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Beech bark disease on eco-invader list
Feb 3 2007 10:44PM (CT)
SENEY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Mich. (AP) - Tracy Casselman runs a hand over the smooth, gray bark of an American beech, noting the scratch marks left by black bears that have clambered up the tree to munch nuts rich in fat and protein.
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46 nations back body to protect planet
Feb 3 2007 10:09PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Forty-five nations answered France's call Saturday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.
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46 nations back body to protect planet
Feb 3 2007 10:09PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Forty-five nations answered France's call Saturday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.
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46 nations back body to protect planet
Feb 3 2007 10:09PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Forty-five nations answered France's call Saturday for a new environmental body to slow inevitable global warming and protect the planet, perhaps with policing powers to punish violators.
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Endangered cranes killed in Fla. storms
Feb 3 2007 10:08PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.
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Endangered cranes killed in Fla. storms
Feb 3 2007 10:08PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.
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Boxer wants U.S. to host energy summit
Feb 3 2007 8:34AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The head of the Senate's Environment Committee called on the White House Friday to hold a summit grouping the 12 largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations.
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Researcher fights pest with whey, fungus
Feb 3 2007 8:33AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A University of Vermont researcher is using the dairy product whey and a fungus to take aim at a pest that has ravaged East Coast hemlocks. Scott Costa said the method will allow an insect-killing fungus to grow in the field rather than in a laboratory, cutting down on the prohibitive costs.
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Mastodon tooth fossil remains a mystery
Feb 3 2007 8:33AM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton here that is one of the world's most complete.
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Professor wins $1M for arsenic filter
Feb 3 2007 8:32AM (CT)
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize _ and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world.
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Ky. aquarium hopes 2 sharks will mate
Feb 3 2007 8:32AM (CT)
NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) - Cupid's making a stop at the "Swimming with Sharks" exhibit at the Newport Aquarium _ just in time for Valentine's Day.
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Ky. aquarium hopes 2 sharks will mate
Feb 3 2007 8:32AM (CT)
NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) - Cupid's making a stop at the "Swimming with Sharks" exhibit at the Newport Aquarium _ just in time for Valentine's Day.
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Rome subway planners try to avoid relics
Feb 3 2007 8:31AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs.
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Rome subway planners try to avoid relics
Feb 3 2007 8:31AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs.
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Rome subway planners try to avoid relics
Feb 3 2007 8:31AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs.
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Northern fur seal pup estimates decline
Feb 3 2007 8:31AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday. The number of pups born between 2004 and 2006 in Alaska's Pribilof Islands, home of the world's largest rookeries, fell by 9 percent from the previous two year estimate, according to researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Northern fur seal pup estimates decline
Feb 3 2007 8:31AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday. The number of pups born between 2004 and 2006 in Alaska's Pribilof Islands, home of the world's largest rookeries, fell by 9 percent from the previous two year estimate, according to researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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