Overfishing imperils fish in deep waters (AP)

   AP - With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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No gas in Pa. house gutted by fire (AP)

   

AP - Natural gas service had been turned off nearly two years ago at a house where a woman and six children died in a fire and another person was seriously injured, officials said Sunday.

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New Zealand PM pressures Japan to move stricken whaler (AFP)

   

AFP - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark warned that the world would not forgive Japan if it failed to move a crippled whaling ship and consequently caused an environmental disaster.

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Storminess shifts west (weather.com)

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New Zealand warns over crippled whaler (AP)

   

AP - New Zealand's prime minister warned Japanese whalers Monday they would face international condemnation if their crippled ship caused an environmental disaster on the Antarctic coast.

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Tiny duckling has rare mutation: 4 legs (AP)

   

AP - Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but he's the first to have four of them.

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Disclose all emissions, UK urged

   Britain's official figures for carbon emissions vastly understate its contribution to climate change, a report concludes.
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Jerusalem site may contain prayer room (AP)

   

AP - An Israeli archaeologist said the site of an archaeological dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation Sunday.

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Science finding ways to regrow fingers (AP)

   

AP - Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel.

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Science group: Warming a mounting threat (AP)

   AP - The world's largest general scientific society on Sunday joined the concern over global climate change, calling it a "growing threat to society."
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'Now or never' for climate action

   EU nations must back plans to cut emissions by 30% by 2020 or risk jeopardising future global climate efforts, ministers warn.
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NASA mission launched to unveil secrets of Northern Lights (AFP)

   

AFP - The US space agency NASA has launched its first five-satellite mission on board a single rocket aiming to unlock the age-old mysteries of the aurora borealis.

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Genetics reveal 15 new N.American bird species (Reuters)

   Reuters - Genetic tests of North American birds show what may be 15 new species including ravens and owls -- look alikes that do not interbreed and have wrongly had the same name for centuries, scientists said on Sunday.
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Why Female Bugs Outsize Males (LiveScience.com)

   LiveScience.com - Men and women have got it reversed compared to most of the animal kingdom when it comes to the relative sizes of males and females.
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Windy days for the East; warm on its way (weather.com)

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Isotope science to have wide-ranging impact, NSCL researcher says

   Nuclear science -- and a host of other endeavors that involve the production, study and use of rare isotopes -- is undergoing a quiet but dramatic revolution. That's the conclusion of Brad Sherrill, professor of physics at Michigan State University, who says that the relatively new ability to create novel forms of atomic nuclei may be one of the great, underappreciated transformations in the physical sciences today. Sherrill is based at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL).
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Astronauts should 'ski the Moon'

   Lunar explorers should learn how to cross-country ski to investigate the Moon, an Apollo astronaut says.
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Steering atoms toward better navigation, physicists test Newton and Einstein along the way

   ''Navigation problems-how to get from point A to point B-tell us about space-time,'' says Kasevich, a professor in the departments of Physics and Applied Physics who will speak about atomic sensors February 17 in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ''When we build these de Broglie wave navigation sensors, we're also building sensors that can test these fundamental laws about space-time.''
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Robot watches out for rare bird

   A robot ornithologist has been installed in a wildlife refuge to look for the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Virgin Galactic to Build Underground Spaceport in N.M.

   British owned Virgin Galactic and New Mexico state officials have jointly announced plans to build a new Commercial Spaceport facility, most of which will be underground near the White Sands Missile Range. Construction is expected to begin in early 2007 with its first commercial space flight in late 2008 or early 2009.
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Calif. awards $45M in stem cell grants (AP)

   AP - California's stem cell agency on Friday doled out nearly $45 million in research grants to about 20 state universities and nonprofit research laboratories, far exceeding the federal government's spending on the controversial work.
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Rescuers wait for report from crippled Japanese whaler (AFP)

   

AFP - New Zealand authorities are waiting for crew aboard a crippled Japanese whaling ship to decide whether they need to be towed out of the area, or will remain and continue whaling.

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