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Building a pond, a Michigan couple unearths an 1,100-year-old mastodon's bones.

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Protected by the Endangered Species Act, Aleutian geese have made a spectacular recovery - causing serious problems in California as they graze by the thousands in farmers' fields.

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Tigers at the Isle of Wight zoo have been hosed down to help them keep cool as the south of the UK swelters.

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Migaloo, the rare all-white humpback whale, was spotted swimming off the Queensland state on Wednesday as it migrated up the Australian coast. (July 1)

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The National Grid can cope with the changing quantities of power generated by wind power without suffering power cuts or a meltdown, a study says.

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A top NASA official is touting a replacement for the Space Shuttle program that would be much cheaper than the planned $35 billion Constellation program. (June 30)

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Researchers at Japanese car maker Toyota claim to have come up with a wheelchair that moves by reading people's minds.

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A £140m scheme to produce enough electricity to power every home in Glasgow, using nothing but the power of water, is being opened by the Queen.

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Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world.

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India's government has spent millions to clean up the Yamuna River, but it remains one of the world's most polluted waterways, flowing through the capital and past the Taj Mahal.

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It's been said that you can't judge a book by its cover. How old that saying is is anyone's guess, but a 2800 year-old mummy is proving the old adage true. (June 24)

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Weather guru has a "secret science" to predict weather up to a year in advance.

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A professor starts a year-long test of BMW's new electric MINI E; A car that can go 100 miles on a single charge. (June 23)

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As the fortieth anniversary of the first Moon landing approaches the BBC's Richard Westcott got a taste of weightlessness on a zero-gravity training flight.

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NASA has launched its first moon shot in a decade. It's a first step in NASA's effort to return humans to the moon by 2020. (June 18)

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In West Virginia, critics warn public health and safety are threatened by coal waste from processors that is stored in hundreds of slurry ponds or injected underground.

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For the second time in a week, leaking hydrogen gas has grounded the space shuttle Endeavour.

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The French city of Toulouse has agreed to dim city lights to help astronomers at the nearby Pic du Midi observatory get a clearer pictures of the heavens.

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Actor Greta Scacchi debates the ideas in her film with MPs Ben Bradshaw and Michael Gove, who both a background in fishing.

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New report shows global warming effects are not limited to the Arctic regions.

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For the second time in less a week, a hydrogen gas leak on shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank early Wednesday forced a launch delay, pushing its space station construction mission into July. (June 17)

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In Florida, state officials have licensed a company to use a procedure designed to zap oysters with a small dose of radiation. (June 15)

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The UK's fraud prevention service has warned that takeover fraud, where criminals obtain bank and credit card details, has risen by 75% in the last year.

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2009 is the Year of Astronomy, 400 years after the first observations with a telescope by famed astronomer Galileo. To mark the occasion, French engineers and scientists are converting a giant dam in the Provence region of southern France into what they say will be the biggest sundial in the world. The 200,000-euro attraction is expected to draw thousands of tourists who flock to the region to visit the nearby Verdon canyons.

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Two "gay" male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents.

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A three-day effort to tag and count as many sharks off the west coast of Scotland starts on Friday.

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The AP's Peter Svensson tests the Acer Timeline 3810T and MSI's X-Slim X340, the latest light-weight laptops on the market. (June 11)

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Scientists are hailing the discovery of a patch of rainforest in northern Mozambique as one of the most significant finds in years.

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Japan has announced a target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 15% over the next 11 years.

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In a major discovery for the survival of the species, researchers have found huge numbers of endangered leatherback turtles nesting along Gabon's Atlantic coastline.

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Like no other medium, great dioramas give you wild animals' experience.

This small creature is small enough to sit on the tip of a pencil.

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Scientist says learning from ants' efficiency could cut down on traffic jams.

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Greenery for floral displays can be bought from certified suppliers, protecting forests and local communities that depend on them.

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Certified "green tourism" protects natural and cultural resources and pays fair wages to workers.

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Buying coffee grown by certified farms guarantees environmental, social and economic sustainability.

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Buying certified wood products encourages regulated, sustainable logging that actually saves more trees than total protection.

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Levees are intended to keep straitjackets on rivers, but engineers now find that controlled breaches can avoid more widespread damage to occupied areas in flood-plains.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis has finally returned to Earth after a frustrating three day delay.