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Mar 19, 2010 11:39:30 GMT
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| AP - Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno. |
Mar 20, 2010 02:35:28 GMT
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| AP - The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S. |
Mar 20, 2010 02:36:43 GMT
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Mar 19, 2010 23:50:15 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Qatar that a proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna had failed to pass. Japan consumes around three-quarters of the globe’s bluefin tuna catch, with almost all of it served raw as sushi and sashimi, of which it is the most sought-after variety. |
Mar 19, 2010 14:19:05 GMT
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| The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Brazilian schoolchildren and city and state workers were given the afternoon off to gather in Rio de Janeiro today and protest a federal law that would reduce the amount of petroleum royalties the energy-rich state now gets. |
Mar 17, 2010 19:14:00 GMT
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Mar 19, 2010 20:31:18 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100320/ts_afp/britainitalyhealthresearchstemcell"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100320/capt.photo_1269051480123-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=In8qLJHkJ0J8DtPq5h.fHQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A researcher is seen preparing stem cells for culture at a medical study center. British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Darren Hauck)" border="0" /></a>AFP - British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 20, 2010 04:36:49 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cloak_of_invisibility"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100318/i/r275696966.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OPCLjbeGFIP_pk71Julbxg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Gold bars are displayed to be photographed at bullion house in Mumbai December 3, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta" border="0" /></a>AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 18, 2010 20:05:33 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100319/wl_asia_afp/australiajapanwhaling"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100319/capt.photo_1269006067773-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=mX1dBCXb9zQq7dnfB3GdPg--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="The Japanese harpoon vessel Shonan Maru No 2 shadows the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica in 2009. Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.(AFP/Sea Shepherd/File/Laurens de Groot)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 19, 2010 16:12:25 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_re_us/us_smithsonian_human_evolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100317/capt.dd859b36de3744f5adc862b9d3177ae8-dd859b36de3744f5adc862b9d3177ae8-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hWhHIJZxRXfXh18X93kxFQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Part of the exhibit comparing the brain size of early humans is seen inside the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 17, 2010 20:54:50 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100319/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimaltiger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100319/capt.photo_1269001747852-1-0.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=8YEH_EdjyYRj3zrH0RqOcg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="A Sumatran at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC. Indonesian conservationists said they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of hunting.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Indonesian conservationists said on Friday they had caught red-handed a 92-year-old man who had admitted to killing dozens of critically endangered Sumatran tigers over a lifetime of hunting.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 19, 2010 12:30:00 GMT
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| AP - Most of the nation will see generally pleasant conditions on Friday, but there are some clouds, rain and snow in store for the western Plains and the Rockies. |
Mar 19, 2010 09:39:01 GMT
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Mar 19, 2010 20:31:17 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/sc_afp/bulgariafarmlawbiotech"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100318/capt.photo_1268932667589-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=pGU4.6gZ88f2CKmjfAYwUg--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Genetically modified corn cobs are seen at a corn field. Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban.</p><br clear="all"/> |
Mar 18, 2010 17:18:19 GMT
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Mar 17, 2010 16:47:16 GMT
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_flood_threat_forecasts"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100319/capt.fcce4dc4160948e5b0022d133132da70-fcce4dc4160948e5b0022d133132da70-0.jpg?x=130&y=63&q=85&sig=fFnwkU8gGTVh3SOGdsl2qw--" align="left" height="63" width="130" alt="National Guard troops patrol the perimeter of flood waters along the Red River, Friday, March 19, 2010, in Fargo, N.D. The rising waters of the Red are expected to crest in Fargo on Sunday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)" border="0" /></a>AP - A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that proved unnecessary in the end because the new prediction was wrong.</p><br clear="all"/> |
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