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Study: Megaflood separated U.K., France
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says.
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Int'l space station ticket price climbs
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - When it comes to complaining about poor exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, American tourists traveling to Europe have nothing on tourists headed into space. The cost of flying to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship has increased from $25 million earlier this year to $30 million. Trips planned in 2008 and 2009 will cost $40 million.
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'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
DELFT, Netherlands (AP) - A gaggle of geese runs riot in the Hof van Delft Park. They honk, they hiss, they harass and _ it's hard not to notice _ they scatter droppings everywhere. Soon, a lanky young man comes to impose order on the chaos.
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'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
DELFT, Netherlands (AP) - A gaggle of geese runs riot in the Hof van Delft Park. They honk, they hiss, they harass and _ it's hard not to notice _ they scatter droppings everywhere. Soon, a lanky young man comes to impose order on the chaos.
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'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
DELFT, Netherlands (AP) - A gaggle of geese runs riot in the Hof van Delft Park. They honk, they hiss, they harass and _ it's hard not to notice _ they scatter droppings everywhere. Soon, a lanky young man comes to impose order on the chaos.
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'Goose Whisperer' bonds with park birds
Jul 18 2007 7:13PM (CT)
DELFT, Netherlands (AP) - A gaggle of geese runs riot in the Hof van Delft Park. They honk, they hiss, they harass and _ it's hard not to notice _ they scatter droppings everywhere. Soon, a lanky young man comes to impose order on the chaos.
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Agency designates habitat for 3 species
Jul 18 2007 4:25PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated about 50 acres in Hays and Comal counties as critical habitat for two species of beetles and a shrimp-like crustacean.
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Texas man battles flesh-eating bacteria
Jul 18 2007 4:19PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A Nacogdoches man was in critical but stable condition after three surgeries aimed at saving him from a flesh-eating bacteria that infected him during a swim off the coast of Galveston County.
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Scientists: Trout not endangered species
Jul 18 2007 3:48PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Yellowstone cutthroat trout are "holding their own" in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming despite threats ranging from habitat loss and disease to hybridization with other species, state and federal fisheries biologists said Wednesday.
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Teachers to learn about climate change
Jul 18 2007 3:40PM (CT)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - School teachers from across Alaska are getting lessons this month at the University of Alaska Fairbanks so they can more effectively teach their students back home about climate change.
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Boat hits finback whale off N.H. coast
Jul 18 2007 3:15PM (CT)
RYE, N.H. (AP) - A boat struck a whale off New Hampshire's coast, leaving a deep gash as sightseers aboard three whale-watching boats snapped photos.
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