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Gore: Award puts focus on global warming
Oct 12 2007 11:12PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency."
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Gore: Award puts focus on global warming
Oct 12 2007 11:12PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency."
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Gore: Award puts focus on global warming
Oct 12 2007 11:12PM (CT)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency."
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Butterfly sighting causes stir in Texas
Oct 12 2007 4:41PM (CT)
FALCON HEIGHTS, Texas (AP) - A tiny green butterfly not seen in the United States in more than 70 years likes the new butterfly garden at Falcon State Park, experts said.
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Experts try to rid Minn. of buckthorn
Oct 12 2007 4:28PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Landscape experts are experimenting with chemicals and bugs in an effort get rid of stubborn buckthorn _ a pesky, nonnative shrub that crowds out other plants and prevents new growth of native species.
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Gore, scientists share Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 12 2007 4:00PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Plenty of people share the glory of the Nobel Peace Prize _ thousands of scientists have been studying and documenting climate change under a U.N. body set up in 1988 as concerns grew about global warming. And they hope the award will help _ or prod _ governments to do more to curb global warming or avert disasters on the scale of a Hurricane Katrina or the deadly effects of the 2003 heat wave that killed up to 35,000 people in Europe.
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Astronauts arrive at int'l space station
Oct 12 2007 3:43PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - An American astronaut climbed aboard the international space station Friday for a stint as its first female commander after a two-day trip from Earth and a textbook docking.
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