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This hour we're tackling three topics, strap in! A failed bill from the 1900s that proposed hippopotamus ranching in the U.S., an initiative to save humanity by storing poop in a vault, and a pod of orcas teaching each other to sink boats.
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The musical runs May 4-6 at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts Theater in Middletown.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who’ve found - and gotten BACK - their messages in bottles. Plus, hear the story of a bottle thrown from the Titanic.
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The scientific nonprofit that tracks the white shark population in Cape Cod waters identified 55 new individual sharks during its most recent research season, but experts say that’s no reason to be afraid of going in the water this summer.
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The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New England could soon become stricter, potentially bringing big changes to one of the most valuable seafood industries in the country.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who’ve found - and gotten BACK - their messages in bottles. Plus, hear the story of a bottle thrown from the Titanic.
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A severely entangled right whale was spotted 15 miles south of Nantucket on Wednesday by researchers from the New England Aquarium. The 17-year-old whale known as Snow Cone was carrying fishing gear from a new entanglement, along with gear from an earlier incident.
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A shark expert said the likely culprits behind the Long Island incidents are juvenile sand tiger sharks, which may accidentally bite humans while chasing fish.
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Invasive green crabs are destroying marine ecosystems in the United States. A New Hampshire distillery is making crab-flavored whiskey to take them on.
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A federal judge ruled Friday that federal fisheries regulators are violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to adequately protect North Atlantic right whales from potentially deadly entanglements in fishing gear, including the rope used by Maine's lobster fleet.