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U.N. talks help eels, elephants, slow extinctions
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Elephants and eels may find life slightly easier as a result of trade curbs imposed after UN talks that ended on Friday in a modest attempt to slow what may be the ...

China plants trees to hold back desertification
DUOLUN COUNTY, China (Reuters) - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner Mongolian village where his family had lived for three ...

British body backs inter-species clones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released ...

Ecuador weighs Galapagos turtles vs tourists
PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Marauding Europeans are nothing new to the Galapagos Islands, which long ago were the haunt of English pirates preying on Spanish galleons laden with Inca ...

Desalination no answer to water crisis: WWF
GENEVA (Reuters) - Removing salt from sea water to overcome a worldwide shortage of drinking water could end up worsening the crisis, environmental group WWF warned on Tuesday.

Extinct ancestor was pygmy version of modern panda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear ...

Having male twin reduces woman's fertility: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who have a male twin are less likely to marry and have children, perhaps because of being exposed to their brother's testosterone for nine months in the womb ...

China tiger trade ban won't last : official
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will inevitably lift its ban on the trade of tiger bones and body parts, a wildlife official told state media, saying groups seeking to profit from the ...

British scientists reject badger cull
LONDON (Reuters) - UK government scientists on Monday rejected calls from farmers and vets for a cull of Britain's badgers to help tackle tuberculosis in cattle.

Shuttle crew closes door on space shuttle mission
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts on the International Space Station and visiting space shuttle Atlantis said goodbye on Monday as they closed the hatch between their two ships in preparation ...

7M pounds of trash pulled from waterways (AP)
AP - Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual ...

El Nino, La Nina cycle needs watching: experts
EXETER (Reuters) - "La Nina", the abnormal cooling of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures, is as powerful as its brother "El Nino" and the effects of global warming on ...

Mass study finds record haul of disease genes
LONDON (Reuters) - The largest ever study of genes in disease has found 24 genetic risk factors -- half of them completely new -- linked to seven common conditions, British scientists said ...

Asia must share bird flu virus, vaccine: Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia called on Asia-Pacific nations on Thursday not to let commercial or national interests stand in the way of creating bird flu vaccines before a pandemic breaks ...

Hong Kong summers hotter than 40 years ago: experts
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Average summer temperatures in Hong Kong have risen over the past 40 years, researchers have found, blaming global warming and heat trapped by buildings.

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