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Artifacts could be from early galleon
Feb 26 2007 11:42PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.
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Artifacts could be from early galleon
Feb 26 2007 11:42PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.
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Wash. artifacts show history of old fort
Feb 26 2007 10:38PM (CT)
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - Archaeologists are using broken pottery, bullets and buttons found over the past 60 years to piece together the history of a 19th century fort along the Columbia River. Some 2 million artifacts have been dug up at Fort Vancouver, which from 1829 to 1866 served as a hub for fur and mercantile trade and military activity in the West.
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Scientists wary of Lake Superior warming
Feb 26 2007 7:19PM (CT)
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - For Jay Austin, who has made a career of studying the Great Lakes, the warming climate around Lake Superior is no mystery. But he was surprised to find the waters of the lake itself warming even more rapidly.
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Researchers take poles' temperature
Feb 26 2007 7:12PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - More than 50,000 scientists from 63 nations turned their attention to the world's poles Monday to measure the effects of climate change, using icebreakers, satellites and submarines to study everything from the effect of solar radiation on the polar atmosphere to the exotic marine life swimming beneath the Antarctic ice.
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Top scientist seeks halt on coal plants
Feb 26 2007 7:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the world's top scientists on global warming called for the United States to stop building coal-fired power plants and eventually bulldoze older generators that don't capture and bury greenhouse gases.
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Governors team to reduce gas emissions
Feb 26 2007 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed up with federal inaction and convinced of the dangers from global warming, five governors from Western states agreed Monday to work together to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Governors team to reduce gas emissions
Feb 26 2007 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed up with federal inaction and convinced of the dangers from global warming, five governors from Western states agreed Monday to work together to reduce greenhouse gases.
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DNA from ivory may lead to poachers
Feb 26 2007 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The complex science of DNA analysis is now helping protect elephants by showing police and conservationists the source of black-market ivory.
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Scholars, clergy slam Jesus documentary
Feb 26 2007 1:46PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.
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Iran says 'space rocket' was for study
Feb 26 2007 12:39PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian rocket launched over the weekend that soared to the edge of space was intended for research, an Iranian space official said, in comments that appeared intended to show that the program is aimed at launching satellites, not missiles.
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