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    Tony Blair urges action on climate change (AP)

    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks about a report, 'Breaking the Climate Deadlock,' he presented to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, host of the G8 summit, at a meeting of  The Climate Group, a nonprofit organization Blair is part of, in Tokyo, Friday, June 27, 2008. The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)AP - The world already knows that global warming is a serious problem and the time has come for politicians and experts to come together to map out a practical solution, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.


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    Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:20:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Britain outlines wind farm expansion plans (AFP)

    A wind farm. Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across Britain by 2020 as part of multi-billion pound plans to switch to more sustainable energy sources, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.(AFP/File/Marcel Mochet)AFP - Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across Britain by 2020 as part of multi-billion pound plans to switch to more sustainable energy sources, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:10:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Groups want import ban on polar bear hides lifted (AP)

    Polar bear hides cure on the mountainside of the Eskimo village of Little Diomede, Alaska with Russia's Big Diomede Island on the horizon in this undated file photo. Environmental and animal rights groups have lined up to oppose a lawsuit that seeks to let American sport hunters import hides of polar bears shot legally in Canada. Trophy hunting of U.S. bears in Alaska has been banned since 1972. Bears killed by subsistence hunters are not considered a threat. Safari Club International attorney Doug Burdin said Wednesday June 25, 2008 his organization may join the state of Alaska in suing to overturn the listing but so far has only filed to overturn the ban on importing hides from animals killed in approved populations in Canada. Politicians from Canada's Northwest Territory this week made the same request to Interior Department officials in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)AP - Environmental and animal rights groups are lining up to oppose a lawsuit that seeks to let American sport hunters again import hides of polar bears shot legally in Canada.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:52:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Senate Committee Approves Bill for Extra Shuttle Mission (SPACE.com)
    SPACE.com - The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a NASA authorization bill this week that would forbid the U.S. space agency from retiring the space shuttle before completing all remaining missions, including an additional flight to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station. -- read full article
    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:02:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)
    AP - Weather around the U.S.A. -- read full article
    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:46:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Bird Study Reveals 10 Things You Didn't Know (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Birds are among the most studied and openly stalked animals (by binocular-clad humans), but scientists have just discovered a flock of unexpected new avian facts, based on an analysis of genetic data that yielded an evolutionary tree full of surprises. -- read full article
    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:16:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Authorities hope to shoo dolphins from N.J. rivers (AP)
    AP - The latest visitors to the New Jersey shore are doing what many tourists do: splashing around in the waves with the kids and feasting on seafood. -- read full article
    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:54:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Navy disputes restrictions to protect whales (AP)

    In this 1992 photo released by the International Fund For Animals Welfare (IFAW), a minke whale's head breaks the surface of the water as it swims in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary for whales.  The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is holding its 60th annual meeting in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, June 24, 2008, where Chile's President Michelle Bachelet pushed to permanently ban whaling along Chile's sprawling coast and create a whale sanctuary.  (AP Photo/IFAW)AP - The Navy is challenging Hawaii's authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military representatives say.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:26:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Japan defends 'scientific' whale hunting at IWC (AFP)

    Fishermen butcher a 10metre-long bottlenose whale in Minami-Boso city, east of Tokyo on June 25. Japan has defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission insisting it had yielded important scientific results(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japan defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting here on Wednesday, insisting it had yielded important scientific results.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:19:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    NASA beefs up next-generation moon rocket (AP)

    Steve Cook, manager of the Ares project office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., stands in front of a video screen while discussing rocket design during a media briefing on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. NASA is beefing up the size and of its planned Ares V moon rocket to make it capable of taking more weight to the lunar surface. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP - NASA unveiled a beefed-up redesign of a proposed moon rocket Wednesday, saying the Ares V spacecraft that is to carry astronauts to the lunar surface in 12 years will be around 38 stories tall and carry a heftier load than originally planned.


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    Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:05:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Mass at Philippines ferry site, relatives weep (Reuters)

    U.S. military personnel dive beside the sunken ferry M/V Princess of the Stars in Sibuyan island, central Philippines June 25, 2008. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)Reuters - A Catholic priest said mass over the site of a capsized ferry in the central Philippines on Thursday as divers prepared to bore a hole in the vessel to speed up the retrieval of bodies.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:05:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Gloom and Doom Rule the Baby Boom (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Boomers are tired, overworked, strapped, bummed out and don't expect to get a break. -- read full article
    Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:35:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Fossil of most primitive 4-legged creature found (AP)

    This undated handout artist rendering  provided by Philip Renne shows a Ventastega. Scientists have found the fossil skull of the most primitive four-legged critter in Earth's history, a key point in the evolution from fish to animals that eventually walked on on land. At lower left are two Bothriolepis. (AP Photo/Philip Renne)AP - Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:12:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Scientists think big impact caused two-faced Mars (AP)

    This artists rendition released by Jeffery Andrews-Hanna of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows an impact on the surface of Mars. Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any heavenly body in the solar system. (AP Photo/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jeffery Andrews-Hanna)AP - Why is Mars two-faced? Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any heavenly body in the solar system.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:44:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Project to dissect cocoa genome, protect crop (AP)

    Sarah Levy, owner of Sarah's Pastries and Candies, prepares chocolate covered marshmallows in the kitchen of her store in Chicago, Tuesday, June 10, 2008.  Many analysts say the candy business is likely to fare better than other nonessentials in these economically trying times, even as prices for commodities such as sugar, milk and cocoa have risen. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)AP - Government scientists are launching a five-year project Thursday aimed at safeguarding the world's chocolate supply by dissecting the genome of the cocoa bean.


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    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:30:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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