| Doorstep Astronomy: Spot 5 Planets(Joe RaoSPACE.com Skywatching ColumnistSPACE.com joe Raospace.com Skywatching Columnistspace.com 2009-02-20 09:36) | | This month you'll have an opportunity to see all five naked-eye planets – but not all at once. Two of them are evening objects, while the other three are clustered together low in the east-southeast sky deep in the dawn twilight. The planets move ar... |
| Exxon Valdez oil spill still taking toll on killer whales(By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News 2009-02-10 03:10) | | ANCHORAGE — An already fragile population of killer whales that hunts Prince William Sound never recovered from the Exxon Valdez oil spill and is doomed to die off, biologists said this week. Marine mammal biologist Craig Matkin of Homer has tracked... |
| Military repels attack on gas plant in Nigeria(By EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer Edward Harris, Associated Press Writer 2009-02-10 03:09) | | LAGOS, Nigeria – Assailants attacked a natural gas production plant in southern Nigeria on Saturday, but the military said its forces repelled the onslaught and killed three gunmen. The region's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation... |
| 2 federal agencies settle global warming lawsuit(By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer Terence Chea, Associated Press Writer 2009-02-07 01:10) | | SAN FRANCISCO – The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming. The Export-Import Bank of the United States and the Overseas... |
| Republicans urge Obama to OK offshore oil drilling(By Tom Doggett Tom Doggett 2009-02-07 01:09) | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Republicans on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama not to close areas off the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling. The Republican lawmakers asked Obama to allow a 5-year plan proposed... |
| Biogen says Tysabri goals "difficult" to achieve( 2009-02-07 01:09) | | BOSTON (Reuters) – Biogen Idec Inc backed off its previous forecast that 100,000 patients would be on its multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri by the end of 2010 and reported a new case of the brain disease PML. Biogen Chief Executive Jim Mullen said on... |
| Fires to follow floods as wild weather hits Australia(by Amy Coopes Amy Coopes 2009-02-07 01:09) | | SYDNEY (AFP) – Eastern Australia braced for more fires and floods Friday as the south faced extreme heat and heavy rain threatened to swell floodwaters ravaging the north. A once-in-a-century heatwave was forecast to intensify over the weekend with... |
| Over 218,000 still without power in Midwest( 2009-02-05 21:25) | | NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 218,000 homes and businesses remained without power Wednesday morning after snow and ice storms January 27-28 left almost 1.7 million customers in the dark from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, local utilities reported. About... |
| Columbus Space Lab Revives European Weightless Research(Peter B. de SeldingSpace News Staff WriterSPACE.com peter B. De Seldingspace News Staff Writerspace. 2009-02-04 05:15) | | PARIS - With fresh money from its member governments and an apparently renewed enthusiasm among microgravity scientists, the European Space Agency (ESA) expects to send out requests for ideas by midyear on how to use Europe's Columbus laboratory aboard th... |
| Blizzard of anger follows London snowstorm(By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer David Stringer, Associated Press Writer 2009-02-03 18:40) | | LONDON – Britain's capital cleared the soggy remnants of a paralyzing snowstorm as businesses on Tuesday counted the multibillion-pound (-dollar) cost. An estimated 6 million people skipped work Monday when the largest snowstorm to hit London in 18... |
| Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic(LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Livescience Stafflivescience.com 2009-02-02 00:38) | | The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did. The discovery, detailed today in the journal Geology, suggests animals migrated from Asia to North America not around Alaska, as once... |
| In western Ky., still stuck in ice storm's grip(By BRUCE SCHREINER and JOHN MORENO GONZALES, Associated Press Writers Bruce Schreiner And John Moren 2009-02-01 04:35) | | AURORA, Ky. – The power had been out since Tuesday at Lakeland Arbor Village, an independent-living community, and some of the food was spoiling, at least the stuff anyone really wanted to eat. "I still have some potted meat, but I'm getting kind of... |
| KY deploys full Army Nat'l Guard for storm cleanup(By BRUCE SCHREINER and BETSY TAYLOR, Associated Press Writers Bruce Schreiner And Betsy Taylor, Asso 2009-02-01 03:36) | | MAYFIELD, Ky. – Gov. Steve Beshear deployed every last one of his Army National Guardsmen on Saturday, with his state still reeling after a deadly ice storm encrusted it this week. More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentu... |
| Rain saves Afghanistan's World Cup dream( 2009-01-31 08:44) | | BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Afghanistan's dreams of playing at the 2011 World Cup were saved by torrential rain which swept across the Argentine capital on Friday. Their final World Cricket League Division Three match against the Cayman Islands was abandon... |
| Report to detail, address coastal pollution in NY(By MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press Writer Michael Virtanen, Associated Press Writer 2009-01-30 20:16) | | ALBANY, N.Y. – Faced with more beaches closures, depleted shellfish beds and sharply reduced commercial fisheries, New York is poised to act against a rising tide of unhealthy coastal waters. Officials were scheduled to release a plan Thursday to ex... |
| Attempts to Contact Aliens Date Back More Than 150 Years(Michael SchirberAstrobiology MagazineSPACE.com michael Schirberastrobiology Magazinespace.com 2009-01-30 20:15) | | The desire to contact intelligent life on other planets is much older than the UFO craze and the SETI movement. Several 19th century scientists contemplated how we might communicate with possible Martians and Venusians. These early proposals - which preda... |
| Satellite Firm Faces New Lawsuit Faulting Losses(Barbara Opall-RomeSpace News CorrespondentSPACE.com barbara Opall-romespace News Correspondentspace. 2009-01-14 13:35) | | A new lawsuit, a failed acquisition bid and the loss of its anchor Israeli Ministry of Defense operating partner are the latest complications confronting ImageSat International (ISI) and its Eros satellite program. The latest lawsuit, by stakeholders led... |
| Rare tree kangaroo species has twins at Neb. zoo(By JEAN ORTIZ, Associated Press Writer Jean Ortiz, Associated Press Writer 2009-01-11 12:48) | | OMAHA, Neb. – Nebraska zookeepers are seeing double and they're thrilled about it, with the births of twins to a rare species of tree kangaroo. Twin joeys were born last month at the Lincoln Children's Zoo to Matschie's tree kangaroos Milla and her... |
| Russian Girl Creates Next Soyuz Crew Patch(Robert Z. PearlmanSPACE.com Robert Z. Pearlmanspace.com 2008-12-31 09:56) | | A 12-year-old girl from Moscow will see her artwork launch to space in March 2009 as the winner of an international contest to design an insignia for the next cosmonaut crew. Anna Chibiskova was honored on Monday at a ceremony held at Russia's mission con... |
| Ship firm calls jail term for tanker crew a 'disgrace'( 2008-12-13 02:53) | | SEOUL (AFP) – Managers of a Hong Kong supertanker whose crew chiefs were jailed over South Korea's worst oil spill have blasted the decision as a "disgrace and insult" to the world shipping community. An international union federation sepa... |
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