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‘Beginning of the end?’ No new babies for endangered whales

The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast, a reproductive drought unseen for three decades that experts say brings the rare species a perilous step closer to extinction."It's a pivotal moment for right whales," said Barb Zoodsma, who oversees the right whale recovery program in the U.S. Southeast for the National Marine Fisheries Service. "If we don't get serious and figure this out, [...]
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DEL STONE JR.: My car liked a taste of the real thing

Suddenly my car has begun getting better gas mileage, and while I’m not sure, I think it may be due to an experiment I tried a few weeks ago.I made the mistake of looking at the EPA figures for my car. In the city it’s a dismal 19 mpg, which comes as a shock because for years I thought it was 23 mpg. That 23 is the combined city/highway rating for the model with automatic transmission. Mine is a stick, which has a combined rating of 22 mpg (I thought stick shifts got [...]
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Recycled plastic path paves way on Navarre Beach

NAVARRE BEACH — Santa Rosa County has rolled out — literally — a new beach access pathway.County officials unveiled a new 100-foot Mobi-Mat on Friday afternoon at the kayak launch just east of the Sea Oat Pavilion in Navarre Beach Park. The mat, a 5-foot-wide pathway made of recycled plastic, is designed to provide easier access to the beach for people who use wheelchairs or walkers or have other mobility issues.The mat, which can be rolled up when not in [...]
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