| |  Meeting on deforestation boosts morale, budget
2:14PM CT
PARIS (AP) - A conference bringing together more than 60 nations Thursday added $1 billion to the fight against deforestation and boosted the morale of those hoping to save the world's forests — a key defense against global warming. | | |
 Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles
Mar 10 2010 11:29PM CT
BOSTON (AP) - The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades. | | |
Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches
11:40PM CT
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers. | | |
 48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing
2:32AM CT
HONOLULU (AP) - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish. | | |
Personal look at genes locates disease causes
Mar 10 2010 6:12PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited illnesses, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family. | | |
 World's top scientists to review climate panel
Mar 10 2010 4:32PM CT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. | | |
 CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Mar 10 2010 9:03PM CT
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries. | | |
 NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights
Mar 9 2010 1:31PM CT
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn't be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to keep paying $200 million a month. | | |
GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
Mar 9 2010 8:58AM CT
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup. | | |
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