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China faces uphill energy-saving drive
BEIJING (Reuters) - To Bejing opera singer and law-maker Liu Changyu, the bright lights that Premier Wen Jiabao wants to dim are a sign of China's progress, and need to stay on.
Inspired by past, NY town seeks to get kids into nature
KINGSTON, New York (Reuters) - With American kids increasingly obese and addicted to video games, a small town in upstate New York is looking 100 years into its past to lead them ...
Saturn moon spewing water vapor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, is spewing out a giant plume of water vapor that is probably feeding one of the planet's rings, scientists said on Thursday.
Columbus mystery nearly solved 500 years after death
ROME (Reuters) - Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really ...
Cleaner diesel standard seen cutting asthma attacks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maligned as the fuel behind surging rates of asthma and other diseases in the United States, diesel will get an overhaul this year that could save thousands of ...
Small Kuparuk water spill triggers oil well shutdowns
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A spill of salty, oil-laced produced water at the second-largest U.S. oil field contaminated a small area of snow-covered tundra and prompted the ...
Alaska's North Slope sees its biggest oil spill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska officials said on Friday that up to 267,000 gallons (6,357 barrels) of crude oil poured out of a pipeline at the Prudhoe Bay field, making it the ...
Lost, lonely whale feared killed by boat
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A lonely killer whale that captured the hearts of thousands and became the object of an emotional tug-of-war between biologists and Natives on ...
Heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket orbits two satellites
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- A heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket put two telecommunications satellites into orbit after a long delayed launch from French Guiana late on Saturday, space ...
NASA probe "dodges bullet" to achieve Mars orbit
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A $450 million NASA spacecraft dropped smoothly into orbit around Mars on Friday, successfully completing a risky make-or-break maneuver in its ...
US says CO2 injection could quadruple oil reserves
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States, where oil production has been declining since the 1970s, has the potential to boost its oil reserves four-fold through advanced injection of ...
Scientists find Antarctic ice shrank significantly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Antarctic ice sheet shrank significantly during the past three years, according to the findings of a NASA study released on Thursday.
Pirate trawlers face crackdown on overfishing
PARIS (Reuters) - Pirate trawlers will be tracked by a new database as part of a planned crackdown on illegal fish catches worth $9.5 billion a year that are adding to strains on ...
China tells departments to cut energy, water use
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has told its government departments to cut their electricity and water consumption by 20 percent by 2010, state media reported on Saturday.
Walk while you work: researcher
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Workers of the world, walk. Fueled by research conducted by a Mayo Clinic obesity specialist, some U.S. workers are spending their days on treadmills or indoor ...
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