Friday, July 30th, 2010
By
NINIEK KARMINI
2010-07-30T06:40:34Z
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The most threatened tortoise in the world is being sold openly at a plant and animal exposition in the heart of Indonesia's capital, highlighting concerns about the rampant - and growing - illegal pet trade....
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-07-28T18:24:12Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation....
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-07-28T18:24:12Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation....
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-28T17:01:21Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide....
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-28T17:01:21Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide....
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
By
ROBERT WIELAARD
2010-07-28T07:49:06Z
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- ArcelorMittal SA, the world's biggest steelmaker, said Wednesday that a jump in sales and prices helped it generate net income of $1.7 billion in the second quarter, up from a loss a year earlier, and that it intends to sell its stainless steel unit....
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
By
STEVE SZKOTAK
2010-07-27T16:28:49Z
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will "virtually raise the Titanic" for the public....
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
By
STEVE SZKOTAK
2010-07-27T16:28:49Z
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will "virtually raise the Titanic" for the public....
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
By
STEVE SZKOTAK
2010-07-27T16:28:49Z
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will "virtually raise the Titanic" for the public....
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
By
EMMA VANDORE
2010-07-26T14:26:32Z
PARIS (AP) -- Scientists behind the European particle collider aimed at uncovering the secrets of the universe pushed Monday to build an even bigger machine - with money and partners from around the world....
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
By
BOB SALSBERG
2010-07-25T19:39:30Z
LENOX, Mass. (AP) -- Once a dumping ground for chemicals, a stretch of the Housatonic River that winds near this Berkshires hamlet is being scoured in a lengthy, expensive cleanup. Now, dredging other parts of the riverbed is under consideration, but the fishers, bird watchers and swimmers who would benefit are wondering how much effort is too much....
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
By
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-24T17:36:24Z
HOUSTON (AP) -- Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern Gulf, BP will have cleaned up its goopy mess....
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
By
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-24T17:36:24Z
HOUSTON (AP) -- Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern Gulf, BP will have cleaned up its goopy mess....
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
By
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-24T17:36:24Z
HOUSTON (AP) -- Federal biologists are releasing thousands of endangered baby sea turtles into the western Gulf of Mexico, betting that by the time the silver dollar-sized swimmers make it to the oil-fouled waters of the eastern Gulf, BP will have cleaned up its goopy mess....
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
By
MARK STEVENSON
2010-07-23T21:25:14Z
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say....
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
By
MARC LEVY
2010-07-23T03:54:37Z
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- People who make a living from a natural gas drilling technique that involves pumping chemical-laced water into the earth and others who believe it has poisoned them or their well water packed into a hotel ballroom in southwestern Pennsylvania on Thursday night to make an impression on federal researchers....
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
By
RAPHAEL G. SATTER
2010-07-22T19:16:47Z
LONDON (AP) -- Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument....
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
By
STAN LEHMAN
2010-07-22T07:08:13Z
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still investigating what's causing them to die....
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
By
RAPHAEL G. SATTER
2010-07-21T19:20:51Z
LONDON (AP) -- A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time....
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
By
RAPHAEL G. SATTER
2010-07-21T11:56:59Z
LONDON (AP) -- A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time....
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
By
KRISHAN FRANCIS
2010-07-19T19:35:51Z
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A nocturnal, forest-dwelling primate with orb-like eyes and short limbs was photographed in central Sri Lanka late last year after being feared extinct, researchers said Monday....
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
By
KRISHAN FRANCIS
2010-07-19T19:35:51Z
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A nocturnal, forest-dwelling primate with orb-like eyes and short limbs was photographed in central Sri Lanka late last year after being feared extinct, researchers said Monday....
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
By
KRISHAN FRANCIS
2010-07-19T19:35:51Z
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A nocturnal, forest-dwelling primate with orb-like eyes and short limbs was photographed in central Sri Lanka late last year after being feared extinct, researchers said Monday....
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
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2010-07-18T23:58:09Z
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Scientists will be using laser beams, computer software and airplanes to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline....
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
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2010-07-18T23:58:09Z
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Scientists will be using laser beams, computer software and airplanes to piece together what they say will be the most detailed map ever assembled of the California coastline....
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
By
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-07-18T18:07:38Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One day your annual flu shot could come in the mail....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
By
RAFAEL MESQUITA
2010-07-16T16:00:58Z
PARIS (AP) -- After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France....
