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Today, President Obama spoke again about the country’s need for an all-of-the-above U.S. energy strategy.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - At least half the elephant population in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida reserve have been slaughtered because the west African nation sent too few security forces to tackle poachers, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Thursday. In what was described as one of the worst poaching massacres in decades, as many as 200 elephants have been killed for their tusks since January by poachers on horseback from Chad and Sudan. "WWF is disturbed by reports that the poaching continues unabated," Natasha Kofoworola Quist, WWF's representative in the region, said in a statement

Advances in delivering and storing electricity are crucial to the future of electric cars and otherwise reducing reliance on energy produced from burning fossil fuels. Yet a powerful means of running electronics that can charge and discharge quickly while also storing large amounts of energy has long eluded scientists

That is a main finding of a report , three years in the making, published Wednesday by a team of 12 scientists who study hormone-altering chemicals. [More]

The extreme weather, including a near-record number of tornadoes , in 2011 forced the debate of the impact of climate change on severe weather to resurface. [More]

“He caresses every bottle like it’s the first one he’s had, saying it ain’t love, but it ain’t bad.” - Ani DiFranco [More]

At the height of the drought that gripped the southeastern United States between 2005 and 2007, the water level of the massive reservoir that provides Atlanta's drinking water dropped 14 feet below normal.

Giant squid in ice; courtesy of Fir0002/Wikimedia Commons Giant and colossal squid can grow to be some 12 meters long . But that alone doesn’t explain why they have the biggest eyeballs on the planet. At 280 millimeters in diameter, colossal squid eyes are much bigger than those of the swordfish, which at 90 millimeters, measure in as the next biggest peepers.

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Who's been munching my galaxy? Right now, all across the planet, millions of people are engaged in a struggle with enormous implications for the very nature of life itself. Making sophisticated tactical decisions and wrestling with chilling and complex moral puzzles, they are quite literally deciding the fate of our existence.

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A little more than three years ago a medical team from Berlin published the results of a unique experiment that astonished HIV researchers. The German group had taken bone marrow--the source of the body’s immune cells--from an anonymous donor whose genetic inheritance made him or her naturally resistant to HIV.

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Our earliest invertebrate ancestors did not have brains. Yet, over hundreds of millions of years, we and other vertebrates have developed amazingly complicated mental machinery

By Richard Valdmanis and Simon Akam FREETOWN/DAKAR (Reuters) - On a recent mission pursuing pirate fishermen off Sierra Leone's coast, the head of the Fisheries Protection Unit found himself adrift on the high seas with six crew after their rented motorboat ran out of fuel. "We started rationing the food and water," Victor Kargbo said