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Business to push carbon pricing at APEC
Sep 4 2007 10:44PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pacific Rim business leaders say governments must make polluting more costly to businesses and make investing in expensive energy-efficient technologies more attractive if they want to reduce global warming.
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Archaeologists discover ancient beehives
Sep 4 2007 10:03PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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Archaeologists discover ancient beehives
Sep 4 2007 10:03PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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SKorea selects first astronaut
Sep 4 2007 9:47PM (CT)
GWACHEON, South Korea (AP) - South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old robotics expert will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.
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Vt. agency fights spread of rock snot
Sep 4 2007 5:54PM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The state is plotting its next step in the war against rock snot, an aquatic algae that has infiltrated three of its rivers.
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Possible mastodon carving found on rock
Sep 4 2007 5:51PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - They aren't certain, but underwater archaeologists say they may have discovered a boulder with a prehistoric carving in Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay.
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N.Y. seeks to limit turtle, frog hunting
Sep 4 2007 4:36PM (CT)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State conservation officials have proposed setting a 10-week hunting season for snapping turtles, while establishing both size and bag limits to protect the reptile that was named the state turtle last year.
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Toxic algae remains in Ind. reservoir
Sep 4 2007 4:18PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The latest round of tests show that a toxic algae bloom on Geist Reservoir continues with little change in the toxin's levels in the lake, a state health official said.
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Endangered turtle nests found in Texas
Sep 4 2007 3:15PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.
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Endangered turtle nests found in Texas
Sep 4 2007 3:15PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.
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Endangered turtle nests found in Texas
Sep 4 2007 3:15PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.
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Britain to decide on stem cell research
Sep 4 2007 3:10PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Britain is considering whether to permit research using animal eggs to create human stem cells _ a process that tests the ethical boundaries of cutting-edge scientific research.
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Livestock breed extinction concerns U.N.
Sep 4 2007 3:08PM (CT)
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (AP) - The rate at which livestock breeds are disappearing is "alarming," a senior official at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday, warning that precious genes could be lost forever.
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Livestock breed extinction concerns U.N.
Sep 4 2007 3:08PM (CT)
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (AP) - The rate at which livestock breeds are disappearing is "alarming," a senior official at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday, warning that precious genes could be lost forever.
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