German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
 5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 178.0 Russian plans research to support Arctic claim
MOSCOW (AP) An official says Russia is planning extensive research to help uphold its claim to the energy-rich Arctic Sea shelf. Andrei Smirnov of the state-run company Atomflot said Russia is planning icebreaker missions in the Arctic over the nex...
0.9K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 Birders will flock to festival
Imagine seeing a lone man trudging through the wilderness with a 30-inch parabola microphone and a lead-acid battery attached to him. If you did, you d probably see Geoff Keller, one of the few field recordists trekking North America with the mission...
3.6K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 230.0 Russian search for ship grows
MOSCOW (AP) The disappearance of a Russian-manned cargo ship in the Atlantic more than two weeks ago spawned a variety of theories and intriguing reports today as the search drew in investigators from across Europe. Russia had naval vessels and sat...
5.8K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 624.0 Nature Guide Journal: Sturgeon a prehistoric mystery
Column by Marty Giles Prehistoric. Monster. Behemoth. Mysterious. These are mostly suitable words to describe sturgeon. Sturgeon look prehistoric for a number of reasons: a torpedo-shaped body with a tapered and flattened head; tiny, beady eyes; n...
4.5K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 266.0 Polar bears play waiting game
WASHINGTON - A decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming. The Obama administration is approaching a weekend deadline to decide whether it should a...
3.5K - May. 8, 2009; scored 266.0 The greenhouse effect is all spin
The continual drumbeat of misinformation about how carbon dioxide affects the Earth's climate has reached unprecedented dimensions. Now the EPA has classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant and Congress is set to introduce a $675 billion cap-...
2.7K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 373.0 Study: Rivers see flow decline
WASHINGTON (AP) - The flow of water in the world's largest rivers has declined over the past half-century, with significant changes found in about a third of the big rivers. An analysis of 925 major rivers from 1948 to 2004 showed an overall decline...
4.8K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 266.0 Report: Energy contributing to birds' decline
WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy production of all types - wind, ethanol and mountaintop coal mining - is contributing to steep drops in bird populations, a new government report says. The first-of-its-kind report chronicles a four-decade decline in many of ...
2.7K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 178.0 Mushers face bitter cold as Iditarod nears end
KOYUK, Alaska Lance Mackey s fellow mushers may think he has the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race all but sewn up this year, but not Mackey not after driving his dog team into brutally cold winds and across frozen sea ice to get to the Koyuk checkpoi...
4.6K - Mar. 17, 2009; scored 266.0 Chamber convention a success thanks to helpers
Many thanks to everyone who made the 2008 Bay Area Chamber Ambassadors statewide convention a great success. Over 180 ambassadors/greeters attended the event at The Mill Casino-Hotel from all over the state. They will return home and tell everyone at...
2.5K - Jan. 12, 2009; scored 178.0 Deadliest Catch captain brews up good times on South Coast
Phil Harris, captain of the king crabber Cornelia Marie, is used to weather on the Bering Sea. As one of the handful of now-famous skippers on the hit Discovery Channel TV show Deadliest Catch, he s seen ocean conditions like few people have. Waves...
2.2K - Dec. 19, 2008; scored 178.0 Arctic melt worsening
WASHINGTON (AP) More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than half of the loss o...
4.1K - Dec. 16, 2008; scored 590.0 | 
