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Groups sue to protect marine mammals
Feb 13 2007 11:45PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.
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Blair, Merkel say fight global warming
Feb 13 2007 11:27PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries would push strongly this year for new emissions goals.
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Archaeologists extracting ancient lovers
Feb 13 2007 9:56PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Archaeologists working on the eve of Valentine's Day carefully began digging up the bones of a prehistoric couple on Tuesday, hoping to keep their 5,000-year-old embrace undisturbed forever.
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Navy rejects Calif. sonar limits
Feb 13 2007 8:47PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - The Navy says it won't comply with sonar training restrictions that aim to protect marine mammals off the California coast, arguing that the commission that imposed the rules does not have the jurisdiction to do so.
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Costa Rica probes deaths of 500 pelicans
Feb 13 2007 7:43PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Authorities in Costa Rica said Tuesday they are investigating the mysterious deaths of about 500 brown pelicans along the country's Pacific coast over the last five days but do not suspect bird flu was the cause.
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Group: Germany's amphibians threatened
Feb 13 2007 7:16PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - This year's unusually warm winter could cause large numbers of amphibians to die in Germany, an environmental organization said Tuesday.
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Alabama's bald eagle population booming
Feb 13 2007 7:10PM (CT)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - After 15 years of checking bald eagle nests from small planes, there are now an estimated 100 nesting pairs, up from 77 the previous year and 10 times the state's recovery goal under the Endangered Species Act. With the nest-to-nest status check by plane ending last year, the state now will start watching over a few dozen nests to monitor the eagles' health.
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Ancient chimps may have used hammers
Feb 13 2007 7:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chimpanzees may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300 years ago. An international research team, led by archaeologist Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, Canada, said Monday it had uncovered the hammers, dated to that time, in the West African country Ivory Coast. It would be the earliest known use of tools by chimpanzees.
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Norway to encase sunken German WWII sub
Feb 13 2007 7:07PM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A German submarine that was sunk off Norway at the end of World War II will be buried in special sand to protect the coastline from its cargo of toxic mercury, the government announced Tuesday.
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China seeks talks on space weapons treaty
Feb 13 2007 6:54AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China on Tuesday called for talks on a space weapons treaty, a day after its defense minister reportedly said the country had no plans for a repeat of last month's test of an anti-satellite weapon.
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