Alaskan volcano is active and oozing magma

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Scientists say Alaska's Augustine Volcano has started oozing lava and is exhibiting less-explosive activity than it did earlier this year.


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Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets

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Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.

China to launch space mission in late September

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(AP) -- China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.

Eat less meat to fight climate change: UN expert

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People should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, a top United Nations expert told a British Sunday newspaper.

Hurricane Ike ravages Caribbean islands as Hanna hits US

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Hurricane Ike lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands early Sunday and threatened to unleash its fury on the Bahamas, Cuba and the US Gulf Coast, as Tropical Storm Hanna continued to batter the US East Coast. ...

High-resolution satellite launched in California

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(AP) -- A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California ...
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