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A Battle Over Wind and Whales Is Brewing in New Jersey
Several New Jersey environmental groups are defending offshore wind development after seven dead humpback and sperm whales washed up along New York and New Jersey coasts in the past month.
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Dugongs, Beloved Vegetarian ‘Mermaids,’ Declared Extinct Near China
Pour one out for the dugong today — the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammal has hit a worrying new benchmark of species decline. Scientists have declared the animal “functionally extinct” in part of the South China Sea, in a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Hunting, the fishing industry, aquaculture, and other…