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Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm
(AP)
AP - When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.
03/20/2010 - 12:56 PM
Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
(AP)
 AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
03/19/2010 - 06:39 AM
Nevada wild-horse roundup death toll rises
(AP)
AP - Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.
03/19/2010 - 09:35 PM
Why Spring Starts Today
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Today is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It is no guarantee of spring-like weather, but
officially the season's start comes around at the same time each year nonetheless.
03/20/2010 - 11:32 AM
Massive sandstorm turns Beijing's streets yellow
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Tons of sand from deserts in China's interior blew into Beijing Saturday, shrouding China's capital in a yellow-orange haze that authorities warned made the air quality "hazardous."
03/20/2010 - 02:17 AM
Rio protests: Sharing Brazil's oil revenues will hurt 2016 Olympics
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Brazilian schoolchildren and city and state workers were given the afternoon off to gather in Rio de Janeiro today and protest a federal law that would reduce the amount of petroleum royalties the energy-rich state now gets.
03/17/2010 - 02:14 PM
Crippled Mars Rover is Chilled, But Still Alive
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it
prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than
ever before.
03/19/2010 - 03:31 PM
Boy receives pioneering stem cell surgery
(AFP)
 AFP - British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.
03/20/2010 - 03:42 AM
Arizona state employee fired over jaguar capture
(AP)
AP - The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S.
03/19/2010 - 09:36 PM
Sharks on the menu at wildlife trade meet
(AFP)
 AFP - Four rapidly dwindling shark species prized in Asia for fins and in Europe for meat will be swimming against the current at a UN wildlife trade meet days after an attempt to protect tuna was crushed.
03/20/2010 - 11:05 AM
Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall
(AP)
 AP - Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History.
03/17/2010 - 03:54 PM
Japan sighs relief as bluefin tuna ban fails
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Qatar that a proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna had failed to pass. Japan consumes around three-quarters of the globe’s bluefin tuna catch, with almost all of it served raw as sushi and sashimi, of which it is the most sought-after variety.
03/19/2010 - 09:19 AM
The nation's weather
(AP)
 AP - A major storm was expected to strengthen over the South on Saturday, pulling in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and contributing to a system that could drop 2 to 5 inches of snow on Oklahoma and northern Texas.
03/20/2010 - 04:09 AM
Saturn at its Best for 2010
(SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - While the
planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars
continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye
planet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010. The great ringed
beauty arrives at opposition to the sun on the American evening of Sunday,
March 21, putting on an all-night performance.
03/19/2010 - 03:31 PM
Bulgaria boosts GM crop restrictions
(AFP)
 AFP - Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday tightened restrictions on genetically modified food crops in the face of pressure from environmentalists seeking a total ban.
03/18/2010 - 12:18 PM
Sudan hangs two for killing Chinese oil workers
(Reuters)
Reuters - Sudan executed two people convicted of killing four oil workers, two of them Chinese, in one of the country's most energy-rich regions, state media reported on Wednesday.
03/17/2010 - 11:47 AM
Chile unveils $110 million reconstruction plan
(AFP)
 AFP - Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
03/19/2010 - 04:03 PM
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