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AP - The state's dominant electricity distributor would be forced to buy power from renewable energy producers under a deal struck Wednesday that could remove a major financial obstacle to building a windfarm off Rhode Island.
AP - The state's dominant electricity distributor would be forced to buy power from renewable energy producers under a deal struck Wednesday that could remove a major financial obstacle to building a windfarm off Rhode Island.
AP - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.
AP - Federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by developing plans for four national forests in California without adequately addressing the impact on endangered animals, a judge ruled.
AFP - The US petroleum industry accounted for a quarter of toxic pollutants recorded across North America in 2005 by a government-backed environmental watchdog, an annual report said on...
AP - The astronauts headed to the international space station include a Twittering skipper, a classically trained musician who named her son after one of Columbia's fallen astronauts, and a former Navy SEAL who went into Afghanistan two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
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SPACE.com - The International Space Station's Kibo laboratory is about to get a new porch, the last big piece of the outpost's already massive Japanese-built segment.
AP - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to reconsider its decision that denied wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act.
AP - The fledgling renewable energy industry has grown steadily over much of the past decade, adding jobs at more than twice the national rate, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released...
AFP - Peru's legislature on Wednesday temporarily suspended a decree easing restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest, sparking weekend clashes between indigenous people and police that claimed at least 35...
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON Six years ago, scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project, a historic effort to decipher each of the 3 billion letters in the genetic instruction book for our species. A single anonymous male from Buffalo, N.Y. code name RP11 provided the bulk of the DNA used for the project.
Reuters - U.S. motorists are again facing summer pain at the pump as rising crude oil prices drive up the cost of gasoline, forcing spending cuts elsewhere and threatening the fragile economic recovery.
AP - Global warming is uprooting people from their homes and, left unchecked, could lead to the greatest human migration in history, said a report released Wednesday.
AFP - The boss of British energy giant BP forecast on Wednesday that world oil prices would trade between 60-90 dollars per barrel in the coming...
AP - Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the U.N. climate chief as leaving the industrial world dangerously short of its pollution...
SPACE.com - Our solar system has a potentially violent future. New computer simulations reveal a slight chance that a disruption of planetary orbits could lead to a collision of Earth with Mercury, Mars or Venus in the next few billion years.
Reuters - Generic versions of expensive biotechnology drugs would reduce the amount of money spent on health care in the United States, a Federal Trade Commission report said on Thursday.
LiveScience.com - Forget fumbling with tiny cell phone keys. A prototype of a new application allows cell phone users to write short notes in the air and send them automatically to an e-mail address.
AP - House Republicans are calling for a hundred new nuclear power plants to be built in the next two decades as part of legislation they say is a better alternative than one championed by Democrats.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 10 (OneWorld.net) - After a decade of legal battles and pressure from activists, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company -- accused of human rights abuses in the oil-rich Niger Delta -- has agreed to pay a settlement to the communities in the region rather than face trial.
AFP - The UN's top climate official on Wednesday voiced doubt about the prospects for completing a new pact on global warming in Copenhagen by its much-touted December...
SPACE.com - The Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya has completed its main mission. But there's one final scientific endeavor: It will slam into lunar surface at about 2:30 p.m. ET (18:30 UT) today. The impact is expected to occur on the near-side of the Moon, in the dark area close to the limb, at lunar coordinates 80°E and 64°S, said European astronomers, who have mapped out the expected impact...
LiveScience.com - Our large brains may make us cognitively superior to chimps, but, according to a new hypothesis, we could be paying a price for our sizable cerebrum: a higher rate of cancer. Chimpanzees are thought to be the closest evolutionary relative to humans, and we share around 98 percent of our genes with these primates. But for years, scientists have observed that chimps have a...
Reuters - Climate change has contributed to a flattening of the complex, multi-layered architecture of Caribbean coral reefs, compromising their role as a nursery for fish stocks and a buffer against tropical storms, a study...
AP - NASA is counting down toward the weekend launch of space shuttle Endeavour.
LiveScience.com - A new moth that is hardly dull has been discovered in the Chiricahua Mountains, east of Tucson, Arizona. The moth has pink wings.