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Ga. lab aims to halt the hemlock pest
Mar 16 2007 9:42PM (CT)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Like a bloodsucking mosquito, the hemlock woolly adelgid plunges its needle-like mouth deep into the branches of hemlock trees and slowly sucks out the nutrients. The pest's telltale sign is the touch of frost-like wool it produces near tree needles, but the real signal of its wrath comes when the evergreen trees die about a decade later.
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Feds looks at climate impact on animals
Mar 16 2007 8:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will examine whether a growing number of species, including polar bears affected by thinning sea ice, are at risk from global warming and need federal protection, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday.
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Feds looks at climate impact on animals
Mar 16 2007 8:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will examine whether a growing number of species, including polar bears affected by thinning sea ice, are at risk from global warming and need federal protection, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday.
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New leopard species found in Borneo
Mar 16 2007 6:19PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The clouded leopard of Borneo _ discovered to be an entirely new species _ is the latest in a growing list of animals and plants unique to the Southeast Asian country's rainforest and underscores the need to preserve the area, conservationists said Thursday.
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Congressman says NASA needs more funding
Mar 16 2007 6:19PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The chairman of the U.S. House science committee said Thursday that NASA is headed for "a train wreck" if the space agency isn't better funded to finish building the international space station and develop the next-generation spacecraft.
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Study challenges theories on species
Mar 16 2007 6:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - More species develop in warm, tropical climates or cooler, temperate areas? It turns out the longtime answer _ the tropics _ may be wrong. True, more different types of animals exist there than in places farther from the equator. New research suggests that is because tropical species do not die out as readily. Cooler regions have a higher turnover rate, with more species developing but also more becoming extinct.
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Winter warmest on record worldwide
Mar 16 2007 6:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - This winter was the warmest on record worldwide, the government said Thursday in the latest worrisome report focusing on changing climate. The report comes just over a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global warming is very likely caused by human actions and is so severe it will continue for centuries.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Biologists enter dens to manage bears
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
MILFORD, Pa. (AP) - Mark Ternent squeezes his bulky frame into the narrow opening of a bear den and shines a flashlight into the eyes of a 200-pound female. Two black bear cubs are suckling, and their mother looks back at Ternent, alert but relaxed. It is early March, and these bears won't come out of hibernation for another six weeks.
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Sighting of rare woodpecker questioned
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A Scottish scientist says American bird experts may have been wrong when they concluded that the ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct, might have survived. In an article published Wednesday in the journal BMC Biology, University of Aberdeen geneticist Martin Collinson disputed whether a video shot by an Arkansas scientist showed the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Bald eagle nest found in Philadelphia
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Wildlife authorities have found the first bald eagle nest in the city in more than 200 years, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said Friday.
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Gore gets signatures for climate change
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday.
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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Modern technology reveals mummy's past
Mar 16 2007 6:18PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died _ and at such a young age _ remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy.
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Hurricane chief warns of old satellite
Mar 16 2007 4:06PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Certain hurricane forecasts could become less accurate if a key weather satellite that is already beyond its expected life span fails, the nation's new top forecaster said Friday.
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Counties launch anti-global warming plan
Mar 16 2007 2:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Residents of Virginia's largest county might soon see more vegetation growing on roofs and more green space in new neighborhoods as part of a multimillion-dollar initiative to combat global warming.
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