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Calif. Asks to Keep Roadless Areas in U.S. Forests
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July 12, 2006 - MSNBC
| | Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the federal government to protect 4.4 million acres of California's national forests. The proposal comes in response to a Bush administration rule which would allow road building on some previously protected lands, unless governors petition the federal government.
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Scorpion Venom Tested as Brain Cancer Treatment
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June 27, 2006 - LiveScience.com
| | Venom from the yellow Israeli scorpion binds preferentially to certain cancerous glial cells in the brain. By isolating part of the protein and attaching it radioactive material, cancerous cells can be specifically targeted and killed. Preliminary studies on high-grade gliomas have yielded promising results.
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Norway to House Seeds in Doomsday Vault
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June 18, 2006 - ABC News
| | Oslo, Norway -- Construction has begun on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands. Up to 3 million seeds will stored in the Vault, to ensure crop diversity in case of global disasters such as plant epidemics or climate change.
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American Chestnut Trees Reappear in N.H.
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June 18, 2006 - ABC News
| | Lee, N.H. -- By the mid-1900s, a deadly fungus from Asia had wiped out almost all of the nation's American chestnut trees. A conservation group is now trying to reintroduce the tree in New England forests by cross-breeding the American chestnut with a a fungus-resistant variety.
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'Green Slime' Returns to Great Lakes
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June 14, 2006 - ABC News
| | Traverse City, Mich. -- Parts of the Great Lakes are experiencing an increasing number of algae blooms. Phosphorous, from sources such as fertilizers, dishwashing detergents, and livestock and animal waste, promotes the growth of algae which can be hazardous to both aquatic life and people.
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Manatees Off Fla. Endangered Species List
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June 9, 2006 - ABC News
| | West Palm Beach, Fla. -- The manatee will now be designated as a threatened species in the State of Florida. The number of manatees in Florida waters rose from 1,267 to 3,116 over the last fifteen years.
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Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
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June 1, 2006 - Space.com
| | Using satellites and radar images, scientists have discovered a crater in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica that is 300 miles wide - twice the size of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula. The impact that caused the crater may be responsible for the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250 million years ago.
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Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical
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May 31, 2006 - ABC News
| | Washington -- Core samples taken from beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that the North Pole was once warmer that previously thought. A spike in carbon dioxide 55 million years ago caused polar temperatures to average about 74 degrees. At the time of this global warming event, the concentration of CO2 was four times higher than it is today.
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Chesapeake Bay Underwater Grasses Rebound
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May 25, 2006 - ABC News
| | Annapolis, Md. -- The area covered by bay grasses increased by 7 percent from 2004 to 2005. The underwater grasses provide habitats to a number of species and filter nitrogen from the water.
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Feds Reject Petition to List Spotted Owl
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May 24, 2006 - ABC News
| | Fresno, Calif. --- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to add the California spotted owl to the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists argue that current logging laws and habitat changes are threatening the species.
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Report: Ozone Hole May Disappear by 2050
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May 20, 2006 - ABC News
| | Tokyo --- A scientist at the National Institute for Environmental Studies predicts the hole in the ozone layer could be healed by 2050. The findings are based on numerical simulations that incorporate projected emissions of ozone-depleting gases.
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Last Male Purebred Rabbit Species Dies
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May 17, 2006 - CBS
| | Ephrata, Wash. --- Only two purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits are known to be left in existence. Biologists will now try to crossbreed the two females with the closely related Idaho pygmy rabbit.
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Ozone Layer Shows Signs of Recovery: Scientists
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May 4, 2006 - Planet Ark
| | London --- Over the last decade, ozone levels have stabilized or slightly increased. This is believed to be the result of the 1987 Montreal Protocol which banned of ozone-depleting chemicals, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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Global Warming Cited in Wind Shift
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May 3, 2006 - ABC News
| | New York --- Wind patterns over the Pacific Ocean have been changing as a result of global warming. Scientists predict that the long-term consequences may somewhat resemble the effects of El Nino. This could include increased rainfall in the southern U.S. and and drought in parts of East Asia. Many ecosystems would likely be adversely affected as well.
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