Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:40:02 GMT
The ruling says that the plan does not ensure protections for threatened and endangered species of fish and other animals when fighting wildfires.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:53:58 GMT
A gap in the fossil record preceding the Cambrian has ignited intense interest among geologists.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:20:41 GMT
The oil is clearing much faster than expected, but concern remains over the unseen effects.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:50:01 GMT
The discovery that Titan’s lakes are evaporating, at least in the Southern Hemisphere, suggests that there are active weather and geological cycles analogous to those on Earth.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:00:54 GMT
The data from two separate experiments at Fermilab narrow the range in which the Higgs boson, if it exists, must be hiding.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:07 GMT
Jane Brox’s narrative is in many ways a social history, told through man’s relationship to light.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:40:02 GMT
At an estimated 13 pounds, a giant rat that may have lived as recently as 1,000 years ago was bigger than any previously known.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:33:01 GMT
A wellhead spewing oil up to 100 feet into the air was at least the third unrelated oil leak in the Louisiana area since the Deepwater Horizon spill began.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:07:17 GMT
Utilities are developing storage batteries to smooth the flow of intermittent sources of power, like wind farms.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:10:02 GMT
Thousands of caves and abandoned mines on federal land in five states will be off limits to explorers for the next year to prevent humans from spreading a disease that kills bats.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:50:25 GMT
Crews were working to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:40:25 GMT
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled last month that the state’s flexible air permit program violated the Clean Air Act.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:33:01 GMT
A three-judge panel reversed a ruling requiring the Tennessee Valley Authority to upgrade emission controls at three coal-fired power plants.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:50:06 GMT
Plastiki, a sailboat made of recycled material intended to raise awareness of the perils of waste, completed its difficult 8,000-mile Pacific crossing, arriving at Sydney.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:39:09 GMT
Experts are pondering issues raised after a trial found that a vaginal gel could help women avoid infection.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:48:04 GMT
A patient illicitly selling part of his medication helps fight AIDS in his own strange way.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:45:56 GMT
Mounting evidence suggests that therapy can help reduce the frequency and intensity of nightmares.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:48:33 GMT
Sudep, for sudden unexplained death in epilepsy, accounts for up to 18 percent of all epilepsy deaths , yet many patients and their families never hear about it until someone dies.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:46:18 GMT
In her new book, Sonia Shah has spun a disease yarn that’s not a yawn.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:50:21 GMT
The Food and Agriculture Organization effort encourages nations around the world to bring the disease under control.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:23 GMT
Only one-third of those without health insurance are routinely screened for colorectal cancer, according to a new report.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:23 GMT
Transfusing patients with their own blood can halve the number of blood products used in hospitals and reduce costs, a study reports.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:23 GMT
Zinc nasal gel products can cause some patients to lose their sense of smell, a new analysis finds.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:11:11 GMT
Eleanor Sterling is at the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Central Pacific studying the ecology and behavior of the two species of sea turtles.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:00:39 GMT
Taking an aging vehicle across the Chalbi Desert in Kenya is risky even in the best weather.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:09:54 GMT
Each decade since the 1980's has been progressively warmer than the last, with an average warming of about one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit per decade.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:43:12 GMT
Years of work remain to assess the harm caused by BP's oil spill.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:49:03 GMT
Some foes of cap and trade are far less averse to a clean energy mandate.

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:05:22 GMT
An Apollo science project to balance human actions and the planet's limits

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:40:16 GMT
If the tobacco hornworm looks odd from the outside as it crawls, check out the inside.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:40:02 GMT
To spread its spores, Sphagnum moss shoots them upward in a mushroom cloud shape.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:06:57 GMT
Rising temperatures have helped the marmot population, at least for now.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:05:07 GMT
I want very much to have a big dog but am told the apartment is not large enough. What can I do?

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:05 GMT
Puzzles that explore the causes of "telepathy."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:47 GMT
Patients have the right to review their medical records, but few have laid eyes on them. Many doctors worry the documents will be misread.

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:04:38 GMT
If recent findings hold up in future research, the consequences of vitamin D deficiency are likely to go far beyond excessive bone loss.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:54:00 GMT
Can too much running induce acid reflux?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:50:01 GMT
Letters to the editor.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:50:02 GMT
A letter to the editor.

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:50:02 GMT
Letters to the editor.