Good day, bad day: April 12, 2012

An app helps keep whales alive, while a study reveals that New York's rat poison is killing off the city's hawks — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle

A new app alerts biologists to the whereabouts of endangered whales, like the killer whale.
(Image credit: Thomas Kitchin & Victoria Hurst/First Light/Corbis)

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