Archive for April, 2008

Protection for birds weighed in western areas of energy (AP)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

This April 2007 photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife shows a male and female sage grouse in the mountains near Reno Nev. As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gets ready to re-examine whether the greater sage grouse deserves federal protection, Shawn Espinosa and other state wildlife biologists across the West are frantically looking for the bird and the traditional mating grounds known as leks where they have lived for centuries. (AP Photo/Nevada Department of Wildlife, Kim Toulouse) AP - The fate of basic industries across the Intermountain West - grazing, mining, energy - could soon be at least partially tied to that of a bird the size of a hen.

Reno urges prepare for the worst earthquakes continue (AP)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A man who said his name was Juan cleans up the groceries that toppled from the shelves at Save Mart in Northwest Reno after Friday night's strong earthquake April 25, 2008. The quake had a preliminary reading of 4.7 and is the latest of 100's of earthquakes that have swarmed the northwest Reno area in the past six weeks with the quakes getting progressively stronger. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette Journal - Marilyn Newton) AP - Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for an event as the highest noise zone continued on Saturday after the biggest earthquake in a two-month series of temblors.

EU GPS satellite into orbit (AP)

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

In this picture made available by the European Space Agency, a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the satellite GIOVE-B lifts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The European Union launched Sunday the second satellite in its much-delayed Galileo navigation system designed to rival the American GPS system. (AP Photo/ESA, HO)  NO SALES AP - An experimental satellite of a much delayed EU rival to the United States’ GPS navigation system into orbit blasted Sunday after a successful launch the top of a Russian rocket, Russian and European space agencies said.

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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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