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Grounded Ship Leaves Huge Scar on Barrier Reef
Chinese Ship that Ran Aground and Leaked Oil Cut a 2-mile Scar into the Shoal and May Have Imperiled Marine Life
McCormick fajitas seasoning mix recalled
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the voluntary recall of McCormick-brand fajitas seasoning mix because of a labeling error.
Coastal California City Turns to Desalination to Quench Its Thirst
When Sand City, Calif., officially opens the spigot to the state's first full-scale seawater desalination facility Wednesday, residents throughout the city will begin tapping into the Pacific Ocean...
Video: Obama on W. Va. Mine Disaster
President Obama sent condolences to the families of the miners who perished in an explosion at a Montcoat, W. Va. mine.
Arctic thaw frees overlooked greenhouse gas: study
OSLO (Reuters) - Thawing permafrost can release nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, a contributor to climate change that has been largely overlooked in the Arctic, a study showed...
Making Energy Crops More Earth Friendly
A new review in the Agronomy Journal suggests that crop residue removal from corn, wheat, and grain sorghum may not be the most earth-friendly source of biomass for cellulosic ethanol...
World's 4th Largest Lake Nearly Dried Up
Central Asia's Aral Sea Almost Totally Evaporated, Called One of Earth's Most Shocking Disasters by Head of U.N.
Parts of Pakistan using Iranian gas
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 5 (UPI) -- The government in Islamabad gave special permission to the provincial government of Balochistan to use gas imported from a leg of a pipeline...
Ban laments decline of Aral Sea
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, April 5 (UPI) -- Declining water levels in the Aral Sea in Central Asia are a sign that action is needed to save the Earth's natural resources,...
Hostile volcanic lake teems with life
Microbes thriving in salty, alkali waters containing arsenic.
Butler does it - again - and will play for title
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Kansas - gone. Kentucky - gone. Syracuse - gone. Little Butler - still going....
Australian floods help ease the 'Big Dry'
For Australian farmers who have struggled to make a living in southern Queensland as their crops died and their dams ran empty during years of drought, recent floods have helped...
The Boss: Another Cousteau Working to Save the Waters
At Blue Legacy International, Alexandra Cousteau is continuing the environmental advocacy of Jacques Cousteau, her grandfather, and her father, Philippe.
Fishing banned at Sea of Galilee
JERUSALEM, April 3 (UPI) -- The biblical tradition of fishing in the Sea of Galilee has been suspended by Israeli officials who say the waters have been overfished.
Frozen Fish Help Reel in Germany's Wind Power
Renewable energy leader Germany sometimes has more wind power than it can handle, but a fishing community on the North Sea coast is exploring a creative solution for storing all...
Iceland Volcano Pictures: Eruption Sparks Tourist Boom
A cascading "lavafall," hikes to cooling flows, and fiery fountains have helped boost tourism around Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
Ecologists receive mixed news from fossil record
Palaeontologists can't always get what they want, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, but sometimes they can get what they need, according to a study that will appear in the May...
Why There Have Been So Many Earthquakes Lately
Actually, there is an explanation for this. What most people don't realize is that 1) the oceanic plate being subducted at convergent plate boundaries is much denser and thicker than the...
Study reveals that logging debris suppresses development of an invasive competitor, Scotch broom
Countless studies and reports exist describing how a landscape is impacted after logging Douglas-fir: What is the impact on the soil? Should one leave the debris in place? Pile it?...
Taking a close look at the Everglades restoration
(PhysOrg.com) -- Freshman Sarah Bluher spent part of her spring break in the Florida Everglades collecting field samples from an airboat in a water conservation area.
Savvy injection molding
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the help of neural networks, in which complex algorithms are used to monitor critical process steps, engineers are paving the way for zero-defect production in the area...
Even in the Desert, Plants Feel the Heat of Global Warming
A University of Arizona ecologist studies how climate change is impacting vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.
Plan calls for permanent U.N. climate host
LONDON, April 2 (UPI) -- A plan to find a permanent home for U.N. climate meetings could result in more work getting done and a reduction in travel emissions,...
TNK-BP yields up at fire-damaged refinery
MOSCOW, April 2 (UPI) -- One of the oldest refineries in Russia has returned to full production yields following fire damage to a crude distillation unit, oil company TNK-BP...
Comet trail may have caused last ice age
CARDIFF, England, April 2 (UPI) -- A thousand-year freeze that began in 11,000 B.C. may have been caused by thousands of atomic-force chunks from a disintegrating comet, a British...
Thousands of Quakes Strike Glaciers Every Day
Icequakes shake glaciers in Alaska every day, sending out seismic waves similar to earthquakes.
Despite Mild Winter and Few Hunters, Seal Pups Face Threats
The same warm weather that has kept hunters’ boats in harbors has also reduced the amount of ice, a main habitat for harp seals.
E.P.A. Moves to Limit Water Pollution From Mining
The new guidelines will benchmark the permissible levels of runoff introduced into Appalachian waterways as a result of an aggressive form of coal extraction.