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Iconic skyscrapers find new luster by going green

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:58:57 -0400

When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy. They also needed tenants.

First Asian elephant born in Australian zoo

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:54:15 -0400

A 265-pound (120-kilogram), big-eared and long-nosed bundle of joy was welcomed in Australia as an important step in helping to save the endangered Asian elephant.

Australian dinosaur that lived 98M years ago found

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:27:22 -0400

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.

Thai zoo's 1st baby panda goes on display

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:52:41 -0400

Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth six weeks ago.

Plant disease hits eastern veggies early, hard

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:03:19 -0400

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Global warming now shrinking sheep

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:40:23 -0400

Global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.

NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:18 -0400

NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.

Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:01:23 -0400

Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.

Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:06:24 -0400

Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world’s coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday.

Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:05:02 -0400

Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs more work.