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Tropical Storm Bertha speeding over Atlantic (AP)

Published July 5th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM EDT shows a few areas of clouds in the Caribbean Sea, but no tropical development is noticed in the area. Clouds on the far right of the image are associated with Tropical Storm Bertha as it roars through the tropical Atlantic Ocean.(AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Tropical Storm Bertha continues to speed across the Atlantic Ocean.

Breakthrough: Artificial DNA Could Power Future Computers (LiveScience.com)

Published July 5th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

LiveScience.com - Chemists claim to have created the world’s first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts.

Spacecraft Woken for Asteroid Encounter (SPACE.com)

Published July 5th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

SPACE.com - A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September.

Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply (AP)

Published July 5th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

In this Nov. 8, 2007, file photo, Moni, a 17-year-old orangutan, carries her four-day-old baby at Gembira Loka zoo in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The numbers of orangutans in Indonesia and Malaysia had declined sharply mostly due to illegal logging and the rapid expansion of palm oil plantations, a researcher said. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi, FILE)AP - Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn’t taken, a new study says.

UN chief to G8: climate change, food crisis linked (AP)

Published July 4th, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

A member from the international relief group Oxfam personates the likes of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, center, as he leads other Oxfam members portraying other Group of Eight leaders to belt it out karaoke tunes at Sapporo, northern Japan, on Saturday, July 5, 2008. The G8 leaders, representing the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Canada, will descend in this northern Japanese island of Hokkaido for the summit meeting to discuss global warming and food crisis, among others. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world’s richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years.


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