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Swiss ski resort tries to cover up climate change
VERBIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - Global warming may be the last thing on the minds of extreme skiers speeding down the blustery cliff faces at Verbier-4 Vallees this winter.

NASA probe peers back to an instant after Big Bang
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NASA space probe has peered back in time to a bare instant -- less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second -- after the Big Bang, astronomers reported ...

New Zealand evacuates remote island as volcano erupts
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand conservation worker was missing and five others were evacuated by helicopter after a volcanic eruption on a remote Pacific island on Friday.

No safe water for 1 billion poor, companies wary
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ten years ago, many poor countries hoped private cash would bring safe water to the 1 billion people in the world who lack it, but now corporate interest is ...

Minnows lead majors to greener future
WOKING (Reuters) - In the war on global warming, the southern English town of Woking is tilting at the establishment, but unlike Don Quixote, it is using windmills instead of ...

Ghostly coral bleachings haunt the world's reefs
SYDNEY (Reuters) - When marine scientist Ray Berkelmans went diving at Australia's Great Barrier Reef earlier this year, what he discovered shocked him -- a graveyard of coral ...

How many species inhabit the planet?
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists and policy makers who want to slow the rate at which species are being lost face a conundrum: No one knows how many different plants and animals ...

Experts Argue Over Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (AP)
AP - Was it or was it not an ivory-billed woodpecker? Experts are still arguing a year later, while bird fanciers flock to the part of Arkansas where the bird in question was said to have ...

Evidence for Universe Expansion Found (AP)
AP - Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size ...

Clues to Mars life may lie underground: scientist
HOUSTON (Reuters) - To learn if Mars ever supported life, researchers should look underground, a scientist presenting results of the Mars Express mission said at a conference this ...

German named to head UN environment agency
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan chose a German conservationist to head the U.N. Environment Program for a four-year term, a U.N. spokesman announced on ...

No healings rush seen with Lourdes "miracle lite"
PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic pilgrimage shrine at Lourdes will not start churning out cases of divine healings with a new category of faith-based recoveries that do not ...

US panel endorses strict local tailpipe standards
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Research Council on Thursday endorsed efforts by California and other states to set tougher standards for tailpipe emissions than those set by the ...

Global warming reaches 'tipping point': report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Human-fueled global warming has reached a "tipping point," according to a new survey of scientific research that found warming would continue even if ...

Great Lakes gray wolves no longer endangered -US
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Interior Department on Thursday proposed to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the federal list of endangered and threatened species.

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