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Baby pelicans starving along Calif. coast
Jun 23 2006 9:48PM (CT)
CORDELIA, Calif. (AP) - Miles from the shoreline, 10 baby brown pelicans lounge by a pool in a roomy cage, large buckets of fish there for the taking. Just days ago, these birds could not feed themselves at all. Scores of starving baby pelicans _ emaciated, cold and too weak to fly _ are washing up on California beaches in disturbing numbers this spring.
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Darwin's reputed tortoise dies at 176
Jun 23 2006 8:00PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A 176-year-old tortoise reputedly discovered by Charles Darwin and believed to be one of the world's oldest living creatures has died in an Australian zoo.
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Biologists: Whooping cranes produced chick
Jun 23 2006 7:54PM (CT)
NECEDAH, Wis. (AP) - Biologists believe a pair of whooping cranes has produced a chick in central Wisconsin. If true, the chick would be the first to hatch in the wild in the eastern United States in more than 100 years.
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Boat speed limit proposed to save whales
Jun 23 2006 7:53PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - A federal agency wants to set a speed limit for boats along stretches of the East Coast to help protect endangered whales from deadly collisions.
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Denmark to set up ice cap stations
Jun 23 2006 7:52PM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Denmark is to set up seven unmanned measuring stations along the edge of Greenland's vast ice cap, to monitor how fast the frozen sheet covering the massive island is thinning, Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard announced Friday.
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Spill exposes China's environmental woes
Jun 23 2006 7:46PM (CT)
ZHONG'ERSHI VILLAGE, China (AP) - The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream.
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Earth hottest it's been in 2,000 years
Jun 23 2006 7:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years. The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures for the past two millennia, said Thursday the data are "additional supporting evidence ... that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."
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Study says spider web developed just once
Jun 23 2006 7:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Will you walk into my parlor, said a Cretaceous spider to an ancient fly. The classic spider's web, like Charlotte would have woven, was invented just once, way back in the Cretaceous period some 136 million years ago, scientists report.
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Shells may have been earliest jewelry
Jun 23 2006 7:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ancient beads that may represent the oldest attempt by people at self-decoration have been identified from sites in Algeria and Israel.
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Some science teachers use DNA, blood
Jun 23 2006 7:44PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Junior high and high school science classes used to mean dissecting frogs and learning the periodic table. But some teachers _ inspired by the popularity of crime scene television shows _ want to get younger students interested in science by using DNA and blood spatter instead.
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