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AP - NASA has posted a satellite image showing huge plumes of smoke billowing across northeastern North Korea.
AP - NASA has posted a satellite image showing huge plumes of smoke billowing across northeastern North Korea.
AFP - Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond...
Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The state of Alaska filed suit in federal court asking that the U.S. governmentâs designation of the polar bear as a threatened species because of climate change be overturned.
AFP - Multiple fires were raging in the northeast of North Korea recently, with a plume of smoke extending far out over the ocean, according to satellite photos seen...
AP - Pest-control specialist Gene Scholes even gets bugged by them — legions of ladybugs lately swarming his rural Missouri home and other stretches across the country, exploiting gaps in door and window seals for cozier climes inside.
AP - Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn't even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their...
Reuters - Fossils from the smallest dinosaur found in North America, a fleet-footed species only 28 inches long and weighing less than a rabbit, have gone on public display for the first time at a Los Angeles museum.
Reuters - Fossils from the smallest dinosaur found in North America, a fleet-footed species only 28 inches long and weighing less than a rabbit, have gone on public display for the first time at a Los Angeles museum.
SPACE.com - People across America will have a chance to gaze up at Jupiter and its four largest moons this weekend the same way Galileo did almost 400 years ago.
WEDNESDAY 21. OCTOBER 2009
AP - The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is joining the development of a research center in Aurora to promote commercial solar energy technologies.
AP - Utah lawmakers are getting competing views on climate change, one emphasizing the vast scientific consensus about warming trends and humanity's influence and another raising doubts about the root causes.
AP - Environmental activists who want West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to stop Massey Energy's blasting plans for the Coal River Mountain say the world is watching, and they plan to add pressure with a Google Earth tour created for a United Nations climate-change conference.
AP - Jillian Lung says she's no environmentalist. Still, she couldn't pass up a chance to install a carpet of solar panels atop her co-op in...
AP - A proposed West Virginia wind power project will harm a tiny, endangered bat and its developers should be should be required to obtain permits under the Endangered Species Act, attorneys for two environmental groups argued Wednesday in federal court.
AP - The nation's fourth-largest city, once dominated by Big Oil, is warming to greener options as it chooses a new mayor.
LiveScience.com - With the Fall marathon season in full swing, thousands of runners are gearing up for the big day. Just as important as their broken-in shoes and heart rate monitor is their source of motivation, inspiration and distraction: their tunes.
SPACE.com - NASA's first live tweet-up between the public and astronauts in space was cut short Wednesday by a false alarm on the International Space Station.
AP - The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators looked ahead to crucial climate talks in December.
Reuters - Nigeria's main militant group will consider reinstating a ceasefire in the oil-producing Niger Delta if the government is willing to begin serious peace talks, the group said on Wednesday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) lifted a three-month old ceasefire last week and threatened to resume its campaign of violence, which has kept OPEC member Nigeria from...
AP - Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.
AFP - Tropical storm Rick made landfall Wednesday in northwestern Mexico having lost its punch as a former top-strength hurricane, but still threatened the region with heavy rain and flash floods, US forecasters...
AFP - European environment ministers made tentative progress on Wednesday in moves to curb harmful carbon emissions, notably targeting planes and...
LiveScience.com - A mysterious increase in pollution deposits in recent years, despite reductions in the production of the pollutants, may have a solution. Alpine glaciers have been melting rapidly since the 1990s, and now scientists think pollution collected in the ice in decades past is flowing at an increased pace into lakes and rivers today. Previous research had documented increases...
AFP - Could climate change spark the first worldwide grassroots movement? Even as politicians dial down expectations for the December 7-18 UN climate talks in Copenhagen, analysts and activists detect a groundswell of anger, channelled through the Internet and voiced especially by the young, demanding action on global...
SPACE.com - The basic molecules required for life as we know it have been detected in a second hot gas planet beyond our solar system.