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With weather conditions deteriorating and darkness looming, rescuers are concluding their search Sunday for four overdue climbers and campers on Mount Rainier.

Seven long-finned pilot whales have died after being beached in New Zealand, and rescuers are fighting to save 18 more of the marine mammals.

Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend.

The Pitkin County Sheriff's Office says it will use a helicopter to try to recover the body of a 41-year-old Dillon man who died while hiking.

Wildlife rescue workers will try to find and rescue several ducks in the Santa Clara area that have been shot with blowgun darts.

Rescuers looking for a missing kayaker have discovered a body in the River Thames, according to an eyewitness.

A brown bear and her cub mauled a group of teenage boys deep in the Alaskan wilderness, forcing rescuers to scramble early Sunday to help the injured.

Two stranded pilot whales are tended to in shallow waters near Cudjoe Key, Fla., on Thursday.

Local police chief Jamil Ahmed said villagers and rescuers plucked 24 bodies from the River Meghna in Brahmanbaria and divers were looking for more.

A 61-year-old woman who got lost while hiking was reported in good condition Sunday after enduring a night of high winds and frigid temperatures on New Hampshire's Mount Jackson.