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Yahoo News Scientists thought it would take a decade for Southeast Asia’s coral reefs to heal after 2004′s deadly tsunami but they said Friday that Indonesia’s reefs have bounced back with surprising speed, restoring livelihoods to countless small communities. The findings came as communities across the Indian Ocean remembered the disaster that struck Dec. 26, [...]

reuters Insisting on the need to develop new forms of energy, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose as his energy secretary a Nobel physics laureate who is a major promoter of alternative fuels. Obama named Steven Chu, the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics who was an early advocate for finding scientific [...]

Center for Biological Diversity SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida – NOAA’s Fisheries Service is increasing its protection of threatened elkhorn and staghorn corals in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands through a new rule to prohibit activities that result in death or harm to either species. The new regulations took effect on November 21 and [...]

Impact of rising carbon dioxide levels far worse than previously thought

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AP A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them. Officials from Tasmania state’s Parks and Wildlife Service rushed Sunday in four-wheel-drive vehicles to the remote site at Sandy Cape after the long-finned pilot whales were spotted by [...]