AFP - OPEC on Thursday cut its long-term estimate for world oil demand, saying consumption by 2030 would be 3.7 percent lower than previously forecast as soaring prices drive efforts to save energy.
AFP - Paris city hall was swamped by 1,600 papier mache pandas on Thursday, part of a WWF campaign to highlight the urgent need to protect the vanishing species.
SPACE.com - A new analysis of an unprecedented
snapshot of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descending to the surface of Mars has
turned up more detail, including a dark spot that is likely the spacecraft's
jettisoned heat shield. -- read full article
AP - The climate phenomena known as La Nina is ending and neutral conditions are expected into the fall, government forecasters said Thursday. The change can affect weather worldwide. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - A vast shelf of ice in Antarctica is hanging on to the continent by
a thread and is not expected to survive, scientists announced today. -- read full article
AP - New Mexico is reaping a revenue windfall because of high prices for oil and natural gas, and a debate is brewing about whether the extra cash should be spent on highways, schools, health care or tax rebates. -- read full article
AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha is moving slowly, but could regain major hurricane status as it heads toward Bermuda. The storm is currently a Category 2.
LiveScience.com - In the new film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," the main character
Hellboy saves the world from trolls, demons, and other strange
netherworld creatures. The cigar-chompin', red-skinned devil-man
doesn't do it just for fun; it's his job. -- read full article
AP - Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect. -- read full article
AP - Crime scene DNA is typically recovered from blood or semen stains, but the DNA that exonerated members of JonBenet Ramsey's family came from invisible skin cells.
Reuters - A top U.S. Democratic senator said in
a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would
consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and
gas drilling.
Reuters - Some odd-looking fish fossils
discovered in the bowels of several European museums may help
solve a lingering question about evolutionary theory, U.S.
researchers said on Wednesday.
AP - A zookeeper's house cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother and is nursing the cub along with her own kittens, the Artis zoo said Wednesday.
