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Science academies urge greenhouse gas cuts
Jun 7 2005 9:53PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The U.S. National Academy of Sciences joined similar groups from other nations Tuesday in a call for prompt action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, warning that delays will be costly.
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Colorado chosen for cosmic ray observatory
Jun 7 2005 8:18PM (CT)
DENVER, Colo. (AP) - An international science group Tuesday chose Colorado as the site of a $50 million observatory to measure the cosmic rays that continually bombard the Earth.
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Experts: Ohio's osprey population growing
Jun 7 2005 8:14PM (CT)
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) - Environmental experts say the state's osprey population is self-sustaining less than a decade after the Division of Wildlife reintroduced the raptor to Ohio.
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Scientists nudge fish closer to extinction
Jun 7 2005 8:10PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Scientists trying to study the endangered Devils Hole pupfish near Death Valley inadvertently nudged the endangered fish closer to extinction.
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Mont. to fight spread of noxious weeds
Jun 7 2005 8:07PM (CT)
HELENA (AP) - They infest a portion of Montana the size of Florida and Arkansas combined, and go by names like tansy ragwort, yellow toadflax and houndstongue. One species, knapweed, takes an estimated $42 million economic toll on the state every year.
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Dolphins protect their snouts with sponges
Jun 7 2005 8:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor. Researchers say it appears to be a cultural behavior passed on from mother to daughter, a first for animals of this type, although such learning has been seen in other species.
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Groups seek tougher red snapper measures
Jun 7 2005 9:51AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal regulators have done too little to save the overfished red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, a new lawsuit by environmental groups alleges.
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Va. scientists go abroad to ID skeleton
Jun 7 2005 8:33AM (CT)
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Virginia preservationists are nearing the end of a two-year quest to determine whether a skeleton discovered at the site of the Jamestown settlement is that of one its founders.
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Lynx making a comeback in Minnesota
Jun 7 2005 6:42AM (CT)
BRIMSON, Minn. (AP) - It was only five years ago that some biologists declared lynx all but eliminated from Minnesota. But when they started looking hard, researchers found lynx across St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties of northeastern Minnesota. Last year, a lynx den was discovered in Minnesota for the first time in more than 20 years.
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Semifinalists named in desert robot race
Jun 7 2005 6:16AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Let the battle of the machines begin again. Forty self-navigating robots were chosen Monday to compete in the Oct. 8 sequel to last year's first-ever robot race across the Mojave Desert.
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