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
By
BRIAN SKOLOFF
2010-07-15T22:59:49Z
The first group of sea turtles that are part of a sweeping effort to save threatened and endangered hatchlings from death in the oily Gulf of Mexico have been released into the Atlantic Ocean....
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
By
MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-14T13:04:25Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment....
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
By
MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-14T13:04:25Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment....
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
By
MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-14T13:04:25Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment....
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
By
MATTHEW BROWN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
2010-07-14T13:04:25Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment....
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
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2010-07-14T05:16:52Z
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Scientists say a rare species of dark purple jellyfish is showing up in San Diego Bay and washing ashore on beaches....
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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2010-07-12T22:04:35Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem....
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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2010-07-12T22:04:35Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem....
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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2010-07-12T22:04:35Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem....
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
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2010-07-12T20:22:20Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem....
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-11T17:37:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed....
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-11T17:37:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed....
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-11T17:37:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed....
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
By
SETH BORENSTEIN
2010-07-11T17:37:13Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed....
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
By
VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN
2010-07-10T22:06:53Z
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Space Agency has taken the closest look yet at asteroid Lutetia in an extraordinary quest some 280 million miles in outer space between Mars and Jupiter....
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
By
VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN
2010-07-10T22:06:53Z
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Space Agency has taken the closest look yet at asteroid Lutetia in an extraordinary quest some 280 million miles in outer space between Mars and Jupiter....
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
By
VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN
2010-07-10T22:06:53Z
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Space Agency has taken the closest look yet at asteroid Lutetia in an extraordinary quest some 280 million miles in outer space between Mars and Jupiter....
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
By
BRIAN SKOLOFF
2010-07-10T11:47:35Z
APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Shrimp, grouper, tuna and other seafood snatched from the fringes of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat, according to a federal agency inspecting the catch....
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
By
BRIAN SKOLOFF
2010-07-10T11:47:35Z
APALACHICOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Shrimp, grouper, tuna and other seafood snatched from the fringes of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat, according to a federal agency inspecting the catch....
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
By
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
2010-07-09T17:27:15Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warm, wet and windy! That was June, depending on where you lived in the United States....
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
By
ALICIA CHANG
2010-07-09T16:23:31Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A total eclipse of the sun occurs Sunday, but don't be so quick to take out your special viewing glasses....
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
By
ALICIA CHANG
2010-07-09T10:05:50Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A total eclipse of the sun occurs Sunday, but don't be so quick to take out your special viewing glasses....
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
By
ELIANE ENGELER
2010-07-08T16:37:00Z
PAYERNE, Switzerland (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane completed its first 24-hour test flight successfully Thursday, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night....
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
By
ELIANE ENGELER
2010-07-08T09:01:21Z
PAYERNE, Switzerland (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night....
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
By
ERIC TALMADGE
2010-07-08T03:01:25Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese scientists say they have detected tiny particles collected by the first spacecraft to return to Earth after landing on an asteroid. But determining if the dust came from the asteroid or was picked up by the spacecraft on its return trip could take months....
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
By
ELIANE ENGELER and FRANK JORDANS
2010-07-07T20:17:37Z
GENEVA (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane whose Swiss makers hope someday to fly around the globe soared into uncharted territory Wednesday - the cold, dark night....
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
By
ELIANE ENGELER and FRANK JORDANS
2010-07-07T16:36:47Z
GENEVA (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane took off from western Switzerland on Wednesday for a 24-hour test flight - a key step in a historic effort to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun....
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
By
FRANK JORDANS
2010-07-07T09:15:51Z
GENEVA (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane whose makers hope to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun took off for its first 24-hour test flight Wednesday....
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
By
MATTHEW DALY
2010-07-06T20:24:47Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing new rules to tighten restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants in the eastern half of the country, a key step to cut emissions that cause smog....
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
By
ARTHUR MAX
2010-07-06T01:48:12Z
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful....
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
By
ARTHUR MAX
2010-07-06T01:48:12Z
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful....
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
By
ARTHUR MAX
2010-07-05T20:12:53Z
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful....
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
By
JULIA ZAPPEI
2010-07-05T07:29:47Z
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Conservationists criticized a plan Monday to build a coal-fired power plant in an environmentally fragile state on Borneo island, but energy officials said the project will provide a much-needed electricity supply boost....
