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Biotech seeks to ease reliance on corn
Apr 13 2007 11:23PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The ethanol craze is putting the squeeze on corn supplies and causing food prices to rise. Mexicans took to the streets last year to protest increased tortilla prices. The cost of chicken and beef in the United States ticked up because feed is more expensive. That's where biotechnology comes in.
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'Landmark' ocean plan passes in Calif.
Apr 13 2007 11:13PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - One of the nation's most ambitious plans to protect marine life was approved Friday when a state panel voted to ban or restrict fishing across more than 200 square miles of water off Central California.
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China launches navigation satellite
Apr 13 2007 10:29PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese rocket placed a navigation satellite in orbit Saturday as part of an effort to build a global positioning system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Astronaut to start marathon on time
Apr 13 2007 10:00PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - All systems are go for astronaut marathoner Suni Williams. Williams, who qualified for the Boston Marathon before learning she would be at the international space station on race day, was cleared for a 26.2-mile simulated run at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday _ just when the real event will be leaving Hopkinton down on Earth.
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NASA: Mars Surveyor was doomed by humans
Apr 13 2007 8:26PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year, according to a preliminary report released Friday.
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East River becomes a green zone
Apr 13 2007 5:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The murky rivers around New York City bring to mind many things _ garbage, chemicals, perhaps mobsters' bodies. Clean energy is not one of them.
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East River becomes a green zone
Apr 13 2007 5:57PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The murky rivers around New York City bring to mind many things _ garbage, chemicals, perhaps mobsters' bodies. Clean energy is not one of them.
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Hundreds of climate rallies planned
Apr 13 2007 5:41PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A group of Middlebury College students looking to draw attention to global warming have sparked a national day of action beyond their wildest expectations: 1,350 actions planned Saturday across all 50 states.
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Hundreds of climate rallies planned
Apr 13 2007 5:41PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A group of Middlebury College students looking to draw attention to global warming have sparked a national day of action beyond their wildest expectations: 1,350 actions planned Saturday across all 50 states.
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Hundreds of climate rallies planned
Apr 13 2007 5:41PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A group of Middlebury College students looking to draw attention to global warming have sparked a national day of action beyond their wildest expectations: 1,350 actions planned Saturday across all 50 states.
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French beekeepers brace for Asian sting
Apr 13 2007 1:42PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.
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French beekeepers brace for Asian sting
Apr 13 2007 1:42PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.
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French beekeepers brace for Asian sting
Apr 13 2007 1:42PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.
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Panel: US faces change as climate warms
Apr 13 2007 4:16AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Chicago and Los Angeles will likely to face increasing heat waves. Severe storm surges could hit New York and Boston. And cities that rely on melting snow for water may run into serious shortages.
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Panel: US faces change as climate warms
Apr 13 2007 4:16AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Chicago and Los Angeles will likely to face increasing heat waves. Severe storm surges could hit New York and Boston. And cities that rely on melting snow for water may run into serious shortages.
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Greenhouse gas study says 1 pct from NYC
Apr 13 2007 4:16AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City produces nearly 1 percent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions _ an amount that puts it on par with Ireland or Portugal _ according to a city study.
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NASA aims for June launch of Atlantis
Apr 13 2007 4:15AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's decision to wait until at least June to launch space shuttle Atlantis also sets back the next three shuttle missions and extends one astronaut's time on the international space station.
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Penguins prepare nests for mating season
Apr 13 2007 4:14AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - They're the rock stars of the bird world these days, the Rolling Stones of the feathered set. But the penguins at the Shedd Aquarium are showing it's not all film premieres _ think "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins" _ and sushi. It's rocks. Real rocks a bird can build a nest out of.
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Penguins prepare nests for mating season
Apr 13 2007 4:14AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - They're the rock stars of the bird world these days, the Rolling Stones of the feathered set. But the penguins at the Shedd Aquarium are showing it's not all film premieres _ think "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins" _ and sushi. It's rocks. Real rocks a bird can build a nest out of.
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Penguins prepare nests for mating season
Apr 13 2007 4:14AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - They're the rock stars of the bird world these days, the Rolling Stones of the feathered set. But the penguins at the Shedd Aquarium are showing it's not all film premieres _ think "Happy Feet" and "March of the Penguins" _ and sushi. It's rocks. Real rocks a bird can build a nest out of.
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Scientists map DNA of research monkeys
Apr 13 2007 4:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have unraveled the DNA of another of our primate relatives, this time a monkey named the rhesus macaque _ and the work has far more immediate impact than just to study evolution.
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Researchers decode T Rex genetic material
Apr 13 2007 4:11AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have decoded genetic material from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, an unprecedented step once thought impossible.
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Earthquake causes coral reefs to die
Apr 13 2007 4:06AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia raised an island nearly four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest coral die-offs recorded, scientists said Friday.
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Earthquake causes coral reefs to die
Apr 13 2007 4:06AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia raised an island nearly four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest coral die-offs recorded, scientists said Friday.
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Earthquake causes coral reefs to die
Apr 13 2007 4:06AM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia raised an island nearly four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest coral die-offs recorded, scientists said Friday.
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