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Trash is turning into key power source for NJ (AP)

AP - Standing atop the 400-acre 1-E landfill, you get a panoramic view of the Meadowlands sports complex to the north and the New York City skyline to the east. You're also standing on a critical part of New Jersey's, and the nation's, energy...

Ancient Sea Predators Shed Skin Secrets (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Predatory reptiles called ichthyosaurs cruised the oceans between 230 million and 90 million years ago. In a classic case of convergent evolution, their body and fin shapes resembled those of today's dolphins, tunas, and great white sharks-the fastest swimmers in the sea.

British mountain race runners all accounted for (AP)

AP - Hundreds of mountain runners spent in the night in tents and hastily organized shelters after a long-distance race in England's Lake District was called off due to heavy rain and flooding, British authorities said Sunday.

AP INVESTIGATION: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids (AP)

AP - Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation...


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Death toll mounts in Yemen tropical storm (AP)

AP - Mohammed bin Gohar saw an old woman drowning in flood waters from a deadly tropical storm in southern Yemen, but couldn't save her. He was carrying his two kids and running with his wife to escape the...

Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F. James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara and Alec.

The Nation's Weather (AP)

AP - Saturday's weather was to be characterized by a strong trough of low pressure in the East and a ridge of high pressure in the...

Fierce storms in Yemen kill 47 (AFP)

AFP - Rescue operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 41 people and six more died after being struck by lightning in two days of fierce storms, officials...

Depressed astronauts might get computerized solace (AP)

AP - Your work is dangerous and your co-workers rely on you to stay alive. But you can never get far from those colleagues. You can't see your family for months, even years. The food isn't great. And forget stepping out for some fresh...

Appeals court to take up GOP effort in Indiana (AP)

AP - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected a effort by Republicans to shutter satellite early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago, but an appeals court later agreed to expedite the case and set oral arguments for five days before the general...

Russians, plus American tourist, return from space (AP)

AP - Soon after he touched down Friday, American space tourist Richard Garriott got a pat on the head and an admiring question from his astronaut father. "How come you look so fresh and ready to go?" 77-year-old Owen Garriott asked his son, who was sitting in an armchair on the steppes of Kazakhstan after being pulled from the gumdrop-shaped Soyuz...

2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists (AP)

AP - Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that's got scientists concerned about accelerated global...


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2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists (AP)

AP - Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that's got scientists concerned about accelerated global...