AP - The Associated
Press-Stanford University
Environment Poll on
global warming was
conducted by GfK Roper
Public Affairs &
Media from Nov. 17-29,
2009. It is based on
landline telephone and
cell phone interviews
with a nationally
representative ...
AP - More Americans
believe steps taken to
reduce global warming
pollution will help the
U.S. economy than say
such measures will hurt
it. It's a sign the
public is showing more
faith in President Barack
Obama's economic
arguments for limiting
heat-t...
AP - Australian
scientists have
discovered an octopus in
Indonesia that collects
coconut shells for
shelter — unusually
sophisticated behavior
that the researchers
believe is the first
evidence of tool use in
an invertebrate animal.
LiveScience.com -
Americans are known for
gorging
on food, but we're also
gluttons of another sort:
A new study finds
that the average American
consumes more than 34
gigabytes of video,
music and words a day-and
that's only on our free
time.
Reuters - California's
two main river basins and
the aquifers beneath its
agricultural heartland
have lost nearly enough
water since 2003 to fill
Lake Mead, America's
largest reservoir, new
satellite data showed on
Monday.
AP - New and dramatic
species of coral and
sponges have been found
in the Pacific during
deep sea dives near the
Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands, scientists said
Monday.
LiveScience.com - SAN
FRANCISCO - Time-lapse
photography of crumbling
Alaskan coastlines is
helping scientists
understand the "triple
whammy" of forces eroding
the local landscape:
declining sea ice,
warming ocean waters and
more poundings by waves.
AP - A massive iceberg
edging slowly toward
Australia's southwestern
coast is breaking up into
hundreds of smaller
icebergs as it drifts
into warmer waters,
creating potentially
hazardous conditions for
ships trying to navigate
the region, a scientis...
AP - New computer
modeling suggests the
Arctic Ocean may be
nearly ice-free in the
summertime as early as
2014, Al Gore said Monday
at the U.N. climate
conference. This new
projection, following
several years of dramatic
retreat by polar sea ice,
sug...
AP - A proposal to
require the owners of a
New Jersey nuclear power
plant to install water
cooling towers that would
help revive the waterway
at the site has been put
on hold.