AP - A city outside California has, for the first time, was named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories of the association American Lung used to determine the most polluted cities in the country.
AP - Low-oxygen areas where marine life is threatened or are unable to survive increasingly as the oceans are heated by global warming, researchers warn.
AP - The happy babbling that will entertain parents as their children try to imitate speech happens to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before dominating his song adults, researchers report in the Friday edition of Science magazine.
AP - The vessel was loaded with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins - and guns to defend themselves of pirates. But it has nothing to protect it from the fierce face of a bleak stretch of weather particularly inhospitable coast of Africa, and that sank 500 years ago. Now it has become apparent, met with De Beers by geologists to prospect for diamonds outside Namibia.
Reuters - Investigators looking for genes that increase the risk of osteoporosis found seven different sequences associated with the bone” - thinning disease, and a team found two that could predict the risk of 20 per cent of people.
AP - People will be paying higher energy prices under a bill Senate to limit greenhouse gases, but how much will depend on how well the country can move from fossil fuel combustion, an analysis of Department of Energy said Tuesday.
AFP - South African 13-year moratorium on the culling of elephants was set to be lifted on Thursday to combat an increase in the population, despite an outcry from activists of animal rights.
Reuters - peace activists and attacked a large inflatable balloon deflated housing a satellite dish in a top secret New Zealand spy base on Wednesday in protest over U.S. military actions.
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LiveScience.com - One of the first humans with a wide mouth chomping strangely prefers to eat soft, squishy fruit, new analysis suggests tooth.