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Australia seeks to breed test-tube sharks By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - The endangered gray nurse shark is its own worst enemy, its young eat each other in the womb, so Australian scientists have a radical rescue plan to artificially inseminate...

Elephants have emotions 'just like humans' By Duncan Guy Elephant conservation should be considered in much the same way humans consider plans for their own health and well-being, an elephant management workshop heard on Tuesday. Sociality, which is the...

Australia, US form climate change pact: report Australia and the United States , who have been criticised for remaining outside the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gases, have now reportedly formed their own pact on climate change. A report in The Australian...

U.S.-led climate plan won't supplant Kyoto –experts By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A U.S.-led Asian-Pacific accord on spreading technology to fight global warming has hazy targets and is unlikely to end up supplanting the...

Environmentalists condemn new global warming pact SYDNEY (AFP) - Environmentalists have condemned a new pact against global warming by the and five Asia-Pacific countries, saying it was self-serving and would not work. The agreement by the US, Australia,...

Darwin 's Tortoises More Diverse Than He Knew By Robert ROY BRITT LiveScience Senior Writer The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of natural selection to describe the evolutionary diversity of species....

Tracking Typhoon Banyan. The red circle shows where winds are 50 knots or more, the yellow circle where they are 30 knots, and the black circles show the path the typhoon will take over the next four days across central and northern Japan. (Map courtesy...

Typhoon Banyan is blowing northwards heading for 's East coast. (Photo courtesy Digital Typhoon )

Insurers Link Global Warming with Higher Cost of Storms TOKYO , , July 25, 2005 (ENS) - A powerful typhoon in the Pacific is heading straight towards eastern , according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Typhoon Banyan is expected to close in on the...