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Today's Science News: States fail in latest prairie dog report card Wreck of renowned British warship found in Channel Melting glacier shows heat under Alaska volcano Obama urged not to backburner climate change Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic France introduces high-tech forecasts for ski champs Birds cause emergency landings, aborted takeoffs Japanese whalers accused of injuring activists Dino-right! Fix is in for misnamed Texas dinosaur Protests against foreign energy workers spread Stem Cell Transplants Help MS Victims States fail in latest prairie dog report card Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:17 pm PST AP - While groundhogs will get all the attention Monday, a report being issued by an environmental group says their cousins, the prairie dogs, are in dire straits across the West. Full Story Top Wreck of renowned British warship found in Channel Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:10 am PST AP - Florida deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: A legendary British man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago. Full Story Top Melting glacier shows heat under Alaska volcano Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:22 am PST AP - Geologists monitoring Mount Redoubt for signs of a possible eruption noticed that a hole in the glacier clinging to the north side of the volcano had doubled in size overnight — and now spans the length of two football fields. Full Story Top Obama urged not to backburner climate change Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:01 pm PST AP - Don't put off action on global warming just because times are lean — that's the message Al Gore, world environmental leaders and U.S. executives sent Friday to President Barack Obama. Full Story Top Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:46 am PST LiveScience.com - The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did. Full Story Top France introduces high-tech forecasts for ski champs Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:26 pm PST AFP - Around 200,000 spectators are expected to descend here for the World Ski Championships that open on Monday, and organisers are counting on weather forecasters to accurately predict what the French Alps might throw their way. Full Story Top Birds cause emergency landings, aborted takeoffs Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:40 am PST AP - Commercial airline crews reported more than two dozen emergency landings, aborted takeoffs or other hair-raising incidents due to collisions with birds in the past two years, according to a confidential database managed by NASA. Full Story Top Japanese whalers accused of injuring activists Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:27 pm PST AFP - Japanese whalers were accused Monday of injuring two anti-whaling activists in a high seas clash in the Antarctic and of deploying a new "military grade" acoustic weapon against protesters. Full Story Top Dino-right! Fix is in for misnamed Texas dinosaur Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:57 pm PST AP - Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas. Sure, it was a plant-noshing herbivore in a fiercely barbecue-proud state, but the sauropod dwarfed most other dinos and lumbered with a 20-ton swagger. Full Story Top Protests against foreign energy workers spread Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:22 am PST AFP - Wildcat strikes against foreign workers spread through oil refineries and other energy facilities, fuelled by fears of rising job cuts. Full Story Top Stem Cell Transplants Help MS Victims Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Stem cell transplantation seems to stop and, in some cases, undo neurological damage in people with multiple sclerosis, a small study shows. Full Story Top

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