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More than 1,000 Catfish Species Are Venomous
LiveScience.com – Fri Dec 11, 8:32 am ET

At least 1,250 species of catfish are venomous, a new study finds. Full Story »
How much EU countries committing to climate fund
AP – Fri Dec 11, 10:52 am ET

European Union leaders agreed at a summit Friday to come up with $3.6 billion a year through 2012, or a total of $10.8 billion over three years, to help pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. Here are some of the pledges made by the 27 EU members until a new climate pact being negotiated in Copenhagen comes into effect in 2013: Full Story »
Wheel Trouble May Doom Stuck Rover on Mars
SPACE.com – Fri Dec 11, 12:16 pm ET

After months stuck fast in deep Martian sand, NASA's embattled rover Spirit is facing a debilitating wheel problem that has slowed its escape efforts and could paralyze the long-lived robot. Full Story »
World should at least halve CO2 by 2050: draft text
Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:07 am ET

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The world should at least halve world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with rich nations taking the lead, according to a first draft text on Friday seeking to break deadlock on a new climate pact at U.N. talks. Full Story »
Clean energy to grow into 1.6 trillion euros industry: WWF
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 7:10 pm ET

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GENEVA (AFP) - The clean energy technology sector will grow into a 1.6 trillion-euro (2.4 trillion-dollar) industry by 2020, becoming the third largest industrial sector after automobiles and electronics, WWF said Friday. Full Story »
PCs Not Dead Yet
LiveScience.com – Thu Dec 10, 8:55 pm ET

Whatever it says about priorities during a recession, the facts are there: Employment is down. Housing prices are down. But PCs shipments are up. Way up. Full Story »
Wireless Devices to Read Words in the Brain
LiveScience.com – Fri Dec 11, 12:41 pm ET

Wireless brain-machine interfaces could one day scan minds in real-time for speech data to help people with brain injuries talk, new research suggests. Full Story »
Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
AP – Thu Dec 10, 11:31 pm ET

PORTLAND, Ore. - The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River. Full Story »
Asarco paying $1.8B to clean up more than 80 sites
AP – Fri Dec 11, 8:36 am ET

PHOENIX - Environmental cleanups at more than 80 sites in 19 states will move forward with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding under settlements with the sale of bankrupt copper miner Asarco LLC, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday. Full Story »
Giant oil spill in Alaska likely caused by ice
AP – Wed Dec 9, 10:52 pm ET

AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Officials believe that ice plugged up a pipeline and likely caused a rupture that sent 46,000 gallons of crude oil and water gushing onto snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope late last month. Full Story »
Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure
LiveScience.com – Thu Dec 10, 9:41 am ET

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The pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas. Full Story »
Solar power coming to a store near you
AP – Thu Dec 10, 12:19 am ET

AP

NEW YORK - Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install. Full Story »
China climate envoy criticises rich nations
AFP – Wed Dec 9, 9:02 pm ET

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BEIJING (AFP) - China's envoy to the world climate change talks in Copenhagen has criticised rich countries for failing to fulfil commitments to curb carbon emissions and provide aid to developing nations. Full Story »
China emissions could double by 2020: experts
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 12:55 am ET

AFP

BEIJING (AFP) - Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say. Full Story »
New Star Found in Big Dipper
SPACE.com – Thu Dec 10, 10:15 am ET

One of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle's handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion, new observations have revealed. Full Story »
Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions
AP – Wed Dec 9, 11:50 pm ET

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GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Full Story »
Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009
AP – Thu Dec 10, 6:48 pm ET

AP

STOCKHOLM - A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and two American researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading. Full Story »
Extra pores on plants 'could ease' global warming
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 2:33 am ET

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TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production. Full Story »