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Illegal fish threaten Wyo. trout stream
Oct 31 2005 8:59PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Burbot _ an aggressive, eel-like fish that eat young trout _ have been illegally stocked in a reservoir in southwest Wyoming, and officials say they now pose a threat to some of the state's premier trout water in the upper Green River.
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Mont. wildlife officials kill nine Wolves
Oct 31 2005 8:57PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Federal wildlife managers killed nine wolves in just over a month for allegedly attacking or killing livestock in southwest Montana.
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Ariz. researchers to study urban coyotes
Oct 31 2005 8:44PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - State and university researchers plan a detailed study on urban neighborhoods that have become hot spots for coyotes.
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Armadillos spread north in Georgia
Oct 31 2005 8:41PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - After years in south Georgia, where they are common road kill and a nuisance to some homeowners, armadillos have spread to the chillier northern half of the state where their digging and burrowing is already generating complaints.
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October sets rainfall records in Northeast
Oct 31 2005 8:36PM (CT)
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - With a month of widespread flooding from Maine to Maryland, it should come as no surprise that it was the wettest October on record in 15 cities throughout the Northeast, Cornell University meteorologists reported Monday.
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Russian officials set Nov. 9 launch date
Oct 31 2005 8:33PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian space officials Monday set a Nov. 9 blastoff for a European probe to explore Venus after its earlier launch was postponed because of a booster rocket problem.
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Scientists try to explain crash of delta
Oct 31 2005 8:33PM (CT)
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) - Biologists aboard the research vessel Scrutiny sounded the alarm a year ago when their nets came up with the fewest young striped bass and delta smelt since annual surveys began in 1959.
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Pluto has three moons, Hubble images show
Oct 31 2005 8:31PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon was spotted in 1978.
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Russia, China may cooperate in lunar probe
Oct 31 2005 10:24AM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia and China may cooperate in a lunar exploration program that would culminate with a manned moon mission within less than two decades, the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian space official as saying Monday.
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Can billions of dollars build biodefenses?
Oct 31 2005 9:37AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The bacteria lie dormant, freeze-dried in sealed ampules, in a refrigerator on a teeming university campus beside the Nile. They're among Earth's most common germs _ clostridia perfringens, a cause of food poisoning, a specimen for research. But this pathogen can also be a weapon: Iraqi scientists worked for years to mobilize this "Agent G" for Saddam Hussein's wars.
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White House plan adds $55 million for NOAA
Oct 31 2005 6:07AM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane forecasting and research improvements _ including a new "hurricane hunter" airplane _ are part of a Bush administration proposal to provide an additional $55 million this year for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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