U.S. wants info on China missile test (AP)

   

AP - Nearly two weeks after China successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon, questions persist in Washington about Beijing's intentions.

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Precipitation on the wane (weather.com)

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Report has 'smoking gun' on climate (AP)

   

AP - Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.

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Experts: Alps glaciers will melt by 2050 (AP)

   

AP - Glaciers will all but disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists warned Monday, basing their bleak outlook on mounting evidence of slow but steady melting of the continental ice sheets.

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CEOs plead for mandatory emissions caps (AP)

   

AP - Chief executives of 10 major corporations urged Congress on Monday to require limits on greenhouse gases this year, contending voluntary efforts to combat climate change are inadequate.

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Defence genetics unscrambled

   US scientists unravel the genetic make-up of cells vital to the body's defences against infection.
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Flying dinos had bi-plane design

   The first flying dinosaurs took to the air using two wings, just like a World War I bi-plane, a study shows.
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Dinosaur may have resembled the biplane (AP)

   AP - When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation. Today, the biplane is widely considered an old-fashioned rarity.
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Two earthquakes strike off Indonesia (AFP)

   

AFP - Two earthquakes struck off Indonesia, meteorologists said, following a major undersea quake that left one person dead.

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Heavy snowfall scarce today (weather.com)

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CEOs ask Bush to back climate protection (AP)

   

AP - The chief executives of 10 major corporations, on the eve of the State of the Union address, urged President Bush on Monday to support mandatory reductions in climate-changing pollution and establish reductions targets.

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'Bionic' cat eyes may help humans (AP)

   AP - Gingersnap, a 4-year-old Abyssinian, rolled lazily on the examining table while Dr. Kristina Narfstrom rubbed the cat's cinnamon-colored head.
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Grave concerns over beached ship

   Two containers of hazardous chemicals are washed overboard as oil leaks from a beached cargo ship.
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Talks tackle tuna-stock decline

   A major effort to reverse the dramatic decline in global tuna stocks gets under way in Japan.
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Indian capsule returns from space

   India says an orbiting space capsule has returned to Earth, paving the way for an unmanned Moon mission.
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Glaciers may vanish from Alps by 2050 (AP)

   AP - Most glaciers will disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists told a conference on climate change Monday, basing their bleak outlook on evidence of slow but steady melting of the region's continental ice sheets.
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When a killer cloud hit Britain

   The eruption of a volcano in Iceland 200 years ago sent a huge toxic cloud across Western Europe killing many thousands.
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Thames whale skeleton on display

   The skeleton of the whale which became stranded in the Thames is to go on display at a newspaper office.
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Oil to be moved from ship

   Officials hope to start pumping oil from the stricken ship MSC Napoli, to prevent it polluting the Devon coast.
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'Altruistic' brain region found

   Scientists say they have found part of the brain that predicts whether a person will be selfish or altruistic.
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Defence cell genetics unscrambled

   US scientists unravel the genetic make-up of cells vital to the body's defences against infection.
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Pollution said destroying pre-Aztec Mexican ruins

   MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Oil refineries and power stations pumping acid air pollutants along Mexico's Gulf coast threaten to erase carved stone murals at the pre-Aztec ruined city of El Tajin, a scientist said on Sunday.
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Bush expected to stress energy security (AP)

   

AP - A year after warning America of its addiction to oil, President Bush is expected to renew concerns about energy security in his State of the Union address. But will the rhetoric be followed by action? Up to now, the record has been mixed.

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