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Australians return 11 stranded whales to sea

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(AP) -- Rescuers returned 11 pilot whales to sea Sunday, a day after a pod of 64 mothers and calves were found stranded on a beach in southeastern Australia, wildlife officials said.


Urban growers go high-tech to feed city dwellers

November 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.


Invasive mussel confirmed in Utah's Electric Lake

November 20, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Trouble-making zebra mussels have arrived in Utah. But not where they were expected to show up. Electric Lake is Utah's first body of water where the damaging, nonnative mussels have been confirmed, ...


Dems look to stop endangered species rule changes

November 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- With the Bush administration on the verge of relaxing regulations protecting endangered species, Democratic leaders are looking at ways to overturn any last-minute rule changes.


US biologists: 3 common pesticides harm salmon

November 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don't reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday.


Tiger cub dies after rare blood transfusion

November 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- A 7-month-old wild tiger died Tuesday in a central Indian zoo, two days after veterinarians tried to save the cub with a rare blood transfusion, officials said.


Rare blood transfusion attempted on tiger cub

November 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion in an attempt to save a 7-month-old wild tiger that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India. The female cub received the ...


Darwin's mockingbirds featured in London exhibit

November 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Two dead birds, one big idea. Mockingbirds collected by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands may not be the most visually exciting part of an exhibition that opened Friday at the Natural History ...


Hawaii switching to digital TV early for the birds

November 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird.


Stars in the sea: Ocean census finds new wonders

November 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty water and a carpet of tiny crustaceans on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor ...


French scientists discover new species of gecko

November 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.