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A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Port Stephens, Australia, on June 14, 2021. Lonely humpback whales are more likely to sing - but as populations grow, whales wail less, a new study released on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, suggests.

Population growth quiets whales

A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Port Stephens, Australia, on June 14, 2021. Lonely humpback whales are more likely to sing - but as populations grow, whales wail less, a new study released on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, suggests.

February 21, 2023, 6:03am Life

Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness. Read story

FILE - A school of fish swim above corals on Moore Reef in Gunggandji Sea Country off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. United Nations members gather Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity.

U.N. ocean treaty talks resume with goal to save biodiversity

FILE - A school of fish swim above corals on Moore Reef in Gunggandji Sea Country off the coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. United Nations members gather Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity.

February 19, 2023, 1:51pm Nation & World

United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity. Read story

A golden lion tamarin sits in a tree in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Friday, July 8, 2022. A campaign to vaccinate these endangered monkeys in Brazil against yellow fever may help save them from extinction.

Race to vaccinate rare wild monkeys gives hope for survival

A golden lion tamarin sits in a tree in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Friday, July 8, 2022. A campaign to vaccinate these endangered monkeys in Brazil against yellow fever may help save them from extinction.

February 19, 2023, 12:16pm Life

In a small lab nestled in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal’s belly. Read story

FILE - Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn't causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell's impacts, a new study says.

Study: Don’t blame climate change for South American drought

FILE - Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River, during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, on July 29, 2021. Climate change isn't causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell's impacts, a new study says.

February 19, 2023, 10:09am Latest News

Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. Read story

FILE - A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, reaffirmed the basis for a rule that requires "significant reductions" in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants, reversing a move late in former President Donald Trump's administration to roll back emissions standards.

EPA moves to restore rule on mercury from power plants

FILE - A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, reaffirmed the basis for a rule that requires "significant reductions" in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants, reversing a move late in former President Donald Trump's administration to roll back emissions standards.

February 17, 2023, 3:14pm Politics

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reaffirmed the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants, reversing a move late in former President Donald Trump's administration to roll back emissions standards. Read story

A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn't as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier.

Skinny robot documents forces eroding Doomsday Glacier

A robot nicknamed Icefin operates under the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in 2020. The pencil-shaped robot is giving scientists their first look at the forces eating away at the Thwaites glacier. Two studies published Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, show the rate of melting isn't as fast as feared, but fracturing is taking the heaviest toll on the glacier.

February 15, 2023, 2:39pm Nation & World

Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it’s both good and bad news. Read story

This image provided by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows the deck of Titanic 12,500 feet (3.8 kilometers) below the surface of the ocean, 400 miles (640 kilometers) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada in 1986. Rare and in some cases never before publicly seen video of the dive is being released on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Rare video of 1986 dive in Titanic wreckage to be released

This image provided by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows the deck of Titanic 12,500 feet (3.8 kilometers) below the surface of the ocean, 400 miles (640 kilometers) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada in 1986. Rare and in some cases never before publicly seen video of the dive is being released on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

February 15, 2023, 2:38pm Nation & World

Rare and in some cases never before publicly seen video of the 1986 dive through the wreckage of the Titanic is being released Wednesday by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read story

Lobster fishermen work at sunrise, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, off Kennebunkport, Maine. The waters off New England logged the second-warmest year in their recorded history in 2022, according to researchers. The Gulf of Maine, a body of water about the size of Indiana that touches Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Canada, is warming faster than the vast majority of the world's oceans. Scientists with Gulf of Maine Research Institute say 2022 fell short of setting a new high mark for hottest year in record by less than half a degree Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Robert F.

Waters off New England had 2nd warmest year on record in ‘22

Lobster fishermen work at sunrise, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, off Kennebunkport, Maine. The waters off New England logged the second-warmest year in their recorded history in 2022, according to researchers. The Gulf of Maine, a body of water about the size of Indiana that touches Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Canada, is warming faster than the vast majority of the world's oceans. Scientists with Gulf of Maine Research Institute say 2022 fell short of setting a new high mark for hottest year in record by less than half a degree Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Robert F.

February 15, 2023, 1:36pm Nation & World

The waters off New England, which are home to rare whales and most of the American lobster fishing industry, logged the second-warmest year on record last year. Read story

A man walks among the debris of collapsed buildings Thursday in Hatay, southern Turkey. The catastrophic earthquake last week killed more than 22,000 and left at least 5.3 million people homeless.

Several factors key in deadliness of quakes

A man walks among the debris of collapsed buildings Thursday in Hatay, southern Turkey. The catastrophic earthquake last week killed more than 22,000 and left at least 5.3 million people homeless.

February 14, 2023, 6:03am Life

The biggest earthquake to hit the U.S. since the 1960s was an 8.2 temblor near the Alaskan Peninsula on July 28, 2021. Read story

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The Science of Love: Complex brain chemistry plays role in attraction, commitment, scientist says

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February 14, 2023, 6:03am Life

In honor of Valentine’s Day, love seems to be everywhere, sewn onto teddy bears and piped onto heart-shaped cakes. Some people can fall in love at first sight, or, according to Netflix’s “Love is Blind,” without seeing each other at all. Read story