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The Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire, U.K., has just announced the birth of an endangered Western Lowland gorilla. Born to parents Ozala and Oumbi on January 3, the yet-to-be-named baby gender is still not known, because the mother is guarding it carefully. The BBC reports: The wildlife park said Ozala, who was born at Twycross in 1994, is a confident, attentive mother and is taking great care of her baby
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The UN latest Climate Change Conference recently concluded after two weeks of intense negotiations in Durban, South Africa. There going to be a new agreement to address climate change, but does that really mean anything Let break down what happened. Top image: Chukchi Sea Polar Bears by AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There no point in denying it 鈥?the Durban talks, otherwise known as COP17, didn ;t directly accomplish much at all, if anything. In fact, you could argue the talks represented a net loss for the world commitment to fighting climate change, as Canada announced it was withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, the current UN agreemen
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