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Scientists may have found new fish species
Feb 14 2006 9:30PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Scientists have discovered what they believe is a new fish species and at least 20 types of previously unknown seaweeds during a recent expedition to one of the Caribbean's most diverse marine areas _ a coral-covered underwater mountain off the Dutch island of Saba.
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Scientists track lightning storm on Saturn
Feb 14 2006 9:30PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Researchers are tracking a gigantic storm on Saturn that is unleashing lightning bolts more than 1,000 times stronger than those found on Earth.
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Parents, students fine with math, science
Feb 14 2006 7:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - If improving science and math education is suddenly a national priority, someone apparently forgot to tell the parents and the students.
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Experts to test possible Joan of Arc bones
Feb 14 2006 7:16PM (CT)
GARCHES, France (AP) - A team of scientists hopes to crack one of the layers of mystery surrounding 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc: Could a rib and other fragments recovered after she was burned at the stake be hers?
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Gov't develops plan for the bald eagle
Feb 14 2006 7:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The proud symbol of a nation for more than two centuries, the iconic and elegant American bald eagle also is emblematic of a snail-paced federal bureaucracy.
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Brazil's president creates forest reserves
Feb 14 2006 7:15PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has created two new national parks in the Amazon rain forest and expanded another to protect an environmentally sensitive region where the government plans a major highway project.
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Number of tricolored blackbirds decreasing
Feb 14 2006 7:12PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The population of tricolored blackbirds has been plummeting for decades but the federal government has failed to list them as endangered, a group claimed in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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Forest Service cancels logging near canyon
Feb 14 2006 6:52PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - The federal government has canceled plans to set controlled fires and conduct forest thinning on more than 17,000 acres of old-growth timber near the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Delmarva farms vaccinating chickens
Feb 14 2006 2:22PM (CT)
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) - A highly contagious respiratory disease that is harmless to humans has hit about 20 chicken farms along the Eastern Shore, forcing some farms to begin vaccinating their birds.
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