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Discovery docks with space station
Dec 11 2006 11:08PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts used the international space station's robotic arm to examine a spot on the shuttle Discovery's left wing Monday where sensors detected a "very low" impact, NASA officials said.
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CO2 could extend life of space junk
Dec 11 2006 11:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Carbon dioxide emissions from global warming are cooling and shrinking the outermost atmosphere, keeping orbiting spacecraft airborne longer but also increasing the threat that space junk poses to satellites, scientists reported Monday.
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19th century ship found in Lake Ontario
Dec 11 2006 9:55PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A 19th-century commercial sailing ship, its twin masts still intact, sits upright in deep, frigid waters off the southern shore of Lake Ontario.
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Baby plesiosaur bones found in Antarctic
Dec 11 2006 9:28PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.
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California to limit lawnmower emissions
Dec 11 2006 8:59PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency granted California long-awaited permission Monday to slash emissions from lawnmowers and other small-engine machines, a change it will seek nationally next year.
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Experts mull plan to save red squirrel
Dec 11 2006 7:05PM (CT)
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) - Like U.S. GIs during World War II, they're "oversexed and over here." The gray squirrel _ introduced to Britain from the United States in the 19th century _ is now overrunning the countryside, out-breeding and out-eating its smaller British cousin, the red squirrel.
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Baby seal found in Britain back in sea
Dec 11 2006 7:00PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A seal pup that was found by the side of a country road miles from the coast or the nearest river has been successfully released back into the Irish Sea, wildlife officials said Monday.
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Scientist examines city squirrels' lives
Dec 11 2006 7:00PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Squirrels hit the genetic lottery with their chubby cheeks and bushy tails. It's hard to imagine picnickers tossing peanuts and cookies at the rodents if they looked like rats. But good looks alone don't get you through Chicago winters. Nor do they help negotiate a treacherous landscape of hungry cats, cars and metal traps.
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Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown
Dec 11 2006 6:55PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some of the scientists who first advanced the controversial "nuclear winter" theory more than two decades ago have come up with another bleak forecast: Even a regional nuclear war would devastate the environment.
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Scientists marvel at sea life miles deep
Dec 11 2006 12:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a Dec. 10 story about the Census of Marine Life, The Associated Press quoted Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation as saying researchers have identified 70,000 kinds of marine mammals. Ausubel was referring to marine animals of all types, not just mammals.
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Scientists marvel at sea life miles deep
Dec 11 2006 12:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a Dec. 10 story about the Census of Marine Life, The Associated Press quoted Jesse Ausubel of the Sloan Foundation as saying researchers have identified 70,000 kinds of marine mammals. Ausubel was referring to marine animals of all types, not just mammals.
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Launch of rocket scrubbed due to glitch
Dec 11 2006 11:01AM (CT)
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - The launch of a rocket carrying two satellites for the Air Force and NASA was scrubbed early Monday because of a problem with the software for one of the satellites, officials said.
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Mideast may save Dead Sea with Red Sea
Dec 11 2006 8:51AM (CT)
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) - Officials from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority met along the shores of the Dead Sea to settle details of a study to save the shrinking body of water, agreeing to proceed with plans to draw water from the Red Sea.
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SMS can tell you if fish is endangered
Dec 11 2006 8:06AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South African diners whose environmentalism is as discerning as their palates now can turn to technology to help make the right menu choices.
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