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Ebola said depleting gorilla populations
Sep 12 2007 10:13PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union.
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Ebola said depleting gorilla populations
Sep 12 2007 10:13PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union.
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Cassini in safe mode after Saturn flight
Sep 12 2007 8:57PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The international Cassini spacecraft went into safe mode this week after successfully passing over a Saturn moon that was the mysterious destination of a deep-space faring astronaut in Arthur C. Clarke's novel "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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Ancient Greek jar found on Albania coast
Sep 12 2007 8:07PM (CT)
SARANDA, Albania (AP) - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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Ancient Greek jar found on Albania coast
Sep 12 2007 8:07PM (CT)
SARANDA, Albania (AP) - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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Experts: Climate change puts sea at risk
Sep 12 2007 8:06PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.
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Experts: Climate change puts sea at risk
Sep 12 2007 8:06PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.
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Eating less meat may slow climate change
Sep 12 2007 8:06PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Eating less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby decreasing the amount of methane flatulence from the animals, scientists said on Thursday.
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Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
Sep 12 2007 8:06PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight _ if ever so slightly.
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Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
Sep 12 2007 8:06PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight _ if ever so slightly.
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Officials delay manatee downlisting vote
Sep 12 2007 5:22PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Bowing to a request from Gov. Charlie Crist, state wildlife commissioners voted Wednesday to delay a decision on whether to reclassify the manatee from an endangered to a threatened species.
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NASA sought to stop astronaut meltdowns
Sep 12 2007 4:56PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA e-mails released Wednesday indicate the space agency was looking for ways to prevent astronaut meltdowns just three months before one-time shuttle flier Lisa Nowak was arrested in a scandalous love triangle.
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Study: Lead bullets poison birds in Wyo.
Sep 12 2007 4:29PM (CT)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Researchers say fragments from lead bullets continue to poison scavengers like ravens and eagles in the Jackson Hole area.
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Officials delay manatee downlisting vote
Sep 12 2007 4:23PM (CT)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Manatee advocates and Gov. Charlie Crist applauded a decision Wednesday by state wildlife commissioners to delay downgrading the status of the animal from endangered to threatened.
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'Killer bees' descend on New Orleans
Sep 12 2007 2:48AM (CT)
MERAUX, La. (AP) - Africanized honeybees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as "killer bees," appear to have established themselves in the New Orleans area, the state agriculture commissioner said.
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