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 AP - A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters. |
| Clams befouling Tahoe invade Adirondack lake in NY
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 AP - Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area relatively few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline. |
| Earl's path along northeast is not well-worn
(AP)
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| AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief. |
| UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid
(AP)
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| LiveScience.com - Monkeys that prowl the forests of Argentina after dark prefer the light of the full moon, according to a new study. The findings suggest that for some nocturnal monkeys, moonlight trumps their internal biological clock for setting sleep schedules. |
| Monkeys Caught Monkeying Around During Full Moon
(LiveScience.com)
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 AP - What now for the Gulf? |
| What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate
(AP)
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| Reuters - The U.S. government on Friday launched an investigation into Mariner Energy Inc's Gulf of Mexico platform fire, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. |
| Government probes Mariner platform fire
(Reuters)
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| SPACE.com - A Chinese satellite may have intentionally nudged another spacecraftduring secretive space maneuvers in near-Earth orbit, according to analysts. |
| Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers
(SPACE.com)
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| Reuters - A biotechnology company's genetically engineered salmon are as safe to eat as other Atlantic salmon, U.S. regulators said as they weighed approval of the first DNA-altered animal for Americans'dinner plates. |
| Biotech salmon safe for eating: FDA
(Reuters)
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 AP - A Tasmanian devil named Cedric, once thought to be immune to a contagious facial cancer threatening the iconic creatures with extinction, has been euthanized after succumbing to the disease, researchers said Wednesday. |
| Famed Tasmanian devil euthanized after tumor found
(AP)
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 AFP - Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo on Friday likened Japan's treatment of two of its anti-whaling activists to the tactics of the former apartheid regime he once campaigned against in his native South Africa. |
| Japan whale meat case echoes apartheid: Greenpeace chief
(AFP)
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| LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramaticallychanged the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, accordingto a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans willlive in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, becausethe loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems. |
| Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
(LiveScience.com)
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 AP - BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon. |
| BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well
(AP)
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 AP - Hurricane Earl had lost some of its strength and was at category 2 strength with winds up to 105 mph early Friday off North Carolina's coast. |
| The nation's weather
(AP)
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| SPACE.com - As the summer night sky draws nearits close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchersequipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. |
| Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall
(SPACE.com)
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| Time.com - A new study finds people who are genetically predisposed to obesity may benefit most from physical activity |
| Exercise Can Counteract Obesity Genes, Says Study
(Time.com)
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