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DURBAN, South Africa--My share of the carbon dioxide my flight to Johannesburg emitted over 15 hours amounted to 1,391.3 kilograms, according to the helpful information provided by South African Airlines. Add a dollop of 53.8 kilograms of CO2 for the jet jaunt to Durban and you can see that the aviation industry--and the Durban climate talks --have an emissions problem.

The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson and the Center for Snake Conservation in Louisville, Colo., have put up a $500 reward for evidence that the South Florida rainbow snake ( Farancia erytrogramma seminola ) is not extinct, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared in October [pdf].

* Three killed in South Carolina - report * Possible tornadoes in Louisiana [More]

Effective spring 2012, the minimum drinking age for all alcoholic beverages on Royal Caribbean ships sailing from South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and New Zealand will be 18.

At first glance the mammoth screen running down a former parking ramp at Lincoln Center looks like something on loan from Times Square, about a dozen blocks to the south.

Michelle Obama will lead hundreds of children in an event on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

For a guy who grew up in the South, the happiest times for William McGirt are coming to Boston.

By Selam Gebrekidan and David Sheppard NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City braced for widespread blackouts as Hurricane Irene churned up the East Coast on Saturday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power in coastal states further south. [More]

Every year, 50-100 million people are infected with the dengue fever virus, which is transmitted to humans through the bites of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, mainly in South East Asia and South America.

Using new satellite data, scientists have plotted exactly how the ice moves around the South Pole, shining new light on exactly how much water is going to flood into the ocean as the ice melts. Antarctica is not just a solid block of ice. It's a living, moving area, where floes slide against each other

Medicaid program won't cover cost of surgery and chemo for 26-year-old South Carolina man because of "glitch" in law, program spokesman says

STOCKHOLM (AP) -Swedish amateur golfer Robert Karlsson was on top on the leaderboard with countryman Alexander Noren and Jaco Van Zyl of South Africa after they shot 5-under 67s in Thursday's first round of the Nordea Masters.

Iceland is known as the "land of ice and fire," but new findings suggest that the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean could easily take over that title. In addition to the seven volcanic islands that make up this Antarctic archipelago, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recently discovered that 12 volcanoes lurk below the water's surface. [More]

Hundreds of physicists from around the world are making plans to shoot the world's most intense beam of neutrinos from Illinois, underground through Iowa, all the way to a former gold mine in South Dakota. And Iowa State University's Mayly Sanchez is part of the research team.