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Seasonal ladybug swarms pester even bug experts (AP)

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.

Primate fossil called only a distant relative (AP)

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...


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World climate-change forum may touch on W.Va. mine (AP)

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.

Suit: Wind farm needs Endangered Species permits (AP)

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.

Music Benefits Exercise, Studies Show (LiveScience.com)

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.

UN: For 7th year, warming emissions grew again (AP)

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.

Nigerian rebels want peace talks before ceasefire (Reuters)

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...

Melting Glaciers Behind Mysterious Increase in Pollution (LiveScience.com)

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...

Climate change: Global issue spurs global protest (AFP)

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...