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AFP - Indonesia and Australia announced on Tuesday a multi-million dollar initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation on the Indonesian island of...
AFP - Indonesia and Australia announced on Tuesday a multi-million dollar initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation on the Indonesian island of...
AP - In the coming months and years, scientists will pore over reams of data from what turned out to be the minuscule tsunami that reached Hawaii on Saturday.
Reuters - Chilean authorities extended a curfew in the country's second-biggest city on Tuesday as troops struggled to contain worsening looting and crime in the wake of a devastating...
AFP - Japan will push for a resumption of commercial whaling, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu said ahead of an International Whaling Commission meeting on...
AFP - The main players in the feud over whaling gather Tuesday to decide whether to embrace a compromise that would permit outright hunting of the whales but seek to reduce the...
File/Peter Parks)" border="0" />AFP - A British climate researcher at the centre of a row over global warming science has admitted he wrote some "pretty awful" emails to sceptics when he was refusing their requests for...
AFP - It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop's producers...
AFP - A US radar launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon's north pole, NASA scientists said...
LiveScience.com - The last thing hatchling dinosaurs might have seen were giant snakes, researchers say.
LiveScience.com - Dogs are possibly the most varied-looking mammal species on the planet. It's this diversity of looks that make man's best friend the perfect laboratory for connecting sets of genes to particular traits and understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern variation in dogs as well as humans and other mammals.
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- The rise in temperatures associated with climate change might have an unexpected consequence: more allergies among more people.
SPACE.com - Vast pockets of water ice numbering in the millions of tons have been discovered at the north pole of the moon, opening up another region of the lunar surface for potential exploration by astronauts and unmanned probes, NASA announced Monday.
LiveScience.com - Dirty air could hinder the performance of women in marathons, a new study finds.
MONDAY 1. MARCH 2010
Reuters - Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd, a solar equipment maker that recently relocated to Toronto from Calgary, may soon land its first large-scale orders in its new home province, the world's newest "go-to" region for solar power.
AP - Academics at a British climate research center at the center of a controversy about the science of global warming defended their work during cross-examination at Parliament on Monday, rejecting allegations that they manipulated climate data.
AP - Gunmen kidnapped three sports journalists Monday working for an African satellite channel in the oil-rich and restive Niger Delta, a region that has seen a lull in violence because of a government amnesty program, a colleague said.
AP - Tweets and other forms of social networking helped create a relatively smooth evacuation of as many as 50,000 people on Oahu as a tsunami raced toward Hawaii.
LiveScience.com - When teens spend too much time on the computer or in front of the TV, their relationships suffer, a new study suggests. The results show that the more "screen time" teens clock, the more likely they are to have difficulty forming a relationship with their parents and friends.
AP - When it comes to bears, the polar species seems to be the new kid on the block. A rare fossil jaw found in Norway's Svalbard archipelago is helping researchers confirm that polar bears evolved from brown bears only about 150,000 years ago.
LiveScience.com - The Internet has turned daily news into a social experience and has become a more popular way for Americans to get news than the local newspaper or news radio, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life project.
SPACE.com - Hypersonic space planes may someday fly into space from airport runways, but an Italian aerospace firm first wants to test whether such futuristic vehicles could still pull off high-speed maneuvers during the fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
LiveScience.com - DNA from a polar bear jawbone has revealed the Arctic species first originated about 150,000 years ago, scientists announced today.
AP - USEC said Monday that its fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled, helped by the settlement of a trade dispute over imported enriched uranium used at U.S. nuclear power plants.
Reuters - Sneezing, congestion, and runny noses from hay fever may be lasting longer because climate change may be extending pollen seasons, doctors in Italy said on Monday.
AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she is bringing satellite telephones to quake-stricken Chile as the government in Santiago appealed for the first time for international...