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China weather forecasters 10 years behind foreigners: report 02/26/08
China's meteorologists have admitted being 10 years behind world standards, a report said Friday, after a surprise spell of freezing winter weather paralysed th...
NBA stars brighten site of Hurricane Katrina nightmare 02/26/08
Basketball's top stars brought laughter and cheers to the same convention center that was a house of horrors for Hurricane Katrina survivors during a relaxed tr...
Thousands stranded as snow returns to south China 02/26/08
Almost 180,000 people have been stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and cau...
Heavy snowfall, ice wreak havoc in Greece, Turkey 02/26/08
Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures shut down schools, paralyzed traffic and grounded airplanes in Greece and Turkey on Monday. Athens was covered in sever...
Alabama grateful tornado took no lives 02/26/08
PRATTVILLE, Ala. - After touring a neighborhood where some homes were completely destroyed and many others heavily damaged by a tornado, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley ...

Space Arms Race Heats Up Overnight 02/26/08
The U.S. Navy's successful missile hit and apparent destruction of a defunct spy satellite represents a major step forward in the space arms race in the eyes of...
U.S. has high confidence it hit satellite fuel tank 02/26/08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday it was very confident that a spectacular and unprecedented missile strike from a U.S. Navy warship had dest...
Destroyed Satellite's Debris Spotted 02/26/08
Some observers were treated to a light show last night when the Department of Defense destroyed a falling spy satellite. I'm still having a hard time believing ...
Scientists: Meteor likely disintegrated 02/26/08
SPOKANE, Wash. - Despite witness accounts that a meteor that streaked across the Pacific Northwest skies this week struck the Earth, scientists at the Universit...
Haz-mat team on alert for satellite junk 02/26/08
MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. - With haz-mat suits at the ready, a quick response team stood on alert Thursday to head anyplace on Earth that the pieces of a lam...

Junta moves zoo animals in Myanmar 02/26/08
YANGON, Myanmar - First, the civil servants were transferred to Myanmar's newly built capital deep in the countryside. Now, it's time for the rhinos and elephan...
Zoo Atlanta to resume mating pandas 02/26/08
ATLANTA - Zoo Atlanta is hoping to hear the pitter-patter of little panda paws again. Now that giant panda cub Mei Lan is old enough to be weaned, zookeepers ho...
Mystery deaths halt Bengal tiger tracking plan 02/26/08
DHAKA (AFP) - Wildlife rangers in Bangladesh said Saturday they have stopped tracking Royal Bengal tigers due to the mystery death of two of the critically enda...
Beef industry, animal rights groups duel 02/26/08
DENVER - The cattle industry and animal rights groups bickered over the treatment of beef destined for U.S. dinner plates a day after secret video triggered the...
Antarctic census set to reveal new species: scientists 02/26/08
SYDNEY (AFP) - An international project to document the sea life of Antarctica is likely to reveal new species among the dinner-plate sized sea spiders and othe...

Brazil finds fossil of crocodile 'missing link' 02/26/08
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the missing link between prehistoric and present-day...
Brazil finds fossil of missing link to crocodile 02/26/08
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a miss...
New species of prehistoric flying reptile found in China: study 02/26/08
CHICAGO (AFP) - Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday sa...
New Duck-Billed Dino Discovered in Mexico 02/26/08
A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature, dubbed ...
Crested beach bum dinosaur found in Mexico 02/26/08
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventy-two million years ago, a dinosaur with a sail-shaped crest on the top of its head lived at a Mexican seashore, munching plants an...

EU orders China to prove that rice is GMO free 02/26/08
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission demanded Tuesday that China provide proof that rice products it is sending to the EU do not contain a genetically modif...
Poland sticking to planned GMO livestock fodder ban: ministry 02/26/08
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland is sticking to plans to ban the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in livestock fodder, despite an earlier rethink, the agricult...
Brazil authorizes genetically modified crops 02/26/08
BRASILIA (AFP) - Brazil's National Biosecurity Council on Tuesday authorized the planting and sale of two types of genetically modified corn, angering some rura...
Top scientists gather for debate on 21st century challenges 02/26/08
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AFP) - Burning public health issues, cloned animals and the dangers of climate change will top the agenda at a conference drawing some 10...
Germany considers changing stem cell laws 02/26/08
BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers are considering changes to laws on stem cell research as pressure grows for an easing of restrictions that local scientists ...

Saturnian moon has more energy than Earth's oil and gas reserves 02/27/08
PARIS (AFP) - Imagine a place awash with more hydrocarbons than a Texan oilman can dream of and where no one has staked a single claim -- all that energy is jus...
Shell sets out vision of energy future 02/27/08
LONDON (AFP) - Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell unveiled its vision of the world's future energy sources Thursday, suggesting two scenarios where policy either remai...
Oceans eyed as new energy source 02/27/08
DANIA BEACH, Fla. - Just 15 miles off Florida's coast, the world's most powerful sustained ocean current the mighty Gulf Stream rushes by at nearly 8.5 billion ...
Bill Clinton campaigns for wife in Ohio 02/27/08
TOLEDO, Ohio - Former President Clinton told hundreds of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters on Sunday that her campaign for the Democratic presidential nominat...
Venezuela asks ExxonMobil to talk, drop legal cases 02/27/08
CARACAS, Feb 19, 2008 (AFP) - Venezuela has asked US oil giant ExxonMobil to resume World Bank-sponsored talks to resolve a nationalization dispute and to drop ...

EPA maps plan to ease Colo. flood threat 02/27/08
DENVER - The Environmental Protection Agency said it could be a month or two before crews pump water from a crumbling tunnel where officials fear more than a bi...
Bhopal gas leak survivors begin protest march to New Delhi 02/27/08
NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic was...
Brazil hosts climate change forum 02/27/08
BRASILIA, Brazil - Encouraged that all major U.S. presidential candidates vow to protect the environment, lawmakers from industrialized nations and big emerging...
China, India speed climate change: Australian report 02/27/08
SYDNEY (AFP) - The economic rise of China and India means climate change is occurring faster than previously thought, making efforts to fix the problem more urg...
Japan to consider carbon cap-and-trade system: officials 02/27/08
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan will study introducing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Thursday, as the business community hinted it wil...

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