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Canada unveils park to protect grizzlies
Feb 7 2006 10:31PM (CT)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Canada unveiled a 16-million acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home of many native tribes.
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Feds move to protect polar bears
Feb 7 2006 10:30PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The federal government on Tuesday took the first step toward listing the polar bear as a threatened species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said protection may be warranted under the Endangered Species Act, triggering a review process that could lead to its listing.
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Archaeologists unearth headless sphinx
Feb 7 2006 10:28PM (CT)
TIVOLI, Italy (AP) - Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx.
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Scientists find 'Lost World' in Indonesia
Feb 7 2006 10:28PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia's most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp.
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Lawmaker seeks probe of logging study
Feb 7 2006 6:12PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Questioning whether the Bush administration is manipulating science for political ends, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., called Tuesday for an inspector general's investigation into why federal funding was suspended for a study that goes against White House-supported legislation to speed up logging after wildfires on national forests.
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NASA focuses on developing new moon craft
Feb 7 2006 9:46AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA has delayed two programs that search for planets capable of supporting life as the space agency instead focuses on developing a new manned spacecraft to return to the moon in the next decade.
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New species discovered in Indonesia jungle
Feb 7 2006 7:55AM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Scientists exploring an isolated jungle in one of Indonesia's most remote provinces discovered dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants _ as well as mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere, members of the expedition said Tuesday.
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