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Bear Mauls Teen in Alaska Mountain Bike Race
A bear attacked a 14-year-old girl who was participating at an all-night mountain bicycle race. The...
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Alaska: 2 Missing Women Rescued from National Park
A trip into Denali National Park from Alaska went wrong and two women got lost.
Fortunately they...
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Welcomes Back, Humpback Whales
Good news for whale lovers, as SPLASH, which stands for
Structure of Populations, Levels of...
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Polar Bears Are Now Protected
Polar bears were announced to be added to the list of
animals protected by the Endangered Species...
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Decision On Polar Bears Expected Today
The US Interior Department will announce today if the polar
bear is to be listed as threatened and...
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Bush Criticizes the Democrats, Proposes Alternative Bill
During a White House meeting with Republican leaders of Congress on Wednesday, U.S. President...
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Vessel Is Sinking off Alaska as Crew Abandons It
A Seattle-based fishing boat is sinking about 120 miles off Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Its 47-member...
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Ex-Chief Of Staff Of Alaska Gov Pleads Guilty To Fraud
On Monday the chief of staff for former Alaska Gov. Frank
Murkowski pleaded guilty to fraud in a...
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Seattle Fishing Boat On Fire In Alaska
A fishing vessel from Seattle
caught on fire early Wednesday in the Bearing
Sea, 136 miles of...
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U.S. Navy May Shoot Down Failing Satellite Today
The U.S. navy will use a heat-seeking missile in its attempt to destroy the malfunctioning U.S. spy...
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Storm Hits California And Strands Hundreds Of Motorists
Almost 500 motorists remained stranded on a mountain freeway
when a storm, which came out of...
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Storm Hits Western States
Western states are to face a hard winter as heavy snow has
fallen from Washington to Arizona,...
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Richardson To Withdraw From Presidential Race
Democratic presidential
candidate Bill Richardson is expected to announce his withdrawal from the...
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UPDATE: Six Killed in Crash of Small Plane in Alaska
The door to a baggage compartment in the nose of the plane had popped open after takeoff and the...
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Six Killed in Crash of Small Plane in Alaska
A small plane crashed Saturday in waters off Kodiak Island in southern Alaska, killing six from the...
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Alaska’s Aleutian Island Struck by Magnitude 7.2 Quake
A large earthquake struck off the Andreanof Islands in the
Aleutian Islands in southern...
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Three people killed in two shootings in Colorado
Three people died yesterday and several others were wounded during
shootings at a church and a...
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Two Killed by Gunman in Missionary Center
Two young people were killed and two others were wounded by
a gunman who opened fire at a...
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Still No Survivors Found In the Alaska Helicopter Crash
The medical helicopter reported missing since Monday has been found by a rescue team on Saturday on...
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South Korea Struggles to Clean Up Oil Spill
On Saturday South Korean workers armed with oil skimmers and
containment fences struggled to clean...
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Elections under Way in Russia, Putin’s Party Strong Favorite
The parliamentary elections are today under way in Russia as 107 million people are called to elect...
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Sex Offenders Banned for Halloween in Most Areas
Sex offenders in many areas across the United States are required to follow special rules this...
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Pentagon Tests New Defense Missile
The Pentagon recently conducted an important test on Friday of the system to defend against...
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Climate Change – Can U.S. Fight This Chain Reaction?
There’s no doubt about it,
climate is changing, and we’re feeling it now, scientists warned in a...
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Phoenix To Land On Mars With No Further Adjustments
NASA’s mission controllers announced that Phoenix Mars
Lander will reach the Red Planet this...
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Phoenix Is Ready To Conquer Mars On Sunday Night
After a journey of 10-months and more than 400 million
miles, Phoenix is
set to arrive at the Red...
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Alaska Gov. To Challenge Polar Bear Decision In Court
The polar bear controversy is far from being over. As environmental
groups are happy with forcing...
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Government Forced to Decide the Fate of Polar Bears
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to decide by May 15
whether polar bears should...
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Ocean Scientists Discover Rare White Killer Whale In Alaska
A group of scientists aboard the NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson in the North Pacific spotted a...
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Bush Administration Pressured to Protect Polar Bears
The polar bear or Ursus maritimus could be soon officially recognized as the first animal...
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Conservationists Oppose Alaska Oil Exploration Decision
Extraction or extinction? That is
the question both environmental groups and oil-and-gas plan...
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Global Warming Will Induce Drought In Western U.S.
The western part of the United
States should expect intensive drought, as global warming already...
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U.S. Officials Choose Oil Extraction Over Polar Bears' Extinction
Environmental issues and
economic interests were standing face to face as the U.S. Interior...
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Bald Eagles Threatened to Death by Fish Waste
What nourishes you might also
kill you, especially when it comes to fish slime. However, it...
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Decision on Threatened Polar Bears Delayed another Month
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported Monday that it would
not meet the Wednesday deadline...
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NASA Unveils ‘Love Triangle’ E-Mails
NASA decided to unveil more than 200 pages of emails
related to the strange case of an astronaut...
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Scientists Warn about Rapid Arctic Melt Due to Global Warming
The Arctic ice is threatening to become open water in an
extremely short time due to global...
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More than 25 Percent of the U.S. birds at Risk
The Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy announced
Wednesday that a quarter of all...
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Summer Arctic Ice Area Hits All-Time Low
This year more than one million square miles of ice in the Arctic Ocean's floating cap melted away...
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Number of Polar Bears in Severe Decline
Polar bears could soon be declared a “threatened species,” as government officials warn...
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Humans Originated From A Single Point In Africa Claims New Research
Where was humankind born: on which continent or in which
geographical area? That question has many...
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Polar Bears Give Birth on Land as Their Icy Habitat Shrinks
Already on UN’s list of endangered species, polar bears are starting to feel the effects of the...
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Clues About The Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance
A new report published online in Current Biology has some
explanations to a famous case: the...
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The Lost Whales Had Found Their Way Home
The marine scientists had managed to lure back to the sea
the two humpback whales. The whales, a...
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