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		<title>Nature and lasting bond: stork journeys 2,500 miles visiting fisherman friend in Turkish village every year for 14 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) The Old Man and the Stork: An Unlikely Friendship That Captivated a Nation From Turkiye comes the story of an annual spring reunion that has captivated the hearts of a nation for 14 years. It involves a simple rural fisherman Adem Yilmaz, waiting in his boat for the return]]></description>
		
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		<title>Newfoundland: Joshua the Goat joins a half marathon, runs four kilometres, wins a medal and becomes international celebrity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 06:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) This goat hopped into a Newfoundland marathon — and won a medal Joshua the goat has become a star, says Mayor Darrin Bent As marathon runners made their way through winding forest pathways and residential roads on Newfoundland&#8217;s east coast on Sunday, they were joined by a four-legged competitor]]></description>
		
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		<title>Photos of beautiful feathered friends: Swinhoe on flower, Flycatcher mid-air snack, Elegant Terns strut about, Bald eagle aerial acrobatics, hummingbird on blossoming fruit tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Image courtesy Elizabeth Yicheng Shen and Audubon]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;If you can’t beat them, eat them&#8221; &#8211; restaurants turn invasive species into haute cuisine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) &#8220;If You Can’t Beat Them, Eat Them&#8221; A new kind of out-of-town visitor likes to check out the famous Brandenburg Tor in Berlin these days: Louisiana crawfish scuttles through the site when it rains. After business consultants Lukas and Juliane Bosch learned three years ago that they had become]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birding world all aflutter over accidental rare bird photo: first blue rock thrush sighting in US</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 06:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls. Sanchez, a 41-year-old middle-school band director from Vancouver,]]></description>
		
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		<title>2 billion birds migrate through Texas each Spring &#8211; Lights Out program keep buildings dark at night to keep birds safe from collisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Texas is globally important for birds. Approximately 1 of every 3 birds migrating through the U.S. in spring, and 1 of every 4 birds migrating through the U.S. in the fall, or nearly two billion birds, passes through Texas in one of the planet’s great wildlife spectacles. Majority of]]></description>
		
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		<title>World Nature Photography Awards 2024 winners: gannets fishing in Scotland, magical winter landscape in Iceland, owl-look-alike plant in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) A dramatic photo of two gannets fighting for a fish in the waters off Scotland’s Shetland Islands has won first prize at the World Nature Photography Awards. The image by Tracey Lund, from the United Kingdom, was selected from thousands of submissions to receive the $1,000 prize. “Thousands of]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chile: 100+ possibly new deep-sea species found in 1,800-mile-long underwater mountain range</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) An international team of scientists may have found more than 100 new species, during a mission to explore seamounts off the coast of Chile. These creatures who look like they come from a sci-fi novel call the 1,800-mile-long Salas y Gómez Ridge home. Seamounts are large underwater mountains that]]></description>
		
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		<title>Once hunted to near extinction, restored sea otters restore degraded coastline, cutting erosion by 90% by chowing down on crabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Sea Otters Returned to a Degraded Coastline Ate Enough Crabs to Restore Balance and Cut Erosion by 90% Against all odds, a distressed California coastal ecosystem is on the mend, in large part, thanks to the insatiable appetite sea otters have for crabs. In a groundbreaking study published this]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pregnant wild elephant &#8220;walked for days in pain before dying&#8221; in India after being fed explosive pineapple, sparks outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(quote) Indian wildlife officials are mourning the death of a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala, India, who reportedly died after being fed a firecracker-filled pineapple by an unknown assailant. “Her jaw was broken and she was unable to eat after she chewed the pineapple and it exploded in her mouth,”]]></description>
		
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