AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said.
AP - In a cramped, humid laboratory in London, mosquitoes swarming in stacked, net-covered cages are being scrutinized for keys to controlling malaria. Scientists have genetically modified hundreds of them, hoping to stop them from spreading the killer disease.
Reuters - Eight-cylinder luxury cars
will rumble along Jeddah's highways guzzling cheap Saudi
gasoline as energy powers hold emergency talks in the Red Sea
port this weekend to brake the free-wheeling rise in oil
prices.
AFP - Japanese police on Friday arrested two Greenpeace members who had alleged corruption in the country's controversial whaling programme, accusing the activists of stealing whale meat.
AFP - The French-US oceanographic monitoring satellite Jason 2 was successfully launched Friday from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta 2 rocket, NASA TV showed.
AP - An aide to Gov. Chet Culver said Thursday that Republican presidential candidate John McCain ignored the governor's request to cancel a campaign visit amid a massive flood recovery effort in the state.
LiveScience.com - With 8 inches of hail falling in parts of Nebraska this week and
Arizona reaching triple digit temperatures last week, it may seem
rather arbitrary to call June 20 the first day of the summer this year,
aka the summer solstice. But scientists really do have a reason. -- read full article
AP - Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists on Friday on suspicion of stealing about 50 pounds of whale meat that the environmentalists said had been illegally siphoned by whalers from government-backed hunts.
AP - Officials on Thursday abruptly canceled a state program to spray chemicals to combat crop-eating moth in urban areas after months of public uproar over its unclear effects on the environment and human health.
AP - Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator said Thursday.
AFP - A British minister came under attack from environmentalists Thursday after suggesting that genetically-modified crops could help ease the global food crisis.
AFP - Oil prices slumped on Thursday after Saudi Arabia said it planned to boost daily output by 200,000 barrels to help cool record-breaking energy costs which are hurting consumers globally.
Reuters - Iranian and
Western wildlife experts are working together to save rare
cheetahs from extinction in this arid, mountainous region,
despite a nuclear row between their governments.
