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NZealand rescuers save 14 whales from stranded pod
(AP) -- Rescuers who battled exhaustion and darkness succeeded in saving 14 pilot whales from a pod of 74 that stranded on a remote New Zealand beach.
RIM, India will agree on BlackBerry: minister
India and Research In Motion will succeed in negotiating a compromise to keep RIM's BlackBerry service in place in the country, Canadian Federal Trade Minister Peter Van Loan suggests.
Coral bleaching likely in Caribbean this year
According to the NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitoring system, coral bleaching is likely in the Caribbean in 2010. With temperatures above-average all year, NOAA's models show a strong potential for...
Eastern U.S. could see weather 'flip-flop'
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The eastern United States could experience a major weather pattern change from drought to drenching as September moves into "Troptober," forecasters say. ...
Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150-year-old pressed plants
Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful -- and much needed --...
China tops world in catch and consumption of fish
China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new findings. The research ranks the top 20 nations that...
‘Dry water’ could make a big splash commercially
An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
Atmospheric science: A towering experiment
An ambitious project to track greenhouse gases from a perch high above the Amazon forest will provide crucial data — but only if scientists can get it built.
East Africa to boost potential of cassava, potato
Five East African countries have agreed on processing standards for cassava and potato to exploit growing demand for the crops.
2010 Gives West a Respite From Fire
The fire season still has some weeks to go, but it is running neck and neck with the one in 2003 for the title of least severe.
Feature: Science, ‘sceptics’ and spin: framing the climate change debate
Alexendra de Blas investigates and details the role of scientists, deniers and the media in the public climate change debate.
Warming worry shades ozone success
CFC replacements may have helped repair the hole in the ozone layer, but could contribute significantly to climate change
Greenpeace 'occupies' Chevron vessel
LONDON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Environmental activists attached themselves to the anchor of an oil drilling ship, stopping it from heading to the Shetland Islands, Greenpeace said. ...
EU passes natural gas security measures
BRUSSELS, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- European member states are called on to design preventative plans to ensure future natural gas supplies, the European Parliament announced. ...
Earth's pulse felt at hot spots
Enigmatic volcanic hot spots around the world might be pulsating together — like a great planetary heartbeat — at the rates of five and 10 million years, say researchers from...
Titanic sunk by steering mistake, author says
The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing,...
World eyes Arctic oil reserves
Climate change has focussed attention on the economic potential of the Arctic.
Nobelist Walter Kohn to Receive 2010 Prange Prize
Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, who invented the density-functional theory of matter, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and...
Americans Want Environmentally Sustainable Businesses
Americans believe that U.S. business leaders must understand how to manage business in an environmentally sustainable manner to remain globally competitive.
Servers perform well in cooler temperatures
Lots of energy can be saved by using outside air directly for cooling in data centers in the north. In a study by researchers of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology...
Money for Stoves; the Other Pledges?
What happened to the $30 billion in fast-track financing that developed countries pledged for climate-change mitigation and adaptation?
87 percent of gulf open, NOAA says
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- More than 85 percent of U.S. federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are open to commercial and recreational fishing, NOAA announced Wednesday. ...
Malaysian authorities save hundreds of lizards
Malaysian wildlife authorities said Wednesday they had seized 422 clouded monitor lizards being smuggled out of the country and destined for cooking pots in Asia.
L.A. County tests plan for bird-friendly plant maintenance at parks
Officials and environmentalists hope that by trimming trees and cutting vegetation only in winter, they can avoid disturbing birds and their nests in Whittier Narrows.The distress call of a marsh...
Phys Ed: Can Concussions in Kids Cause Problems Later in Life?
Some effects may last for years and very probably are permanent.
Risk of beetle outbreaks rise, along with temperature, in the warming West
The potential for outbreaks of spruce and mountain pine beetles in western North America's forests is likely to increase significantly in the coming decades, according to a study conducted by...
Learning to live on land: How some early plants overcame an evolutionary hurdle
Diversity of life would be impossible if the ancestors of modern plants had stayed in the water with their green algal cousins. Moving onto dry land required major changes to...
130 Feet Above the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Sample the Last Pristine Air on Earth
The Amazon Rainforest, Manaus, Brazil Take a deep breath. via io9 The full ramifications of the Industrial Revolution on this planet may never be known, not because the scope of the those...