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Dallas Zoo looks at waste-to-energy plan
Nov 1 2007 10:25PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Dallas Zoo officials are moving forward with a plan to turn animal droppings, cardboard and tree limbs into power for several buildings and irrigation for the zoo's landscaping.
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Mich. arborist looks to clone redwoods
Nov 1 2007 8:15PM (CT)
SAN GERONIMO, Calif. (AP) - When David Milarch first visited Northern California in 1968, he thought he would see avenues of coast redwoods 100 miles long. What he found instead, he said, was a "moonscape."
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China says there's no space race in Asia
Nov 1 2007 8:12PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Over a few short months, Japan, China, and India will all have lunar probes orbiting the moon, sparking talk of a new space race in Asia. China, for one, takes exception at that characterization.
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Female grizzly bear deaths worry experts
Nov 1 2007 8:12PM (CT)
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - The overall grizzly bear population in the Yellowstone area is thriving, but there is some concern about the number of female grizzlies killed this year.
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Agency seeks to change mouse protection
Nov 1 2007 8:11PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed removing the Preble's meadow jumping mouse from Endangered Species Act protection in Wyoming but continuing protection for the mouse in Colorado as a threatened subspecies.
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Lower water levels not linked to erosion
Nov 1 2007 8:11PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Video images from the St. Clair River bottom show no evidence that erosion is causing water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron to drop, scientists working for a U.S.-Canadian advisory group said Thursday.
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NASA plans spacewalk to fix solar wing
Nov 1 2007 8:11PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts in orbit and engineers on Earth tried to figure out Thursday how best to pull off what will be one of the most difficult and dangerous spacewalking repairs ever attempted in orbit.
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Group: Freshwater fish faces extinction
Nov 1 2007 3:39PM (CT)
GLAND, Switzerland (AP) - More than one in three of Europe's freshwater fish species faces extinction because ecosystems are being destroyed, the World Conservation Union said Thursday.
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Scientists Decode Most of Mo. Cat's DNA
Nov 1 2007 6:50AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases.
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