| | Unknown disease killing off Florida's state tree
2:42PM CT
MIAMI (AP) - The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped. An unknown but growing number of sabal palms in the Tampa Bay area have died from a mysterious disease that researchers are struggling to identify. Even after scientists pinpoint the disease — and that could take years — they will have to learn what insect spreads it. The disease will be tough to stop. | | |
Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever
4:39AM CT
HOUSTON (AP) - A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned. | | |
Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible _ online
Jul 21 2008 6:16PM CT
LONDON (AP) - The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online. | | |
 Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled
Jul 21 2008 6:16PM CT
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday. | | |
 Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
Jul 20 2008 3:35PM CT
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. | | |
 Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves
Jul 18 2008 11:36PM CT
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. | | |
Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon
Jul 18 2008 11:12PM CT
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions in lost crops. | | |
 Tiny bug threatens California citrus industry
Jul 18 2008 3:53AM CT
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Border agents have stepped up searches and hundreds of traps have been placed on the California-Mexico line in an aggressive campaign to stop a tiny bug from bringing in a disease farmers say could wipe out the $1.3 billion citrus industry here. | | |
 National park in Alaska tests hybrid bus
Jul 18 2008 5:24AM CT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - For years, visitors wanting to see Denali National Park's grizzly bears, moose, sheep and caribou have had to ride school buses that polluted the air and tranquility with their noisy, carbon dioxide-spewing diesel engines. | | |
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