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Hail storm damage delays shuttle launch
Feb 27 2007 9:46PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dings on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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Hail storm damage delays shuttle launch
Feb 27 2007 9:46PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dings on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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Hail storm damage delays shuttle launch
Feb 27 2007 9:46PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dings on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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EU wants to speed up tuna protection
Feb 27 2007 9:13PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The European Union's top fisheries official on Tuesday pressed for stronger protections for the overfished bluefin tuna, an increasingly rare delicacy in high-end restaurants around the world.
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Scientists: Geyser event was a burp
Feb 27 2007 9:08PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Scientists have classified a spout of steam earlier this month at Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat geyser as a "forceful minor eruption."
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Study: Pygmy owl numbers down in Mexico
Feb 27 2007 9:00PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A university study shows the population of a tiny endangered owl in northern Mexico has declined by an estimated 26 percent over the last seven years, a finding that environmentalists said bolsters their arguments for greater protection for the bird in Arizona.
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La Nina's brewing, forecasters warn
Feb 27 2007 8:57PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Forecasters warned Tuesday that a La Nina weather pattern _ the nasty flip side of El Nino _ is brewing, bringing with it the threat of more hurricanes for the Atlantic.
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EU faces new fights over the environment
Feb 27 2007 2:50PM (CT)
ROSPUDA RIVER VALLEY, Poland (AP) - A sharp wind rustles the brittle wetland grasses, and the snow crunches underfoot _ the only sounds in the Rospuda River valley, home to one of Europe's best preserved peat bogs. The bog and surrounding pine forest _ a home to eagles, wolves, lynx and wild orchids that survived a Communist regime notorious for its disregard for the environment _ have become the center of a strident dispute between Poland and the European Union over plans to build a highway the
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Scientists offer climate plan to U.N.
Feb 27 2007 11:13AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - To head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Chinese scientists control pigeons
Feb 27 2007 7:23AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese scientists have succeeded in implanting electrodes in the brain of a pigeon to remotely control the bird's flight, state media said.
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