Topic: NATURE - on March 4, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CET
Lunar eclipse wows sky watchers
Sky watchers across the world have been enjoying the first total lunar eclipse in more than three years.
The eclipse began at 2018 GMT, with the Moon totally immersed in the shadow of the Earth between 2244 and 2358 GMT.
bbc.co.uk cnn.cominteractivevideoNice composite photo of the lunar eclipse last night Your pictures [BBC] youtube.com arte-redes.com
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Topic: NATURE - on February 28, 2007 at 12:20:00 PM CET
Haifisch in der Vöckla
Kaum zu glauben ist der Fund von Hauptschülern am Ufer der Vöckla in Vöcklabruck. Dort trieb ein Hai im Wasser. Wer den Raubfisch entsorgt hat, ist noch nicht geklärt.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 28, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CET
Volcanic Italian island on alert
Emergency plans have been put into operation after two new craters opened on the summit of the volcanic Italian island of Stromboli.
One of the new lava streams created on the island, just north of Sicily, has already started flowing into the sea.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 28, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM CET
Deep Inside the Yucatán
IN the depths of a limestone cavern, near a doorway to the Maya underworld, Filomeno Tomay took out a flashlight and held it up to the cave wall. “Es un caballo,” he said softly. (“This is a horse.”)
Mr. Tomay, a stout 66-year-old Maya guide, stood deep inside Cenote Dzitnup, wielding a yellow beam for tourists to reveal a gestalt of conjured shapes on a wall of burled stone.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 27, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
The giant ocean sunfish
The ocean sunfish (mola mola) is the largest bony fish in the world. It is a unique pelagic fish, and specimens of ocean sunfish have been observed up to 3.3 m (11 ft) in length and weighing up to 2,300 kg (5,100 lb).
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Topic: NATURE - on February 25, 2007 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Discovery Biosphere Terrarium
This enclosed landscape offers a safe place to observe plants, animals and insects.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 24, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CET
Rare Upside-Down Rainbow
No, this isn't an upside-down rainbow, and the photographer hasn't faked the picture. It's an unusual phenomenon caused by sunlight shining through a thin, invisible screen of tiny ice crystals high in the sky and has nothing at all to do with the rain.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM CET
Chimpanzees sharpen spikes for bush baby killings
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been observed using sharpened branches as "spears" to hunt other primates.
A report in the journal Current Biology documents 22 instances of chimps in Senegal creating tools to stab their bush baby prey. Bush babies are tiny and much more primitive primates related to the lemurs found in Madagascar.
theregister.co.uk bbc.co.ukwashingtonpost.com Video: Chimps Make and Use "Spears" to Hunt
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Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CET
When Giant Hornets Attack
SWARMS of giant hornets which wipe out honey bees are set to invade Britain — due to global warming.
The 1.8 inch monster insects have already devastated bee populations in huge areas of France.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Glaciers Not On Simple, Upward Trend Of Melting
The variability over such a short time, reported online Feb. 9 on Science magazine's Science Express, underlines the problem in assuming that glacial melting and sea level rise will necessarily occur at a steady upward trajectory, according to lead author Ian Howat, a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center. The paper comes a year after a study in the journal Science revealed that discharge from Greenland's glaciers had doubled between 2000 and 2005, leading some scientists to speculate such changes were on a steady, upward climb.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 22, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM CET
Lunar Eclipse
Saturday, March 3, 2007. Stuck on Earth, we can't see the ring of fire, but we can see the red glow it produces on the moon. The phenomenon will be visible from parts of all seven continents including the eastern half of North America.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 20, 2007 at 2:30:00 PM CET
Duckling born with four legs
A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of London, unveiled the duckling to reporters on Saturday.
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