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Nitrous oxide emissions are going up as farmers grow more food, possibly thwarting the recovery of the fragile ozone layer.

August 27, 2009
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Armed with needle-sharp fangs and powerful limbs sprouting from its head, the creature was found in the world's longest underwater lava tube in the Canary Islands.

August 26, 2009
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As the Dead Sea—really a giant freshwater lake—dramatically shrinks, Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian environmentalists have begun to devise ways to slow the decline.

August 26, 2009
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More than a decade after the predators were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies, up to 300 wolves may be killed this fall. But environmental groups claim the population has not recovered enough to endure such a loss.

August 24, 2009
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After a century of pollution in the Seine, salmon are once again swimming by the Eiffel Tower in numbers that exceed "anything we could imagine," a French official says.

August 24, 2009
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Lightning that shoots upward from clouds can carry as much electric charge as the strongest bolts that strike the ground, a new study says.

August 23, 2009
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Amid chaos stemming from a March coup d'etat, hunting gangs are killing Madagascar's rare primates as bush meat for upscale restaurants, conservationists say.

August 21, 2009
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See a torch-bedecked bull, a rocket go out in a blaze of glory, a green roof get mowed, and more in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.

August 20, 2009
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A new study finds that people naturally walk in circles when their sense of direction is lost. Researchers had people walk in the desert and through a forest. Video.

August 20, 2009
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Like police officers and nurses, cleaner fish on coral reefs wear certain colors and patterns to let "clients" know where to find them—and not to eat them—a new study says.

August 20, 2009
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But hold the champagne. As plastic decomposes, it releases toxic chemicals that can harm ocean life—and possibly us—a new study says.

August 20, 2009
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Despite unfriendly conditions for Atlantic hurricane formation, Hurricane Bill is now at Category 4, and is expected to stay that way. Said one meteorologist: "Bill is lucky."

August 19, 2009
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A popular method of disinfecting water with sunlight may not help protect people from water borne disease, due partly to stigma, a new study shows.

August 18, 2009
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The world's seafood appetite is growing but its oceans are increasingly empty. See what science has dreamed up to fill the void--from untethered "Oceanspheres" to sharp-edged "SeaStations."

August 18, 2009
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Among fertile farms once rich with wetlands, conservationists are recruiting Washington State farmers to temporarily inundate their fields in an effort to bring back habitat for migratory shorebirds.

August 18, 2009

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