AFP - Iran and Gazprom Sunday signed an agreement for the Russian energy giant to help Tehran develop its oil and gas fields, days after Total dropped out of a multi-billion-dollar gas deal.
AP - Bertha weakened into a tropical storm and stalled near Bermuda on Sunday, but forecasters say it might still deal a glancing blow to the Atlantic island.
LiveScience.com - Like people with an accent, snakes from different regions pack
different venom. A new study finds that antivenoms, the drugs created
to combat snake bites in humans, need to take these chemical
differences into account. -- read full article
AP - A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock.
AP - President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
AP - Between acres of aboveground tombs that are this marshy city's way to inter the dead, there is a strip of land that is an empty tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. -- read full article
AP - A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock.
AP - President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
AP - Hurricane Bertha was on course Saturday to create tropical storm conditions in Bermuda as it slowly approached the Atlantic island, forecasters said.
LiveScience.com - Millions of pounds of lead used in hunting, fishing and shooting
sports wind up in the environment each year and can threaten or kill
wildlife, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey. -- read full article
AP - A federal judge has overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drilling near a forest and a river in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. -- read full article
AFP - The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had charged Texas-based El Paso Corporation, a major energy firm, with fraud for improperly overstating its oil and gas reserves to investors.
AP - The nation's second oldest national wildlife refuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is in danger of being lost unless the islands are restored, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday. -- read full article
