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By James Mitchell Crow of Nature magazine The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica is starting to heal, say researchers in Australia. [More]

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After seven hours of dragging a metal trawl in the ocean, we pulled the manta ray-looking contraption on board--salt water splashing everywhere--to see what was inside. We reached into the slimy net, flipped it inside out and dumped the contents onto a mesh screen.

Sarasa Satish is a waste picker. Every morning, she starts promptly at 8:30 a.m. going door to door, collecting throwaway materials from houses in the Rajendra Nagar slums of Bangalore, India

By Mari Saito and Kevin Krolicki TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - The magnitude 9 earthquake that [More]

By Kathy Finn AMELIA, Louisiana (Reuters) - A day after Army engineers opened a key spillway to relieve flooding along the Mississippi River, residents of small Louisiana towns braced on Sunday for a surge of water that could leave thousands of homes and farms under as much as 20 feet of water. [More]

Editor's note: Updated at 12:15 P.M. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--The space shuttle Endeavour took off on its final flight Monday morning at 8:56 A.M. Eastern time

Red-eyed periodic cicadas emerge every 13 or 17 years, but finding out why could take millennia In ""Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people. This feature aims to look at the impossible dreams, the seemingly intractable problems in science

DHAKA (Reuters) - Solar power is in place in nearly a million homes in rural Bangladesh, which is drastically short of electricity, the World Bank said on Monday. "More than 870,000 homes and shops in remote rural areas have installed solar home systems with support from the World Bank and other development partners," the global lender said in a statement. [More]

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Many people are working to harness renewable energy sources more effectively and to enhance energy efficiency. All good. Most of the efforts will probably result in welcomed but incremental improvements, however.

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* Alon workers building levee at 80,000 bpd refinery * Spillway opening reduces flooding risk for 8 refineries [More]