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'Corpse flower' blooms, ends smelly peak
Aug 11 2006 9:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Inhale. New Yorkers can breathe easy again: The "corpse flower" has passed its smelly peak. But the plant dubbed "Baby" may soon have some of its own.
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NYC professor promotes urban fish farm
Aug 11 2006 9:44PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In the basement of an ivy-covered building on the surprisingly leafy campus of Brooklyn College is something even more surprising: thousands of tilapia packed tighter than a subway car into 300-gallon fiberglass fish tanks.
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Dying salt marshes puzzle scientists
Aug 11 2006 8:16PM (CT)
WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) - Pockmarked muck blots this formerly lush marsh on Cape Cod, and a creek carves off eroded chunks along its edges. Dead plant roots jut from barren mud once covered with wavy mats of marsh hay.
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Pacific 'dead zone' said to exceed fears
Aug 11 2006 7:55PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Scientists say the oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought.
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Scientists: Aspen trees in West dying
Aug 11 2006 7:55PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - Something is killing the quaking aspen trees of the Rocky Mountain West. The slender, white-barked trees that paint the hills gold every autumn are dying, some scientists say, leaving bald patches across the Rockies. Experts are scrambling to figure out what's happening.
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Pigeons beam air quality info to blog
Aug 11 2006 7:33PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pigeons with backpacks and cell phones will be taking to the sky and sending air quality data to a blog as part of a whimsical project that blends science, art and activism.
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Rare bird spotted in Texas valley
Aug 11 2006 7:32PM (CT)
MISSION, Texas (AP) - Birders from around the country have been coming to the Rio Grande Valley to catch sight of a Northern Jacana that is far north of normal range.
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