Published: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:22:41 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming....
Published: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:08:50 GMT
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father....
Published: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:54:49 GMT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA said Friday it will press ahead with plans to launch a supersized rover to Mars next year despite spiraling costs and schedule pressures....
Published: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:42:41 GMT
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A tortoise, a hare, a mouse and a half-dozen mussels are some of the creatures that a conservation group hopes to save through a 'Western Ark' project aimed at petitioning the government for federal protection....
Published: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:47:30 GMT
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look....
Published: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:00:06 GMT
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BOSTON (AP) -- An animal welfare official says a wayward manatee that was rescued from cold Cape Cod waters died on the way home to Florida....
Published: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:46:39 GMT
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95....
Published: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:32:17 GMT
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Scientists have confirmed the second case of a 'virgin birth' in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center contained no genetic material from a male....
Published: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:01:38 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics. While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an even greater threat, say scientists who studied conditions in Costa Rica....
Published: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:07:49 GMT
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide....
