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• Experts offer scaled-back sea level rise forecast
WASHINGTON - Worldwide sea levels may rise by about 2.6 to 6.6 feet by 2100 thanks to global warming, but dire predictions of larger increases seem unrealistic, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. They examined scenarios for loss of ice from Greenland ...
• Environmentalists can't corral Palin
In her 20 months as governor, Palin has questioned the conclusions of federal marine scientists who say the Cook Inlet beluga whale needs protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
• Broads give $400 million to biomed institute
The goal of the institute was to bring together scientists and students to take advantage of the information revealed by the Human Genome Project and use it to tackle some of the world's toughest health problems from cancer to infectious, psychiatric ...
• The last mammoths in Siberia were American
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory — from Western Europe to Central North America — that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species ...
• Gene map shows no two cancers alike
WASHINGTON - U.S. scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner ...