AP - Conservationists raised the alarm Thursday that lions in Kenya's Amboseli National Park face extinction within a few years unless action is taken to help them. -- read full article
AP - NASA gave shuttle Discovery's astronauts some well-deserved time off Thursday as their flight wound down and the international space station was left farther and farther behind.
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on
Wednesday called on Congress to preserve tax cuts passed by the
Bush administration, approve a free trade agreement with
Colombia and drill for more domestic oil.
AFP - The United States has called for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent bid to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which is accused of slaughtering the creatures.
AFP - Indonesia launched two tsunami alert buoys with US help Wednesday to boost an early warning system for the country worst hit by the 2004 killer wave, the US embassy said.
LiveScience.com - Whether in Canada or the Caribbean, tree leaves don't have to worry about the temperature outside - they have their own built-in climate control that always aims to keep them comfortable, a new study finds.
The long-standing view of plant biologists was that the temperature of a photosynthesizing leaf would be the same as that of the surrounding air. ... -- read full article
AP - Space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station on Wednesday and began its journey home, ending a nine-day visit highlighted by the installation of a new Japanese lab.
AP - Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship. But outside experts expressed caution about the claim.
AP - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.
AFP - A dinosaur bone discovered in Australia has defied prevailing wisdom about how the world's continents separated from a super-continent millions of years ago, a new study published on Tuesday said. -- read full article
AFP - The United States has called for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent bid to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which is accused of slaughtering the creatures.
AFP - The seven astronauts of the US shuttle Discovery bid farewell Tuesday to their three colleagues at the International Space Station after a busy mission to install Japan's first space laboratory.
Reuters - Rising rivers and swollen
reservoirs caused severe flooding across the U.S. Midwest on
Tuesday as residents in the region braced for yet another
drenching.
