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Red tide idles shellfish beds in Mass.
Jun 3 2005 8:59PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - The worst red tide in decades idled about two-thirds of the shellfish beds in Massachusetts on Friday as the toxic algae bloom spread off the coast to Nantucket.
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Work to resume near rare Ark. woodpecker
Jun 3 2005 8:38PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to resume construction Monday of a pumping station on a river just miles from where the ivory-billed woodpecker, once thought extinct, now lives.
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Permafrost may be shrinking arctic lakes
Jun 3 2005 8:01PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Arctic lakes are shrinking, and melting permafrost brought on by higher temperatures may be the reason, according to a research paper.
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Study looks at Yellowstone roads, bison
Jun 3 2005 8:00PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Roads groomed for snowmobiles and snowcoaches in Yellowstone National Park are not the key factor influencing bison distribution and numbers in the park, a researcher said Friday.
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Scientists to breed 'test tube' sharks
Jun 3 2005 7:46PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australian scientists will attempt to breed gray nurse sharks in artificial wombs under a plan to boost the critically endangered species' numbers, a state fisheries minister said Friday.
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Fish role eyed in coal-bed methane debate
Jun 3 2005 7:45PM (CT)
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - Ever since developers learned how to tap coal seams in the Powder River Basin for natural gas, they've struggled with what to do with the brackish groundwater that comes out first. A fish may be the answer.
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Archaeologists find hoard of Celtic coins
Jun 3 2005 9:43AM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the country.
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NASA may launch Phoenix Mars in 2007
Jun 3 2005 6:55AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - NASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed lander on Mars' icy north pole to search for clues for water and possible signs of life, the space agency said Thursday.
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Scientists study how to tell T. Rex's sex
Jun 3 2005 2:10AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bones of the mighty T. rex tell a lot about the great dinosaurs, but one major detail has been missing. Which is the she rex and which the he rex? Researchers think they have found the answer.
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