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Record earthquake hits Russian Kamchatka peninsula

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has been struck by the region's biggest earthquake in more than a century.

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Polar bears and hippos are among more than 16,000 species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction, the World Conservation Union said Tuesday.

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The Danube threatened to spill over soaked anti-flood defenses in Serbia's capital and wash through towns across southeastern Europe on Sunday after heavy rains helped push it to its highest levels in a century.

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Scientists have reported an unprecedented number of unaccompanied and possibly abandoned walrus calves in the Arctic Ocean, where melting sea ice may be forcing mothers to abandon their pups as the mothers follow the rapidly retreating ice edge north.

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Scientist have made a new fascinating discovery related to the fauna hidden within the depths of the sea worms which dwell at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and, given the choice, prefer to live in places where temperatures reach 45-55 degrees Celsius (113-131 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest thermal preference of any animal studied until now.

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The eel catfish, Channallabes apus, is found in the muddy swamps of the tropics of western Africa.

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Mount Everest and the Himalaya mountain range conjure images of yaks and Sherpas loaded with heavy packs. But tucked into the cold shadows of the world's tallest mountain are biologically diverse hotspots filled with poorly known plants and animals found nowhere else on the globe.

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