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Iranian gas for Iraqi electricity?
BAGHDAD, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Iraq would like to use gas from a pipeline crossing its country from Iran to produce electricity, the country's oil minister said. ...
In post-Katrina era, floods will still win
New Orleans has only gradually resurrected itself after the city drowned five years ago this week following Hurricane Katrina. That process echoes an unpleasantly familiar drama that has played out...
Russia to build China link before South Stream
MOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom may build a gas pipeline from Russia to China before it completes South Stream. ...
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Frank powering back up near Mexico
Tropical Storm Frank was wavering overnight in the eastern Pacific Ocean, just off the southwest Mexican coast, and recent satellite data has confirmed that convection has strengthened within the storm....
TAPI talks planned during U.N. meeting
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Leaders from Ashgabat and Kabul will meet in the United States in September to discuss a trilateral natural gas pipeline, the Turkmen government...
Russia gloomy on grain harvests
MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The annual grain harvest for Russia was down by nearly 30 percent as drought and wildfires wiped out a portion of the crop, an...
Chaos described as BP hearings resume
The Transocean manager who supervised the ill-fated rig says he was unclear on who was in charge. Other testimony describes the rig captain as hesitating on key safety decisions.The night...
British bacteria are hardy space travelers
LONDON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Bacteria from cliffs on the south coast of England have proven themselves hardy astronauts, surviving a year and a half as space travelers, researchers...
Oxygen 'oases' led to all life on Earth
TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The presence of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere came from ancient microbes inhabiting "oxygen oases" in the oceans billions of years ago, U.S. researchers...
Weather's effect on old buildings eyed
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Scottish researchers say they've developed a method of forecasting weather damage to historic buildings and statues that could help in their preservation. ...
NSU Scientists Receive BP Money to Research Oil Spill's Impact
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is using part of a $10 million block grant from BP to conduct research on the Gulf Oil Spill's impact on the marine ecosystem, officials announced...
Battle to degas deadly lakes continues
Funding shortage is biggest hurdle for those striving to disarm three rare but lethal geological hazards.
Floods add to China's geological disasters
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- China has been hit by 26,000 geological disasters in the first 7 months of this year, a government official said. ...
Australia's electorate sends climate-change message
Swing towards Greens in federal election puts global warming back in the spotlight.
Plant Biologist Mary Gehring Joins Whitehead Institute Faculty
Mary Gehring will be studying epigenetic reprogramming in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Her work has commonalities and potential synergies with research occurring in other Whitehead laboratories.
50 Years Ago: Photographs of an Antarctic Odyssey
For the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's and Robert Falcon Scott's race to the South Pole, Robert A. McCabe has published a book of photographs and journal entries collected from...
White Rock boil water advisory continues
A boil water advisory for White Rock, B.C., could be lifted on Monday afternoon if tests continue to find the water is clear of E.coli bacteria.
How Crops Battle Nuclear Fallout
Environmental Contaminants: Scientists investigate how flax plants' proteomes change when grown near Chernobyl.
Deep Ocean Research Just a Click Away
Expedition to map and sample methane ice deposits, an underwater volcano and seafloor hot springs.
Judge To Rule In Virginia Climate Case
Investigation: State asks court to force university to provide climate researcher's data, emails.
Iran sidelined on Nabucco pipeline
VIENNA, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The consortium for the Nabucco gas pipeline to Europe has no current plans for a feeder line from the Iranian border, the group announced...
Apache strikes oil in Egypt
HOUSTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- New oil discoveries in the Western Desert of Egypt are indicative of the abundant resources west of the Nile River, an executive at Apache...
Lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding development of new medicines
An unlikely effort is underway to lift the veil of nearly total secrecy that has surrounded the process of developing new prescription drugs for the last century. The upheaval in...
Kuwait eyes oil production with Iraq
KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The Kuwaiti government is waiting for its counterparts in Baghdad to sign a deal to work bilaterally on oil fields along the border,...
June quake rattled Natural Resources website
The June earthquake that was felt by more than 20 million people in Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern U.S. also paralyzed the Natural Resources Canada website.
Gandalf's homing instinct kicks in
Gandalf, the vulture who decided to go absent without leave during an airshow in Cumbernauld last Tuesday, has returned home
Keeping Tabs on the Next Generation of Transgenic Crops
Scientists develop framework to monitor second-generation transgenic crops.
Whale collision sinks boat
A whale and a pleasure craft carrying a family of five collided off Campobello Island, N.B., on Saturday night, sinking the boat in the Bay of Fundy.