Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq....
Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study says....
UN chief to G8: climate change, food crisis linked
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years....
Syria returns stolen marble artifact to Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country's archaeological sites....
Hawaiian volcano spewing more lava than usual
VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) -- More lava than usual is spilling from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano into the ocean....
Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies that study the planet....
Mars lander's next bake test could be its last
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last....
July 4th boaters: Steer clear of NJ dolphin family
SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities protecting a dolphin family in a New Jersey river are stepping up enforcement over the July Fourth holiday....
G-8 climate scorecard shows US in last
BERLIN (AP) -- The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found....
Mass. lobstermen promote practices as whale safe
BOSTON (AP) -- New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales....
