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VIDEO: Climate Change Satellite Launched
Early today NASA launched its new satellite, Jason 2, which will monitor how ocean masses move in an effort to understand climate change's effects.
When It Comes to Female Red Squirrels, It Seems Any Male Will Do
Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives. Researchers...
New Way To Control Water Pollution? Mats Designed To Capture And Stabilize Pollution In Rivers
In a mud flat at the edge of the Cocheco River, just outside downtown Dover, New Hampshire, scientists are testing an innovative way to treat polluted sediment in coastal waterways....
Latrines And Out-houses Trounce Toilets In Global War Against Poor Sanitation
While Americans may consider flush-and-forget-it indoor plumbing to be the pinnacle of sanitary science, the lowly latrine could be a far better solution for many parts of the developing world....
Odd structures in Canadian lake studied
HAMILTON, Ontario, June 18 (UPI) -- Canadian scientists plan to retrieve samples from a British Columbia lake that might hold clues to the history of life on Earth...
Massive Floods Strike U.S. Midwest--Again [News]
The cities along the Mississippi River and its tributaries in Iowa are the latest victims of heavy rains in early June, with cities farther down the river expected to face...
Dumping mining waste into water 'more responsible': fisheries minister
Tailing waste produced by mining companies is best stored in water, the federal fisheries minister said Tuesday, defending a planned move by bureaucrats to reclassify 16 Canadian lakes as toxic...
Don't Rebuild on China Quake Faults, Experts Warn
More widespread death and destruction could occur if China rebuilds on the active tectonic faults that caused the May 12 quake in Sichuan Province, scientists say.
PHOTOS: 1780 British Warship Found in Lake Ontario
A "holy grail" of Great Lakes wrecks, the remarkably intact H.M.S. Ontario is the oldest wreck yet found in the Great Lakes.
VIDEO: Peru Artifacts Returned
Peru's government has reclaimed more than a hundred pre-Inca and colonial artifacts from private collections in Germany and the United States.
Underground CO2 capture testing is urged
PITTSBURGH, June 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. professor is urging Congress to pass legislation to fund demonstrations of new technologies that trap and store carbon dioxide emissions underground.
Harsh Climate Scoured Early Earth, Study Says
Earth's early atmosphere may have been highly corrosive to rocks, gradually dissolving away all but the toughest of minerals, a new study suggests.
Mass Extinctions Due to Sea Level Changes, Study Says
The rise and fall of the seas may have a more lethal toll on Earth's life than asteroids and supervolacanoes, according to a new study.
Wilkins Ice Shelf still vanishing
PARIS, June 17 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says the Antarctic's Wilkins Ice Shelf continued to break-up with a 100-mile area breaking away at the end of...
Panda Areas Damaged, Destroyed by China Quake
At least 80 percent of giant pandas' Sichuan habitat was destroyed or damaged in the May 12 quake, a Chinese official announced today.
P.E.I. declares war on bedbugs
While there have been no reports of bedbugs in P.E.I. accommodations in the past two years, the tourism industry is still working to ensure they don't become a problem.
Coral eating starfish retreat from reef
The outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish that has been plaguing the Great Barrier Reef is waning, but coral disease is on the rise, a new study has found.
Lynas's Six Degrees wins Royal Society award
Mark Lynas's grim exploration of the implications of global warming has won Britain's most prestigious prize for science writing
Samoa Found To Be In Path Of Geological Hotspots, Adding Fuel To Debate Over Origins Of Volcanic Chains
A new study that determines Samoa is indeed on the path of a geologic "hotspot" trail is adding fuel to a vigorous scientific debate over the origins of volcano chains...
Petroleum meeting greeted by protesters
Oilsands protesters challenged investors at a Calgary petroleum conference on Monday to drink out of bottles of murky water from Lake Athabasca, which sits near Alberta's major oilsands developments.
Letters: Climate change: time is running out
Letters: Mark Lynas (Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion, June 12) is correct to highlight the dire lack of urgency
Global Impact Of Urbanization Threatening World's Biodiversity And Natural Resources
A new study has examined the effect of staggering urban growth on nature and people that finds if we don't improve urban planning now, we may lose some animals, plants...
First farmers made 'lucky beads'
Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
Web Site Shows Daily Tornadoes Across the Country
A Web site developed at the University of Michigan shows where tornados hit the United States each day. At www.tornadopaths.org, visitors can zoom in to see a city, or zoom...
NBC, WCSN to create new Olympic sports network
(AP) -- NBC Sports and World Championship Sports Network are forming a partnership to create a network that airs Olympic sports.
Quake reconstruction efforts 'need careful evaluation'
Reconstruction efforts in China's quake-hit regions will only be sustained with strategic scientific and environmental evaluation, warn experts.
Gulf of Mexico water quality studied
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. governmental task force has released a plan that involves state and federal officials in reducing hypoxia in the northern Gulf of...
The future is wireless, Rogers tells telecom summit
The sixth annual Canadian Telecom Summit kicked off on Monday with Rogers Communications stressing that the future of the industry would be all about wireless.