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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...
Watch Out for Yellowstone Bears - They're Hungry
Scientists Predict Grizzlies Will Have More Dangerous Meetings with Humans in a Year That's Already the Deadliest on Record
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...
Crews wrestle with pipe stuck in BP well
Removing it should clear the way for finishing the final seal.Engineering crews working on the BP oil well disaster Monday continued efforts to remove an obstacle to their undersea endgame:...
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...
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.
Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face
(AP) -- Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant...
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.
The Bay Citizen: In Battle of the Weeklies, Local Focus Is the Key
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a 44-year-old alternative weekly newspaper, is thinner than it used to be, but it remains determinedly local, and that is its major strength.
Free swim lessons target Ontario drownings
Free water-safety courses have popped up across Ontario this summer, mainly in response to the large number of drowning deaths in the province this year.
We've gone into the ecological red | Andrew Simms
On 21 August our environmental resource budget ran out. Now we're living beyond the planet's means to support usAt the weekend, Saturday 21 August to be precise, the world as a whole...