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Brazil to crack down on deforestation
Jan 24 2008 10:33PM (CT)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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Brazil to crack down on deforestation
Jan 24 2008 10:33PM (CT)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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Asteroid will swing by, but won't stop
Jan 24 2008 10:33PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An asteroid at least 500 feet long will make a rare close pass by Earth next week, but there is no chance of an impact, scientists reported Thursday.
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Cyprus divers to dig out ancient ship
Jan 24 2008 10:33PM (CT)
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday.
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Researchers looking at coral threats
Jan 24 2008 10:32PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.
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Puget Sound orca recovery plan released
Jan 24 2008 8:04PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The National Marine Fisheries Service on Thursday released its recovery plan for Puget Sound's endangered killer whales, aimed at lessening the threats posed to the orcas by pollution, vessel traffic and decreased availability of food.
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Wichita students chat with astronauts
Jan 24 2008 5:36PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station shared pictures, showed off their candy stash and flubbed a simple math equation as they talked to Wichita fifth-graders via a downlink.
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Scientists create synthetic genome
Jan 24 2008 5:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.
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Forecasters debate hurricanes, warming
Jan 24 2008 8:14AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
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