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Britain: Climate change threatens coasts
Jan 15 2008 7:39PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Climate change is warming Britain's waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday.
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Polar bear cub opens eyes for first time
Jan 15 2008 7:17PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Germany's latest famous polar bear cub opened her eyes for the first time on Tuesday _ and it appears she may be cross-eyed.
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Polar bear cub opens eyes for first time
Jan 15 2008 7:17PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Germany's latest famous polar bear cub opened her eyes for the first time on Tuesday _ and it appears she may be cross-eyed.
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Zebra mussel discovered in California
Jan 15 2008 6:22PM (CT)
HOLLISTER, Calif. (AP) - State wildlife officials say a destructive species known as the zebra mussel has been discovered in California for the first time.
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Tsunami linked to Yellowstone crater
Jan 15 2008 5:59PM (CT)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Tsunami-like waves created by an earthquake may have triggered the world's largest known hydrothermal explosion some 13,000 years ago, a federal scientist says.
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Scientists test dinos' sexual maturity
Jan 15 2008 5:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Adolescent pregnancy isn't a modern invention, it occurred in dinosaurs millions of years ago. Medullary bone, a type of tissue present in modern birds when they are developing eggs, has been found in three dinosaur fossils, researchers report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Beetles may wipe out Colo. lodgepoles
Jan 15 2008 5:56PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Strands of distressed, red pine trees across northern Colorado and the Front Range are a visible testament to the bark beetle infestation that officials said will kill most of the state's lodgepole pine trees within 5 years.
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Famed cancer researcher Folkman dies
Jan 15 2008 1:09PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking cancer researcher whose work cured the disease in mice and gave hope for a cure in humans, has died. He was 74.
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