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LiveScience.com - Call it Mother Earth if you like, but "Little Brother" might be a more appropriate nickname for our messy, squirmy and unpredictable planet.
LiveScience.com - Call it Mother Earth if you like, but "Little Brother" might be a more appropriate nickname for our messy, squirmy and unpredictable planet.
AP - The "nightmare well" is dead. But the Gulf coast's bad dream is far from...
LiveScience.com - Four cubs recently born to African lioness Shera at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., appear to be female, zookeepers announced today.
Reuters - Hurricane Igor buffeted Bermuda with hurricane-force wind gusts, large waves and driving rain on Sunday as it bore down on the Atlantic island chain, which braced for a direct hit from one of the worst hurricanes to menace...
SPACE.com - Astronauts flying to Mars or beyond may be able to grow their own veggies during the long trip using new technology tested in the Arizona desert.
AFP - South Africa produces too much maize. Its neighbours not enough. But rather than feeding its neighbours, South Africa's surplus maize may feed Chinese chickens, due to regional worries about genetically modified...
LiveScience.com - Jennie the German shepherd-heeler mix had always been an agile dog. So when Maribeth Ashley, the owner of the 6-year-old rescue dog, noticed that Jennie was having trouble getting in and out of the car for trips to the park, she was worried. Then Ashley noticed that her other dog, Pickles, also a 6-year-old shepherd mix, needed help jumping into the car, too.
Reuters - BP Plc will conduct a pressure test on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Saturday to make sure that cement pumped into the bottom killed it for good, the company...
Reuters - A typhoon injured 45 people, canceled flights and cut power to tens of thousands in Taiwan on Sunday, keeping officials on high alert to stop any repeat of a deadly storm last year that damaged the president's reputation.
AFP - A weakening Hurricane Igor bore down on Bermuda Sunday, bringing with it gale force winds and torrential rains as another storm, Karl, lashed Mexico and killed three...
AP - An American-born panda gave birth to her eighth cub in southwest China, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor...
AP - The impending death of BP's blown-out oil well will bring one piece of the catastrophe that began five months ago to an anticlimactic end — after all, the gusher was capped in...
AP - This summer's floods in Pakistan have reopened a quarter-century-old debate on whether to build a large hydroelectric dam on the River Indus, a dispute that has split the nation along regional lines. Supporters say the water reservoir could have prevented much of the floods' devastation and boosted agricultural production along the river. Opponents say just the...
LiveScience.com - Parasitic worms may possess warrior castes just as social insects do - fearsome soldiers that rip and swallow enemies with their mouths to protect their colonies.
Reuters - BP Plc will conduct a pressure test on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Saturday to make sure that cement pumped into the bottom killed it for good, the company said.
SATURDAY 18. SEPTEMBER 2010
AFP - Tens of thousands demonstrated in Berlin Saturday against the government's proposal to extend the life of Germany's nuclear power plants for another decade or...
AP - Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin to protest their government's recent decision to extend the life of the nation's nuclear power plants by about 12 years.
Reuters - California utility regulators asked Pacific Gas & Electric Co to provide a list of potential weak spots in the company's natural gas network, a week after a gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb killed four people.
Reuters - Hurricane Igor churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward Bermuda on Saturday packing powerful winds and heavy rains as island residents stocked up on supplies and worked to secure their...
AP - This summer's floods in Pakistan have reopened a quarter-century-old debate on whether to build a large hydroelectric dam on the River Indus, a dispute that has split the nation along regional lines. Supporters say the water reservoir could have prevented much of the floods' devastation and boosted agricultural production along the river. Opponents say just the...
AFP - Hurricane Igor bore down on Bermuda on Saturday, with winds of 110 miles (175 kilometers) per hour expected to produce a dangerous storm surge and flooding in coastal areas, forecasters...
SPACE.com - NEW YORK NASA needs to evolve for the future, not get stuck in the past, the agency's deputy chief said this week.
SPACE.com - A big, hot alien planet with almost no methane in its atmosphere continues to stump astronomers, who have long thought the gas was a common feature of such worlds.
LiveScience.com - Medellin, Colombia-Now that Americans finally have come to understand the importance of a healthy school lunch, attention can turn to the next logical step: healthy workplace lunches.
AFP - Egypt's plan to build four nuclear powerplants by 2025 underscores the emerging interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, where even oil-rich nations such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are eyeing fossil fuel alternatives to satisfy growing...