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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

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:35 AM | Add Comment

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

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

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 2:05 PM | Add Comment

The future of Mount St. Helens 30 years later

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:52 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:52 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Glacier park turns 100, but age has not been kind

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Montana, Idaho consider increased wolf hunt quotas

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:27 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2010 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Amazing underwater wonderworld off Britain's coast reveals natural treasures

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2010 2:47 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2010 2:33 PM | Add Comment

Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2010 2:28 PM | Add Comment

The lions among the bluebells

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2010 6:28 PM | Add Comment

'Germ Islands' Found Floating in Ocean

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2010 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2010 6:05 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:55 PM | Add Comment

94% of fish stocks have vanished from British waters

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:30 PM | Add Comment

Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:04 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 12:13 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/2/2010 11:53 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment
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