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Thriving bald eagles may lose protection
Jun 17 2005 9:50PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The population of bald eagles has rebounded so dramatically in Pennsylvania that the species may soon be moved off the state's endangered list and accorded the less serious status of a threatened species.
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USC, partner to study fuel cell technology
Jun 17 2005 9:33PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The University of South Carolina has a new partner in its effort to develop a technology that some researchers say could become an alternate power source.
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Africanized bees spotted in SW Arkansas
Jun 17 2005 8:58PM (CT)
BRIGHTSTAR, Ark. (AP) - Some unwanted arrivals from Texas have been spotted in this southwest Arkansas town. State Plant Board officials say the presence of Africanized honey bees has been confirmed in Brightstar, in southern Miller County.
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Woolly mammoth closer to asian elephants
Jun 17 2005 8:56PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese scientists said Friday that DNA tests have shown that the prehistoric woolly mammoth is more closely related to Asian elephants than to their African counterparts, settling a long-running debate over the lineage of the giant animals that went extinct 10,000 years ago.
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Rare chatty songbird spotted in Calif.
Jun 17 2005 8:50PM (CT)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A chatty songbird thought to have disappeared from the Central Valley 60 years ago has been spotted nesting in a patch of restored habitat along the San Joaquin River.
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Tsunami may have spread alien species
Jun 17 2005 8:49PM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Indian Ocean tsunami's devastating waves brought more than death to this island nation _ they upset some of Sri Lanka's key ecosystems, the U.N. environmental agency warned Friday.
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U.S. resists strong G8 warming language
Jun 17 2005 8:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is working in advance of next month's summit of industrial nation leaders to resist naming global warming as an urgent problem that requires aggressive action.
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Future giant laser threatened by cuts
Jun 17 2005 8:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A giant laser being built to simulate the explosion of a hydrogen bomb is facing funding cuts in the Senate that supporters say could kill the project after $2.8 billion has been spent on it.
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Retired mechanic finds new flower species
Jun 17 2005 8:48PM (CT)
BAUXITE, Ark. (AP) - Hiking in the Ouachita Mountains one day, retired mechanic John Pelton's eye caught a pink flower that he hadn't noticed before. The man with a passion for plant life couldn't figure out just what kind of flower he had found in Saline County.
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$13 million telescope project halted
Jun 17 2005 1:29PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The National Science Foundation agreed to halt construction of a $13 million mountainside telescope complex after an American Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit claiming the site is sacred.
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Russian, German win energy-related prize
Jun 17 2005 12:51PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) - Russian physicist and Nobel prize winner Zhores Alfyorov and German academic Klaus Riedle, who have won this year's Global Energy Prize, received the Russian award on Friday.
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