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By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Conservation organizations are looking for change. [More]
Read More »Stricken Ship off New Zealand Almost in Two
By Gyles Beckford WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Salvage teams raced on Friday to resume pumping oil from a stricken container ship which has almost split into two pieces off the New Zealand coast as businesses started to count the cost of the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. [More]
Read More »Mysterious Disease Killed Scores of Seals in Alaska
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious disease, possibly a virus, has afflicted ring seals along Alaska's coast, killing scores of them since July, local and federal agencies said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Songbirds Decline as Wyoming Oil and Gas Soars
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Key populations of songbirds are in decline in the sagebrush plains of southwestern Wyoming as oil and gas development there increases, a University of Wyoming scientist said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »iPhone 4S launch: What’s different this time?
By Josh Lowensohn The lineup for the iPhone 3GS in 2009. [More]
Read More »100,000-Year-Old Art Studio Discovered
A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because researchers have discovered a 100,000-year-old art studio
Read More »Indian Ocean Communities Test Tsunami Warning System
By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine After the first full-scale tsunami-warning exercise in the region, Indian Ocean nations say that they are finally ready to take control of a system set up in 2005.
Read More »Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant. [More]
Read More »Feel the Forces of a Suspension Bridge
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Read More »50 Years Ago: Is Bad Air Bad?
October 1961 Is Bad Air Bad? [More]
Read More »Deepwater to Build First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm
(Reuters) - Deepwater Wind is racing to build the first U.S.
Read More »U.S. to Impose Sanctions on BP, Gulf Spill Contractors
By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator on Wednesday formally issued sanctions against BP and the major contractors involved in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Read More »Hurricane Jova Hits Key Mexican Port, Kills Four
* Hurricane causes deathS and major flooding * Mexico's chief cargo port closed by storm [More]
Read More »Pluto Might Be the Largest Dwarf Planet, After All
Eris and its moon from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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