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
By
DAN ELLIOTT
2010-07-03T16:29:14Z
DENVER (AP) -- A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth....
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
By
DAN ELLIOTT
2010-07-03T16:29:14Z
DENVER (AP) -- A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth....
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
By
DAN ELLIOTT
2010-07-03T16:29:14Z
DENVER (AP) -- A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth....
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
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2010-07-03T05:29:12Z
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) -- Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago....
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
By
JIM HEINTZ
2010-07-02T19:51:17Z
MOSCOW (AP) -- An unmanned Russian space capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station failed in a docking attempt, Russian Mission Control and NASA said Friday....
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
By
JIM HEINTZ
2010-07-02T18:31:48Z
MOSCOW (AP) -- An unmanned Russian space capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station failed in a docking attempt, Russian Mission Control and NASA said Friday....
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
By
ALESSANDRA RIZZO
2010-07-01T18:02:05Z
ROME (AP) -- A U.N. climate summit in Mexico later this year won't broker a global accord on climate change, but may represent a positive intermediate step, the Italian environment minister said Thursday after co-hosting climate change talks....
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
By
ROBIN McDOWELL
2010-07-01T07:49:33Z
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier in the Pacific. He's worried he got there too late....
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
By
BRIAN SKOLOFF
2010-06-30T21:41:41Z
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- An effort to scoop thousands of turtle eggs from their nests to save them from death in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing....
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
By
BARRY HATTON
2010-06-30T13:18:14Z
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- The Portuguese government used its special voting rights Wednesday to block Telefonica's euro7.15 billion ($8.72 billion) bid to buy Portugal Telecom's stake in Brazil's leading cell phone company Vivo....
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
By
SANGWON YOON
2010-06-29T19:42:39Z
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's parliament voted Tuesday to legalize chemical castration as punishment for convicted child sex offenders after a series of violent assaults sparked outrage nationwide....
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
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2010-06-28T19:53:38Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- You might be able to get rich quick if you can fix the BP oil spill....
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
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2010-06-28T19:53:38Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- You might be able to get rich quick if you can fix the BP oil spill....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T19:46:20Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T19:46:20Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T19:46:20Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T19:46:20Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T19:46:20Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-27T11:33:45Z
LONDON (AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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2010-06-27T06:38:52Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Skygazers got a treat Saturday when a portion of the moon crossed into the Earth's shadow during a partial lunar eclipse visible in the western United States and Canada, the Pacific and eastern Asia....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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2010-06-27T06:38:52Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Skygazers got a treat Saturday when a portion of the moon crossed into the Earth's shadow during a partial lunar eclipse visible in the western United States and Canada, the Pacific and eastern Asia....
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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2010-06-27T04:37:43Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Attention skygazers: A portion of the moon will cross into the Earth's shadow Saturday during a partial lunar eclipse visible in the western United States and Canada, the Pacific and eastern Asia....
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
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PHUONG LE and JOHN FLESHER
2010-06-26T07:27:48Z
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) -- While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico....
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
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MARIA CHENG
2010-06-26T01:26:05Z
LONDON (AP) -- Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives, but his new prosthetic paws make him one of the world's few bionic cats....
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
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2010-06-25T22:34:35Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Attention skygazers: A portion of the moon will cross into the Earth's shadow Saturday during a partial lunar eclipse visible in the western United States and Canada, the Pacific and eastern Asia....
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
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2010-06-25T09:24:23Z
BEIJING (AP) -- A huge bright green algae bloom is blanketing the sea off China's east coast and wind is driving it closer to land, an official said Friday....
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
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2010-06-25T09:24:23Z
BEIJING (AP) -- A huge bright green algae bloom is blanketing the sea off China's east coast and wind is driving it closer to land, an official said Friday....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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DINESH RAMDE
2010-06-25T03:35:01Z
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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DINESH RAMDE
2010-06-25T03:35:01Z
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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DINESH RAMDE
2010-06-25T03:35:01Z
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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DINESH RAMDE
2010-06-25T03:35:01Z
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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ARTHUR MAX
2010-06-24T23:35:02Z
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) -- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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ARTHUR MAX
2010-06-24T23:35:02Z
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) -- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood....
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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ARTHUR MAX
2010-06-24T23:35:02Z
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) -- Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood....
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