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Wed, Mar 10
In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an akikiki or Kauai creeper is seen in Kauai, Hawaii. The federal government added the akikiki and 47 other plants and animals to the endangered species list Wendesda...
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Wed, Mar 10
A whale is harpooned in the Southern Ocean. A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, the sale of which is strictly banned in the United States, prosecutor...
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by Philip Proefrock
Wed, Mar 10
Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition...
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Wed, Mar 10
A 2005 Toyota Prius, which was in an accident, is seen at a police station in Harrison, New York, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The driver of the Toyota Prius told police that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, a...
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by Stephen Messenger, TreeHugger
Wed, Mar 10
Photo via
Andrew Evans of the National
Geographic.
King
Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance -- but a
recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention.
In what has been describe...
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Wed, Mar 10
RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law Wednesday offshore drilling legislation intended to realize his goal of making Virginia the East Coast's energy superpower.
The bills supporting offshore oil and gas exploration and dir...
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Wed, Mar 10
Khumbu Glacier at Everest-Khumbu region, one of the longest glaciers in the world. A respected international scientific body will conduct the independent review of the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a k...
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Wed, Mar 10
FILE - In this May 15, 2007 file photo, a loggerhead sea turtle swims at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The turtle was first discovered as a hatchling straggler left behind by his nest mates, and was later released back into the Atlan...
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Wed, Mar 10
A man pointing to his unusable fields near a warning for a toxic zone in 2007, still unsafe one year after the discovery of hundreds of tonnes of dumped toxic waste near Abidjan. The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumpin...
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Wed, Mar 10
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change.
Ministers f...
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