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Gunnison sage grouse won't be put on list
Apr 12 2006 8:49PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Federal officials announced Wednesday that they have decided against placing the Gunnison sage grouse on the endangered species list, saying the bird's numbers have stabilized or increased over several years.
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EPA says toxic pollution levels fall
Apr 12 2006 6:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that chemical pollution released into the environment fell more than 4 percent from 2003 to 2004, led by declines among the metal mining, electric utility and hazardous waste industries.
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New fossil links up human evolution
Apr 12 2006 6:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development.
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Geologists find ancient worm feces
Apr 12 2006 6:30PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Swedish geologists have found fossilized feces from a worm that lived some 500 million years ago, media reports said Wednesday.
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NASA employees mark shuttle anniversary
Apr 12 2006 6:30PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - NASA workers and flight crews on Wednesday observed the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight with equal parts pride and optimism.
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Japan sets up team for lunar landing
Apr 12 2006 6:29PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's space agency has set up a team to send an unmanned mission to the surface of the moon, possibly within the next 10 years, officials said Wednesday.
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Scientists use Labs to find Arctic seals
Apr 12 2006 6:24PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - America's most popular dog is a big hit with scientists who are using Labrador retrievers to hunt up seals for study in the Arctic.
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Study blames mold for 1990s fish ulcers
Apr 12 2006 6:19PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A new round of research again challenges the findings of a North Carolina State researcher who linked a parasitic algae to dozens of fish kills off the East Coast in the 1990s.
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Fla.'s newest problem: Burmese pythons
Apr 12 2006 6:14PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's newest problem is roughly the circumference of a telephone pole. It has no toes. It snacks on rabbits. It's the Burmese python. And in South Florida, the problem is growing in number and in feet.
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Make that 28 tropical storms last year
Apr 12 2006 4:00PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Nearly five months after the record-shattering 2005 hurricane season ended, the summer of storms suddenly grew bigger by one.
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Singapore woos top U.S. scientists
Apr 12 2006 2:40PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Singapore's siren song is growing increasingly more irresistible for scientists, especially stem cell researchers who feel stifled by the U.S. government's restrictions on their field.
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Brazil gets its first man in space
Apr 12 2006 11:18AM (CT)
STAR CITY, Russia (AP) - Cooperation between nations comes easily at zero gravity _ but soccer is a different matter, Brazil's first man in space said Tuesday after a nine-day visit to the international space station.
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BLM proposes wild horse birth control
Apr 12 2006 11:15AM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, concerned about deteriorating conditions at the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, is proposing the use of birth control over the next five years to limit herd growth while the agency works on range improvement projects and a long-term herd plan, an agency official said.
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Meteorites get high prices at art sale
Apr 12 2006 11:10AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter sold for $93,000 at an auction of rare space sculptures.
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