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The discovery offers proof that it would be possible to sequester carbon dioxide deep below the seabed, researchers say.

August 30, 2006
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Watch video and animated stills of an elephant massacre near Chad's Zakouma National Park—evidence of a major poaching problem along the park's borders. Warning: graphic content

August 30, 2006
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See stills and animated images from an aerial survey that has revealed evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of one of the elephants' last central African strongholds. Warning: graphic images

August 30, 2006
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.

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August 30, 2006
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Though it probably won't become a hurricane again, Ernesto has picked up strength and will bring heavy rains to south Florida and the Carolinas, forecasters say.

August 29, 2006
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Global warming may release methane—a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide—that increases temperatures and unlooses more methane, new research suggests.

August 29, 2006
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Larger than Texas and California combined, an underground South American reservoir is awash in controversy, thanks to allegations of a secret U.S. takeover.

August 28, 2006
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Although the first hurricane of the season has weakened to a tropical storm, it could gain strength again as it approaches the Keys, experts warn.

August 28, 2006
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Reports of masked marauders killing pet cats in the capital city of Olympia may greatly exaggerate the threat from wild raccoons, a wildlife expert contends.

Updated August 31, 2006
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita inundated Louisiana marshes with salt water, and a subsequent drought means that the waters have stayed too salty for gators to comfortably reproduce.

August 25, 2006
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Deep-sea drilling rigs and coral reefs host hundreds of unknown bacteria that may provide powerful new drugs, scientists say.

August 25, 2006
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This week: Pluto not a planet, "Atlantis" eruption update, jellyfish invasion, ant speed record, interview with Kilimanjaro's quickest conqueror, more.

February 28, 2007
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A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the U.S. Gulf Coast, residents there wait uneasily to see what the 2006 hurricane season might send their way.

August 24, 2006
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On the hurricane's first anniversary, New Orleans is a patchwork of recovery and neglect, as seen in photos showing landmarks as they looked a year ago and today.

August 23, 2006
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Follow a day-by-day account of Katrina's wrath, from its birth in the Atlantic Ocean to the storm's costly aftermath. Warning: contains some graphic imagery

August 23, 2006

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