Reuters - The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be a near-normal one with as many as seven hurricanes expected to form, U.S. government forecasters predicted on Thursday.
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AFP - China confirmed Thursday that it will demand rich nations cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 in upcoming global climate change negotiations.
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Reuters - Space shuttle Atlantis prepared on Thursday to leave orbit after a successful mission that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope, but poor weather over Florida may delay Friday s planned homecoming.
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AP - Overfishing and unchecked coastal development have resulted in the disappearance of 85 percent of all oyster reefs, making the ecosystem one of the most severely affected marine habitats in the world, according to a study released Thursday.
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AFP - Tens of thousands of homes were without power and hundreds of schools closed on Thursday as a wild storm front lashed Australia s northeast coast.
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AFP - Leaders of the world s biggest cities called for a bigger say in upcoming UN climate change talks as they wrapped up a three-day summit on ways to combat global warming.
trackback:http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090521/sc_afp/skoreaclimatewarmingAP - A dam-building spree in China poses the greatest threat to the future of the already beleaguered Mekong, one of the world s major rivers and a key source of water for the region, a U.N. report said Thursday.
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AP - Tests and testifying will take up what NASA hopes is the last day in orbit for the space shuttle Atlantis.
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AP - No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery  one that a group of flu detectives is determined to solve.
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AFP - The outgoing head of the International Whaling Commission has voiced regret that his controversial drive to reach a compromise on protecting whales had failed, and said Japan needed to cede more ground.
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