Daily News Alert | Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:03 AM PST |
US, UK scientists draw up list of world's plants
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:59 am PST
 AP - British and U.S. scientists say they've compiled the most comprehensive list of land plant species ever published — a 300,000-species strong compendium that they hope will boost conservation, trade and medicine. Full Story | Top |
Biologists head to bunkers to fight bat disease
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:30 am PST
 AP - Biologist Susi von Oettingen walked into the dark World War II-era military bunker and took out her flashlight. Among the old pipes, wires and machinery parts, she saw some bats hanging from cracks in the cement walls and ceiling. Full Story | Top |
Rig owner refuses to honor oil spill subpoenas
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:58 pm PST
AP - The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is refusing to honor subpoenas from a federal board that has challenged the company's involvement in monitoring the testing of a key piece of equipment that failed to stop the oil spill disaster. Full Story | Top |
Blast levels Detroit-area store, kills 2 employees
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:46 pm PST
 AP - A blast felt miles away leveled a Detroit-area furniture store, where crews rescued the owner from the rubble alive and searched for more than 12 hours before recovering the bodies of a salesman and a clerical worker who were killed in the suspected natural gas explosion. Full Story | Top |
'Zombie' Satellite Comes Back to Life
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:45 pm PST
SPACE.com - A "zombie satellite" that spent months sending out signals while it was adrift in orbit has sprung back to life, resetting itself after its unexplained breakdown in space earlier this year. Full Story | Top |
2010 Reproductive Rights Policy Year in Review
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:01 pm PST
ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Ever since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, abortion has been a hot topic in United States politics. 2010 was no different, as states enacted controversial abortion laws and embryonic stem cell research was ordered to stop and then start again. Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:42 am PST
AP - The main weather producer for the nation on Wednesday was forecast to be be the Pacific storm system that moved ashore Tuesday. This complex system with several pieces of energy was expected to continue to advance eastward and southward, dumping more rain and mountain snow from the coast to the Rockies. Meteorologists expected precipitation coverage to reach the Northern Plains by Thursday morning. Full Story | Top |
Russian Space Officials Punished for Botched Satellite Launch
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:45 pm PST
SPACE.com - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has formally reprimanded the chief of his country's national space agency and fired two other high-ranking space officials over the loss of three state-of-the-art navigation satellites in a botched rocket launch earlier this month. Full Story | Top |
Genomic Fossils Reveal Explosion of Life 3 Billion Years Ago
Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:10 pm PST
LiveScience.com - Life has existed on Earth for roughly 3.5 billion years, but there is very little fossil record left for most of that time. However, two researchers have used modern genomes to look back in time and reconstruct the evolution of ancient cells. Full Story | Top |
Brazil's Petrobras confirms big oil find
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:53 pm PST
 AFP - Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude and gas -- and said the biggest field was being renamed "Lula." Full Story | Top |
Gambian Families Left Homeless by Floods
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:57 pm PST
OneWorld.net - BANJUL, Dec 29 (IPS) - Amie Manneh and her family lived securely in their single-bedroom home in Bundung, 15 kilometers from the capital, Banjul. Then their home was destroyed by heavy rainfall in September. Since then Amie, her husband and six children have been living in the damaged house. Full Story | Top |
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