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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – The Cayman Islands has announced it will begin culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds. The islands’ environment department said the death would occur in the eastern region of Cayman Brac island, where only 13 brown chicks hatched from 42 eggs laid last …
DENVER (AP) – Exxon Mobil scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even though the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ findings, a new study says. The study reported Thursday in the journal Science looked at research funded by Exxon that not only confirmed climate scientists’ point, but also …
DENVER (AP) – Earth’s fever persisted last year, not reaching a record high but in the top five or six hottest on record, government agencies reported Thursday. Record-shattering warm years are expected in the next few years because of “sustained” climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas, US government scientists have said. …
LONDON (AP) – Virgin Orbit said Thursday that its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the UK failed after its rocket’s upper stage shut down prematurely. The US-based company used a modified Boeing 747 aircraft to carry one of its rockets from Cornwall in southwest England over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. The …
KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The European Union is looking to boost its ability to launch small satellites into space with a new launchpad in Arctic Sweden. European officials and Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated the EU’s first mainland orbital launch complex on Friday during a visit to Sweden by members of the European Commission, …
DENVER (AP) – A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from the unusually dry Gulf of Mexico, is likely to be influenced by climate change, and a decade-long eastward shift of tornadoes to unusually early and came together to form the deadly storm system that hit Alabama Thursday, meteorologists said. And this could …