|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Giant panda gives birth at Atlanta zoo
Sep 6 2006 10:57PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - After seven years of trying and hoping, Zoo Atlanta officials announced a rare giant panda birth Wednesday, one of only a few in the United States.
|
|
|
More 'intersex fish' found in Potomac
Sep 6 2006 10:19PM (CT)
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - Some species of male fish in the Potomac River and its tributaries are developing female sexual traits at a frequency higher than scientists have seen before, raising concerns about pollutants in a waterway that provides drinking water for millions of people.
|
|
|
Twin pandas born in southwest China
Sep 6 2006 10:10PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - A giant panda in southwest China has given birth to a pair of twins, state media said, the latest additions in a baby boom for the endangered animals.
|
|
|
NASA tries to decide on shuttle launch
Sep 6 2006 9:21PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An electrical problem forced NASA to postpone Wednesday's liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis yet again, and engineers faced with a tight launch schedule struggled to understand the problem.
|
|
|
Domestic elk escape near Yellowstone
Sep 6 2006 7:33PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - More than 100 domesticated elk have escaped from a private game reserve on the border of Yellowstone National Park in eastern Idaho, raising fears the animals will blemish the genetic purity of wild herds, spread disease and flummox hunters.
|
|
|
EPA plans restrictions for Calif. frog
Sep 6 2006 7:28PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The federal government is proposing a temporary restriction on 66 pesticides that scientists have blamed for wiping out the threatened California red-legged frog in some parts of the state.
|
|
|
Giant panda gives birth at Atlanta zoo
Sep 6 2006 7:26PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - After seven years of trying and hoping, Zoo Atlanta officials announced a rare giant panda birth Wednesday, one of only a few in the United States.
|
|
|
Study says methane a new climate threat
Sep 6 2006 7:06PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb.
|
|
|
Senators fault stem cell research claim
Sep 6 2006 6:17PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A company that claimed it developed a way to harvest stem cells from days-old human embryos without harming the embryos was accused at a Senate hearing Wednesday of misrepresenting its work.
|
|
|
Biologist accused of destroying plants
Sep 6 2006 6:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - To prosecutors, Robert "Roy" van de Hoek is a vandal with pruning shears. To supporters of native California shrubs and trees, he's a martyr. Once again, he's in court.
|
|
|
Fish havens pit fishermen vs. activists
Sep 6 2006 2:01PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A plan to create fish refuges off the South Carolina coast sparked a clash between fishermen and conservationists.
|
|
|
|
|
|