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Salmon spawn baby trout in experiment
Sep 13 2007 9:47PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.
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Study sees cities' air quality worsening
Sep 13 2007 9:47PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - A study released Thursday predicts more bad air days in the summer for Cleveland, Columbus and eight other eastern U.S. cities if global warming continues unabated.
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N.M. fossilized tracks gain protection
Sep 13 2007 5:12PM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A federal agency's decision not to renew a mining permit for a rock quarry near Las Cruces will better protect a repository of pre-dinosaur era fossil tracks.
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Researchers track Lake Erie algae blooms
Sep 13 2007 5:02PM (CT)
CLEVELAND (AP) - NASA scientists are teaming with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor Lake Erie's harmful algae blooms, a move that could lead to early warnings for beachgoers and water departments.
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Report: Smog in N.C. cities will worsen
Sep 13 2007 4:15PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Three North Carolina cities could see their number of bad air days double by the middle of this century unless global warming is reduced to curb smog, according to a report released Thursday by an environmental group.
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Sea turtle not ready to return to ocean
Sep 13 2007 4:08PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Five months after the first phase of his trek from the world's largest aquarium to his native home off the Georgia coast, Dylan the sea turtle is taking his time finishing the journey.
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Study: Cutbacks imperil climate research
Sep 13 2007 3:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's climate change research is threatened by spending cuts that will reduce scientists' observations from space and on the ground, a study says.
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Shrinking kilogram bewilders physicists
Sep 13 2007 3:48AM (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 13 2007 3:48AM (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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Cassini in safe mode after Saturn flight
Sep 13 2007 3:48AM (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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Ebola said depleting gorilla populations
Sep 13 2007 3:47AM (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 13 2007 3:47AM (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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