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New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf

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

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

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

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Myanmar 'has created world's largest tiger reserve'

New marine study finds thousands of amazing new species

China bets future on inland cities

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

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

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Petition seeks to have wolves howl across US

Suicide tied to air pollution and asthma

Hundreds of dead penguins wash up on Brazil's shores

Discovery News article: Tigers Facing Global Extinction

World simmers during hottest year on record

Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web

Baby animals in oil spill face uncertain future

Photographer captures stunning arc caused by midnight sun in northern Finland

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"

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

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"

Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction

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

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

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

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

Next stop France for oldest baby mammoth

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

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

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

Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

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

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily

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

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

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

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

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

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

Paper industry tests genetically altered trees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Charges considered in deaths of 83 wild horses

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

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")

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

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

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

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

As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

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

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

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

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

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

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

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

Drilling critics warn of oil spill in Arctic Ocean: "They're not ready for the Arctic"

Photo: an Indonesian miner collects sulphur surrounded by thick toxic smoke at the Kawah Ijen crater

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Photo: a turtle and a mermaid display team from Florida in a tank at the Sea Life London Aquarium

The future of Mount St. Helens 30 years later

An oil platform towers in the background as a pelican flies past a surfer off the coast of Carpenteria, California

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Photo: Ecuadorean natives block the highways in Otavalo town to protest against a new water resources law

Scientists stunned as grey whale sighted off Israel, thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred years

Photo: a muddy cat takes cover near a tree amidst tornado damage in Oklahoma

Glacier park turns 100, but age has not been kind

Montana, Idaho consider increased wolf hunt quotas

Photo: two farms are dwarfed by a plume of ash rising from volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier

Amazing underwater wonderworld off Britain's coast reveals natural treasures

World's biggest beaver dam discovered in northern Canada, "an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space"

Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

The lions among the bluebells

'Germ Islands' Found Floating in Ocean

Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc

Photo: a dead sea turtle lies on the beach in Pass Christian, Mississippi

94% of fish stocks have vanished from British waters

Photo: a woman walks in the rain under blooming flowering cherry trees in Frankfurt Oder, Germany

Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you

Bee numbers plummet as billions of colonies die across the world due to pesticides. Experts warn collapse of colonies will bring devastation as plants will not be pollinated

Study shows it only takes 5 minutes outdoors to boost mental health

2 Articles: "Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'the bad one' — recipe for disaster" and "Many endangered turtles dying on Texas Gulf Coast "

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Baffling death of rare Siberian tiger, pregnant Malyshka, who drowned at Banham zoo in Norfolk, leaving behind two 17-month-old babies