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Deal reached to phase out greenhouse gas
(AP)
AP - Governments of almost 200 countries have agreed to speed the elimination of a major greenhouse gas that depletes ozone, U.N. and Canadian officials said Saturday, describing a deal they said was a significant step toward fighting global...
Beaked whales focus of Navy sonar study
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AP - Robin Baird's research team members stare at the horizon for hours, searching for rarely seen beaked...
The Nation's Weather
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AP - The skies mostly cleared out Sunday along the West Coast, pushing rain and some snow to the...
Repaired U.S. space shuttle moved from hangar
(Reuters)
Reuters - Space shuttle Discovery
was rolled out from its processing hangar on Sunday, as NASA
moved to keep to a tight schedule for Discovery's launch on a
milestone International Space Station construction mission next...
SUNDAY 23. SEPTEMBER 2007
Man dies months after Kansas tornado hit
(AP)
AP - A man who was struck by debris and suffered brain damage when a tornado destroyed this town in May has died, making him the 12th victim of the storm, his family said.
Scientists hopeful despite climate signs
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AP - Climate scientist Michael Mann runs down the list of bad global warming news: The world is spewing greenhouse gases at a faster rate. Summer Arctic sea ice is at record lows. The ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are melting quicker than...
U.N. summit to push climate talks
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AP - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore and the leaders of some 80 nations converge on the U.N. on Monday for a summit on the warming Earth and what to do about...
Tropical depression nears Mexico
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AP - Ivo was downgraded from a tropical storm to a depression early Sunday, the National Hurricane Center...
The Nation's Weather
(AP)
AP - Low pressure moving through the West was expected to bring considerable rain from the Southwest to the Intermountain West on Sunday, while showers and thunderstorms were forecast for the Gulf...
China to build new satellite launch site
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AP - China is planning to build a new satellite launch site the country's fourth to boost its burgeoning space program, state media reported Sunday.
Rising seas likely to flood U.S. history
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AP - Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are...
Deal will speed cuts in greenhouse gas
(AP)
AP - Governments of almost 200 countries have agreed to speed the elimination of a major greenhouse gas that depletes ozone, U.N. and Canadian officials said Saturday, describing a deal they said was a significant step toward fighting global warming.
Deal will speed cuts in greenhouse gas
(AP)
AP - Governments of almost 200 countries have agreed to speed the elimination of a major greenhouse gas that depletes ozone, U.N. and Canadian officials said Saturday, describing a deal they said was a significant step toward fighting global warming.
SATURDAY 22. SEPTEMBER 2007
Rising seas likely to flood U.S. history
(AP)
AP - Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are...
Floods plunge Uganda displaced in further misery
(AFP)
AFP - Ongoro is usually one the driest parts of Uganda and Francis Egoliam was sure the rains would stop. But now his house has been swept away by floods and his camp has disappeared under...
U.N. climate chief urges U.S. action
(AP)
AP - The Bush administration has made a "significant" shift on global warming, but still falls short on the "much more aggressive" policies needed to head off its damaging impact, the U.N. climate chief said...
Federal report shows sea turtle declines
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AP - After encouraging gains in the 1990s, populations of loggerhead sea turtles are now dropping, primarily because of commercial fishing, according to a federal...
Global space summit looks to the future, 50 years after Sputnik-1
(AFP)
AFP - Fifty years after the launch of the first man-made satellite, the global space industry gathers in India next week to find ways to benefit humanity -- and make money in the...
U.S. officials ask Turkey to seek energy alternatives
(Reuters)
Reuters - United States officials fresh from a
regional energy conference said on Saturday Turkish plans to
produce natural gas in Iran should be replaced with projects
with other regional suppliers Turkmenistan and...
The Nation's Weather
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AP - A tropical depression made landfall along the Florida Panhandle Friday night, bringing rain and winds up to 35 mph.
NASA probe may have found Martian caves
(AFP)
AFP - A NASA spacecraft found seven possible cave entrances on Mars, triggering interest in hunting for other caverns that might be hiding life on the Red Planet, the US space agency said...
Scientists: Hobbit wasn't a modern human
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AP - Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
Study: Catalina bison aren't purebred
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AP - Long thought to be purebred, the wild bison of Santa Catalina Island in fact have a little bit of cow in them, the first DNA analysis of the animals found. Nearly half of the 98 American bison shipped off the island in 2004 have cattle genes that were passed on through the mother. Catalina bison were believed to be purer than those on the mainland because they lived in isolation on the island...