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Former President Donald Trump said recently that "windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before."(Illustration by The Epoch Times)His comments, made at a campaign rally in South Carolina, were quickly ground through the fact-checking mills of legacy media outlets such as The Guardian and the BBC."They’re washing up ashore. I saw it this weekend, three of them came up. You wouldn’t see it once a year. Now they’re coming up on a weekly basis," President Trump said.The Guardian called his allegation a "lengthy and largely baseless attack on wind turbines for causing large numbers of whales to...

An asteroid worth a potential £3.5 trillion ($5.4 trillion) is due to pass by Earth on Sunday, and you can watch it live from 11pm UK time (6.30pm ET). Asteroid 2011 UW-158's fly-by will be streamed live on the internet from an observatory in the Canary Islands. The space rock has attracted the attention of asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, because it is thought to have a 100 million ton core of platinum that the company might one day want to exploit. Asteroid 2011 UW-158 will pass within 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) from Earth on Sunday - 30...

Alaska's commercial fishing fleet is joining an effort to save the world's most endangered whales. Until recently, it was believed that the North Pacific right whale was headed toward certain extinction, but more animals than expected were found last summer in the Bering Sea, lending hope that they can be saved. Even so, there are likely fewer than 100 North Pacific right whales. The animals share the Bering Sea with the largest commercial fishery in the United States. Now the Marine Conservation Alliance -- a coalition of commercial fishermen, seafood processors and coastal communities -- is working with the National...

For the endangered North Atlantic right whale, these are trying times. These leviathans who live and migrate in waters along the East Coast of North America teeter closer to the brink of extinction than perhaps any other whale species. Their population is tiny - less than 350 - and continues to shrink. By some estimates, if current population trends hold, the species will vanish within the next 200 years. Yet for scientists and conservationists anxious about the future of these creatures, rays of hope are beginning to pierce an otherwise gloomy horizon. Thanks to a surge of scientific research and...

SAINT JOHN, NB (CNW) - Industry and wildlife organizations that have worked with Canadian officials for the last three years on a plan to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from ship collisions applauded Transport Canada's proposal to move commercial shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy. North Atlantic right whales are the world's most endangered great whales, with only around 350 individuals remaining. Up to two-thirds of them gather in the Bay of Fundy each summer, where a major shipping channel passes through the whales' summer feeding grounds. Transport Canada, the government agency that regulates shipping, submitted a proposal...