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On paper it looks like good news for a population that has had little of it. NOAA's new estimate lands at about 17,750 gray whales, with a range of roughly 15,930 to 20,530, well above last year's…
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, the oceans nearly emptied. The Permian-Triassic extinction (geologists call it the Great Dying, and the name is not hyperbole) erased something like 96…
The lesions were the easy part. For more than a decade, biologists had watched brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memphremagog turn up with patches of blackened, malignant skin; by 2014, nearly one in…