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Vast Bird Study Unveils New Information
A vast study investigating bird genetics managed to uncover
several new facts about the flyers...
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Continental Plane Meets Strange Flying Object In Mid-Air
A Continental Airlines flight
had a close encounter with an unidentified object, which was...
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Human Actions Not Exempted From Climate Change Responsibilities
It’s time for a reality check:
the world is changing as we speak! The latest report on global...
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Platypus Holds The Genetic Code To Evolution
As science evolved, people
started asking questions and developing theories about how evolution on...
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Every Great Song Starts With A Babble, Even For Birds!
The first words of a baby are
almost always hard to make any sense of, and that behavior is not...
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Protein Analysis Provides Evidence Linking T. Rex with Birds
The latest research on the mighty predator Tyrannosaurus rex confirms
the long-hypothesized theory...
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Study: Primates Moved From Asia To North America 55 M Years Ago
The fossil of the earliest known
primate to have inhabited the North American continent -...
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Scientists Discover Super-Size Ancient Rodent
The scientists reported the discovery of the largest ever
recorded fossil skull of a new species...
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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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Researchers Discovered Two New Species of Mammals in Indonesia
During an expedition to Indonesia’s
remote eastern province
of Papua, scientists...
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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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Yellowstone Caldera May Be Filling with Magma
Scientists say the central region of Yellowstone National Park is rising. The area is dubbed the...
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Evidence: Indonesian "Hobbit" Not Diseased Human
After a three year long debate, it appears that those scientists claiming that "hobbit"...
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IUCN’s Report Says 16.306 Species Are Facing Extinction
An annual survey published Wednesday by the World
Conservation Union, IUCN revealed a sad and...
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DOI Could Overturn MacDonald's Biased Environmental Decisions
The Department of the Interior is expected to overturn politically-biased environmental decisions...
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Bird Flu in France and Germany Again
French officials announced Thursday that three swans have been found dead and carrying the deadly...
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Ancient Arctic Ponds Threatened by Global Warming
Ancient ponds which date back some 6,000 years ago are rapidly drying up due to the effects of the...
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Czech Republic Confirms New H5N1 Case In Poultry
State Veterinarian Administration confirmed a second case of bird flu among poultry on a farm in a...
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H5N1 Detected at Czech Poultry Farm
Laboratory tests have confirmed that the bird flu which affected turkeys at a Czech farm carried...
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Chinese Scientists Discover Giant Bird-like Dinosaur Fossil
The Chinese archeologists have reported the finding of the
remains of gigantic bird-like...
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Audubon Society: US’ Common Birds In Decline
The Audubon Society has published a worrying study about the
decline among America's
most common...
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Magpie Infected With H5N1 Virus Found In China
Hong Kong went into alert this week when a dead magpie found in an urban area of the region tested...
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Indonesian Health Officials Still Alert Over Bird Flu Threat
Indonesian health officials say the country’s efforts to contain the deadly H5N1 virus have...
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New York City Becomes Waterfall City
An installation art project that debuted this Thursday turned New York City’s historical harbor...
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Justice Department: Pilot’s Lacunose Maneuvers Caused Oil Spill
The pilot of the container ship
Cosco Busan that struck a Bay Bridge tower and caused a...
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Bangladesh Culls Thousands of Chickens over Bird Flu Concern
The spread of deadly bird flu in Bangladesh has forced health authorities
to slaughter about...
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Coast Guard Criticized In Oil Spill Intervention
The San Francisco Bay oil spill
incident that occurred in November came back to the public eye as...
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Bird-Flu Strikes At Ukraine Poultry Farm
According to the Interfax news agency, 153 birds have died
from the H5N1 bird-flu virus, at the...
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Oil Barge Strikes SF Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
A 309-foot barge carrying 63,000 barrels of heavy oil
through San Pablo Bay struck the...
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$61 M for San Francisco Bay Oil Spill Cleanup
On November 7, the container ship Cosco Busan struck a Bay
Bridge tower and caused a 58,000-gallon...
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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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Pilot in Bay Oil Spill Formally Accused of Misconduct
State Officials issued formal misconduct charges against the
pilot of the Cosco Busan cargo ship,...
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13 Killed in a Bomb Attack in Baghdad
A bomb exploded in a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday killing
13 people and...
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The Search Continues in the Black Sea
On Tuesday over 700 people worked to find the 20 sailors
that are still missing after the Sunday...
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NY City Councilman Proposes $1,000 Fine for Feeding Pigeons
New York Council Member Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat
proposed a $1,000 fine for feeding...
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Bodies of Three Sailors Recovered. The Clean Up Begins.
The bodies of three sailors were recovered on Monday by the
rescuers after the Russian freighter...
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U.S. Feds Launch Criminal Investigation into San Francisco Crash
The U.S.
prosecutors opened a criminal investigation about the Chinese container...
