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Super photo from Luciole friend/contributing author Aine MacAodha of the frozen river Strule in Ireland

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2010 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Parasites may protect against allergies

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a wave crashes into the waterfront at Sidon port-city in south Lebanon

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2010 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 8:03 PM | Add Comment

Nearly all U.S. dollar bills in circulation 'have traces of toxic chemical on them'

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 7:55 PM | Add Comment

Reunited after five years, a family and the cat they lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2010 6:39 PM | Add Comment

Amazing pictures of sea life sanctuary in the Pacific

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2010 1:02 AM | Add Comment

Not sure how they made this photo, but it's very cool (snow-covered tree in Budapest)

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:54 AM | Add Comment

How 'bioluminescent' trees that glow like fireflies could one day replace our streetlights

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:40 AM | Add Comment

Book Talk: Saving China's tigers in Africa

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:31 AM | Add Comment

I love this photo from Luciole friend/contributor Dena Rash Guzman

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 3:18 AM | Add Comment

Caged and bound for Britain: Factory-farmed monkeys are being shipped in the thousands to UK laboratories

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2010 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the very adorable endangered pygmy rabbit

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2010 5:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman crosses a polluted gutter in the main outdoor food market in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2010 8:16 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tigers could be extinct in 12 years if unprotected

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Shoppers shrug off fears about toxic reusable bags

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:22 PM | Add Comment

Whales suffering burn blisters 'because of holes in the ozone layer'

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:14 PM | Add Comment

Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2010 8:40 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Review: National Park Field Guides application

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2010 2:00 AM | Add Comment

Deadlock in UN biodiversity talks in Nagoya

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Why the Moon really IS silvery: Lunar surface contains traces of precious metal and is 6% water

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2010 2:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: two killer whales near San Juan Island, Washington

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2010 9:12 PM | Add Comment

Special Report: The problem with phthalates

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

America moves on from spill; Gulf coast feels abandoned: "It's amazing how quickly the American public forgot that this was one of the worst manmade disasters in U.S. history"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

DNA barcode library to launch in Toronto

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:44 PM | Add Comment

New Zealand rescuers save 14 whales from stranded pod

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

Florida panthers bound back thanks to Texas mates

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2010 8:23 PM | Add Comment

The curse of the blood rubies: Inside Burma's brutal gem trade

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:43 AM | Add Comment

Trapped Chilean miners not being told it may be Christmas before they can be rescued

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:33 AM | Add Comment

Photo: carbon dioxide gas from deep underground fissures bubbles up through geothermal mudpots, over the San Andreas fault

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 8:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a park ranger carries orphaned female mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, Congo

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Myanmar 'has created world's largest tiger reserve'

Posted by kluciole at 8/5/2010 8:43 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New marine study finds thousands of amazing new species

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 6:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

China bets future on inland cities

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:46 AM | Add Comment

EPA: 1 million gallons of oil may be in Michigan river after pipeline spills into the Kalamazoo

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 2:56 AM | Add Comment

BP chief executive Tony Hayward will walk away with a payoff of up to 18.5 million dollars

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Suicide tied to air pollution and asthma

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 7:58 PM | Add Comment

Hundreds of dead penguins wash up on Brazil's shores

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:25 PM | Add Comment

Discovery News article: Tigers Facing Global Extinction

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:06 AM | Add Comment

World simmers during hottest year on record

Posted by kluciole at 7/18/2010 5:00 AM | Add Comment

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:06 AM | Add Comment

Baby animals in oil spill face uncertain future

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:56 AM | Add Comment

Photographer captures stunning arc caused by midnight sun in northern Finland

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 4:08 PM | Add Comment

EPA: the Clean Air Interstate Rule would overturn Bush-era plan; "measure requires 31 states from Massachusetts to Texas to reduce smog and soot-producing emissions"

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:31 PM | Add Comment

Cool photo: a sun halo appears behind a streetlight in Calcutta, India

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a heavily oiled bird is rescued from the waters of Barataria Bay

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:45 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the solar powered house of the University of Applied Sciences of Rosenheim, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

International Energy Agency director general Nobuo Tanaka says BP oil spill was avoidable

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) as observed from the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Human race "will be extinct within 100 years" -- claims leading scientist who helped eradicate smallpox

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:17 AM | Add Comment

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:14 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the River Artuby floods streets in Draguignan, southern France, after torrential rain in the region

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: cracked earth on the edge of the Lam Takhong Dam, northeast of Bangkok, Thailand

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:08 PM | Add Comment

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

The red plains of Mars were once covered by a vast ocean

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:57 PM | Add Comment

US finds mineral riches in Afghanistan: "enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers"

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:45 PM | Add Comment

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Posted by kluciole at 6/13/2010 10:42 PM | Add Comment

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:13 AM | Add Comment

"Mysterious Mountains Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed." The Gamburtsev Mountains are "vaster than the Alps"

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:59 PM | Add Comment

AP journalist Rich Matthews dives into Gulf, can see only oil

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:34 AM | Add Comment

Paper industry tests genetically altered trees

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:44 AM | Add Comment

Seven people convicted over Bhopal (India) gas tragedy that killed 15,000 people 25 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:40 AM | Add Comment

A little piece of home: Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates 75th anniversary

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:42 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a zoo keeper feeds a crocodile during World Environment Day celebrations at the Malabon Zoo in Manila

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:41 PM | Add Comment

Sickening new images of the helpless wildlife dying in the muck of the BP spill

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:36 PM | Add Comment

Scientists find a 'hint of life' on Saturn's moon Titan

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:33 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Computer models show Gulf oil could wind up on East Coast by July, and be carried on currents across Atlantic Ocean by Bermuda and toward Europe

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Sandstone arch at southern Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park collapses (I think it still looks like a dragon, but now one lying down with wings above it)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:07 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A giant 'basking shark' in Cornwall, swimming alongside surfers at Porthcurno beach

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:00 PM | Add Comment

California moves to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, and charge for paper bags

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:47 PM | Add Comment

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a brown pelican soaked in oil struggles for survival on an island in Louisiana State waters.

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:46 AM | Add Comment

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Charges considered in deaths of 83 wild horses

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:14 PM | Add Comment

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger. Hurricane season starts Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Heartbreaking photo: a young heron lays dying amidst oil underneath mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, the coast of Lousiana

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a penguin chick shelters between parents in sub-zero temperatures on Snow Hill Island

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment

NASA images reveal Gulf of Mexico oil spill entering powerful current that could carry it to Florida and beyond

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:06 PM | Add Comment

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years, UN warns, "unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:41 PM | Add Comment

Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing. Photos of a pelican being cleansed of oil, and a ship passing through oil patch

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a car drives through ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Eyjafjoll

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:42 AM | Add Comment
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