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Earth Hour to fight climate change
Mar 28 2008 11:24PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia will be one of the first countries in the world to turn off its lights for an hour Saturday night as part of a global campaign to raise awareness about climate change.
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Tenn. zoo breeds endangered frogs
Mar 28 2008 10:04PM (CT)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A new breeding program at the Memphis Zoo could nearly double the known population of an endangered frog species. Biologists estimate there are only about 100 adult Mississippi gopher frogs left in the wild, but zoo officials say they've successfully produced 94 tadpoles through in-vitro fertilization.
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Emotion makes nose a sharper smeller
Mar 28 2008 4:34PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Know how a whiff of certain odors can take you back in time, either to a great memory or bad one? It turns out emotion plays an even bigger role with the nose, and that your sense of smell actually can sharpen when something bad happens.
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Warming affects trees, streams in West
Mar 28 2008 4:32PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation.
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Snorkeling teen finds shark tooth
Mar 28 2008 4:32PM (CT)
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) - David Wentz was snorkeling off Marysville Beach in the St. Clair River last August when what he thought was an odd-looking rock caught his eye. "I didn't know what to think," the 16-year-old Port Huron resident said.
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