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Hundreds Hard at Work to Clean Up SF Bay Area Oil Spill
Hundreds of people work hard to save wildlife and halt the spread of a large oil spill in the San...
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San Francisco Beaches Threatened by Oil Spill
One fender of the Bay
Bridge, a vital transportation route that
connects San Francisco to...
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Prince Harry Questioned by Police for Shooting Rare Birds
British police are investigating the illegal killing of two rare birds on the Queen's royal country...
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UN Warns About Environmental Threats
According to a UN report that was issued on Thursday regarding the state of the environment, the...
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Another F-5F Crashes In Taiwan
Two Taiwanese pilots were killed while an Air Force F-5F jet
fighter crashed during a military...
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Health
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West Nile Spreads Due to Flooding, Threatens 4th of July Celebrations
West Nile problems are threatening the Fourth of July celebrations in many areas of the United...
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Horse Dies in California of West Nile Complications
A horse died in California of West Nile virus complications. This is the first known equine victim...
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Mosquitoes Continue to Spread West Nile Virus
At least eight Americans have been infected with the West Nile virus, according to U.S. Geological...
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CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu
Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned at a...
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West Nile Warning Stronger than Ever
Warm weather brings with it not only the joy of living but also waves of mosquitoes that could be...
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Baxter’s New Bird Flu Vaccine May Be Best Choice
Bird flu virus is closer than ever to finding its enemy,
as the first experimental bird flu...
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Mass Bird Cull in Hong Kong over Bird Flu Threat
Just days after Hong Kong health
workers slaughtered 2,700 poultry after excrement samples tested...
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All Hong Kong Markets to be Inspected for Bird Flu Virus
Hong Kong health workers
slaughtered 2,700 poultry on Saturday after excrement samples taken from...
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Bird Flu Strain at Tyson Foods Leads to Killing of 15,000 Hens
Routine blood tests conducted Friday on hens at Tyson Foods
Inc., the world’s largest meat...
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Bangladesh: Child Doing Well after Bird Flu
Bangladesh
reported on Thursday that a child infected with bird flu had recovered...
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West Nile Alert in Orange County, 13 Birds Test Positive
West Nile virus began to become more than a problem for the U.S.
states. Just days ago, Illinois...
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WHO: ‘Threat of a Pandemic Influenza Has Not Diminished’
During a conference held in Geneva on May 6, World Health Organization
experts warned on the...
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South Korea Confirms Fourth Outbreak of Bird Flu Virus
A fourth outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus
was confirmed by the South Korean government, after...
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NTSB Blames Pilot’s Medication and Alcohol Use for SF Oil Spill
Cosco Busan pilot Capt. John Cota whose container struck a Bay Bridge tower
on November 7, causing...
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Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Confirmed in China
Chinese health officials confirmed the first case of human-to-human
transmission of bird flu....
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Thousands of Chickens to Be Culled in S Korea amid Bird Flu Alarm
South Korean authorities have started culling thousands of
chickens following a bird flu outbreak,...
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Mississippi Confirms First West Nile Virus Case for 2008
The state Health Department
confirmed Monday, in a press release, Mississippi’s first human...
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Indonesia Reports Two More Bird Flu Victims
Two Indonesian children have died from bird flu, taking the
confirmed death toll in the country...
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China Reports Its Third Bird Flu Victim for 2008
A 44-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in
the southern Chinese province
of...
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Indonesia Reports Its 105th Bird Flu Victim
A three-year-old boy from the Indonesian capital Jakarta died last week of
bird flu, the Health...
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Bird Flu Death Toll on the Rise in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Health Ministry has added a new victim to the growing toll of bird flu deaths, as...
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Half of Bangladesh Districts Affected by Bird Flu
Three more districts of Bangladesh have been affected by
the avian influenza, raising the number...
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Another Indonesian Dies of Bird Flu; Threat Spreads in Asia
Another person has died of bird flu in Indonesia, bringing the country’s toll to 102, health...
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More than 100 Deaths From Bird Flu in Indonesia
Indonesia reported its 101st death from bird flu on Wednesday, when a health ministry official...
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Indonesia Reports Its 100th Bird Flu Victim
An Indonesia woman, 23, from East Jakarta has died from bird flu, raising the country’s death toll...
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Bird Flu Spreading Among Poultry in Bangladesh, India
Veterinary workers are hard at work in India and Bangladesh to collect and slaughter hundreds of...
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Pet Birds in PetSmart Stores Tested Positive for Bacterial Infection
The Washington State Department of Health has issued a warning on Friday saying that some recently...
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Immune Responses in Sinovac Bird-Flu Vaccine
This Monday, the Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd. announced that its H5N1 flu vaccine...
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Epidemiologists on Alert: Bird Flu Strikes Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that
bird flu is starting to spread again,...
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Victim’s Father Recovers from Bird Flu
According to official Xinhua news agency, the father of the
24-year-old Chinese man who died...
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