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15 whales die in NZ beach stranding
Jan 22 2008 11:12PM (CT)
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers refloated another 15 and monitored their progress toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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Project aims to map DNA of 1,000 people
Jan 22 2008 8:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Any two people may be roughly 99 percent identical at the genetic level. But the small differences are what tantalize scientists, and now they plan to map the DNA of 1,000 people worldwide to examine human genetic variation.
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Study: Warming may cut US hurricane hits
Jan 22 2008 8:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.
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Dozens of rare reptiles die in India
Jan 22 2008 4:45PM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.
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Utah scientist: Dust shortening winters
Jan 22 2008 4:36PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Western winters are getting shorter because of dust kicked up by urban and agricultural development, a University of Utah researcher said.
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