icon and Dos Equis have launched an auction for a jar of what they call The Most Interesting Jam a concoction made from ingredients suggested by Facebook fans and supposedly hand-mixed by the Most Interesting Man in the World himself with all proceeds going to benefit the Wombat Foundation, an organization set up to protect the critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombat.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A team from Japan won a world solar car race through Australia's outback on Thursday, after battling more than 3,000 km (1,800 miles) of remote highways, dodging kangaroos and other wildlife and avoiding a bushfire. Race officials said the team from Tokai University, near Tokyo, finished the race from the northern city of Darwin to the southern city of Adelaide at about noon on Thursday. [More]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday. The ozone layer high in the stratosphere acts like a giant shield against the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can cause skin cancers and cataracts

By Kelli Dugan MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Auburn University researchers said oil mats submerged in the seabed more than a year after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history pose long-term threats to coastal ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. [More]

Flu season is just around the corner in the northern hemisphere. But for birds and pigs, it's flu season year round.

Stephen Dodd of Wales shot 6 under for the first 13 holes of his second round to stand 8 under for the tournament Friday before darkness forced 78 players to abandon their rounds at the KLM Open

U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy says an arm injury won't keep him out of the European Masters next week in Switzerland, and confirmed Thursday that he's dating top-ranked women's tennis player Caroline Wozniacki

The future looks warmer for many major cities, that's clear--but perhaps you missed the part where it's also forecast to look wetter. Scientific measurements show that the quantity of rainfall that fell on the Northern Hemisphere intensified in the second half of the 20th century. At least some of that increase can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change, according to a recent study .