Weather News

• China pledges to end hardship for stranded travelers 06/28/08
       GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China has turned its battle against brutal winter weather into a propaganda push to comfort millions of cold and stranded citizens,...
• Cold marches east; more rain/snow ahead 06/28/08
       Northeast Big temperature changes are on the way for the Northeast today, although not quite as dramatic as what happened yesterday and early this morning in t...
• Beijing said to have some success preventing rain 06/28/08
       BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has successfully managed to stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony at August's Olympic Game...
• Strong quake rocks Indonesia's Maluku, tsunami alert lifted 06/28/08
        (AFP) - A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Wednesday, prompting the brief issuing of a tsunami alert, t...
• Powerful winds will gradually abate 06/28/08
       The powerful winds sweeping over the Great Lakes and Northeast in the wake of a strong cold front will begin to relent this afternoon and evening. Similarly, th...

Space & Astronomy

• Space Arms Race Heats Up Overnight 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 bel...
• Scientists: Meteor likely disintegrated 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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...

Animals & Pets

• Junta moves zoo animals in Myanmar 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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...

Dinosaurs & Fossils

• Brazil finds fossil of crocodile 'missing link' 06/28/08
       RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the "missing link" between prehistoric and...
• Brazil finds fossil of missing link to crocodile 06/28/08
       RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a &quo...
• New species of prehistoric flying reptile found in China: study 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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 06/28/08
       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...

Biotechnology

• EU orders China to prove that rice is GMO free 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers are considering changes to laws on stem cell research as pressure grows for an easing of restrictions that local scientists ...

Energy

• Saturnian moon has more energy than Earth's oil and gas reserves 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 nea...
• Bill Clinton campaigns for wife in Ohio 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 ...

Environment

• EPA maps plan to ease Colo. flood threat 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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 06/27/08
       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...