AFP - A US-led team of archaeologists said Thursday they had discovered by chance what is believed to be the largest find of Stone Age-era remains ever uncovered in the Sahara Desert.
Reuters - Taiwan has finally approved the import
of two giant pandas offered as a present by China, overcoming
suspicions that delayed their arrival by two years. -- read full article
SPACE.com - NASA
mission managers decided Thursday not to push for earlier launch dates for two
space shuttle missions set to blast off this fall. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Parts of the world's oceans are running low on oxygen, a new study finds.
Fertilizers and other chemical pollutants in river runoff fuel blooms of algae that cause oxygen levels to dip precipitously when they die. A review of research into these so-called "dead zones," detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Science, finds that the number of dead zones has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960's. ... -- read full article
AP - Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans. -- read full article
AP - A Bush administration proposal that would eliminate the input of independent government scientists in some endangered species reviews would be tossed out if Democrat Barack Obama wins the White House, his campaign says.
Reuters - A New Orleans judge on Wednesday
dismissed charges against seven policeman accused of killing
two people on a bridge amid the chaos that followed Hurricane
Katrina in 2005.
LiveScience.com - Two Georgia men claim to have found in the northern woods of that
state something that has been often reported but never proven to exist:
a Bigfoot. -- read full article
AP - Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, scientists said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.
AFP - Prince Charles drew criticism with an outspoken attack on industrial farming Wednesday, warning genetically modified food could be the "biggest disaster environmentally of all time."
