Topic: NATURE - on September 13, 2004 at 9:10:00 AM CEST
Bizarre Ways To Stop Hurricanes Includes Nuking Them
Amateur Hurricane-busters have crackpot ideas to beat hurricanes. This includes large fans to blow them away to blowing them up with nuclear warheads.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 11, 2004 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
Mann hatte ein Schwein an der Angel
Anstatt des erhofften Fisches hat ein Angler am Bodensee bei Friedrichshafen ein Schweinchen an der Angel gehabt. Er holte das mittlerweile entkräftete Tier aus dem Wasser.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 10, 2004 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies
Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents from munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat.
Spraying fields with the American sauce Tabasco sends the rabbits "three feet in the air" with shock and running for cover, said a spokesman for a local agriculture cooperative.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 10, 2004 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Hippo alert in Cape Town
A hippo had Cape Town conservation officials on high alert after it escaped from the city's only reserve and wandered near a popular recreational area, apparently in search of female company.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 10, 2004 at 9:37:00 AM CEST
Hungry bear blamed for ruining apple tree
A family is mourning the loss of a beloved apple tree but they believe they know who the culprit was: a hungry brown bear. "There is a bear out there that will rip a tree down," Lavena Sargent said Tuesday morning, a day after returning from a caribou hunting trip.
"It wasn't the world's best apple tree," she said. But at the end of a warm and sunny summer, it was bearing full-size apples for the first time and she was looking forward to picking them.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 2, 2004 at 7:31:00 PM CEST
Bears could keep kids from school
Some 30 brown bears have been terrorising a Transylvanian mountain village and could delay the start of the school year, local authorities say.
Villagers are afraid to let their children go outside, with the bold bears are making off with domestic animals in broad daylight, mayor Nicolae Codreanu told state radio said on Thursday from Poiana Marului, 106 miles north of the Romanian capital Bucharest.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 2, 2004 at 2:03:00 PM CEST
Tiger spotted on Louisiana Army post
A Bengal tiger on the loose in the thick brush surrounding an Army post is winning a game of hide and seek.
About 40 soldiers and sheriff's deputies searched the woods in Fort Polk for a second day Wednesday.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 2, 2004 at 12:34:00 PM CEST
Schwule Möwen durch Umweltverschmutzung
Chemikalien, die die Umwelt verschmutzen, haben auch Langzeitfolgen für Tiere. Dies berichtete der 'New Scientist'. Besonders die Chemikalien DDT und Atrazin seien gefährlich. Unter anderem werde dadurch das Paarungsverhalten der Tiere gestört.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 1, 2004 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Bear Escapes in Latest Breakout
An Andean spectacled bear escaped from its enclosure in Berlin zoo and roamed around a children's playground -- the second breakout since June, when a gorilla leapt over its fence, the zoo's deputy director said on Monday.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 1, 2004 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Newspaper carrier finds snake in delivery tube
James Fletcher was delivering newspapers when he came very close to a large Western Diamondback rattle snake.
The snake was in a newspaper delivery tube. Fletcher was about to put the newspaper in the tube last Thursday when he saw the venomous snake.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 28, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Large fish catches boy in Minnesota
An 11-year-old boy was out hunting frogs on Island Lake when he became the prey. A large fish, probably a muskellunge or a northern pike, attacked the boy about 5 p.m. Thursday as he and his young sister were wading in a foot of water.
The resulting wounds on Mason DeRosier's feet and hands required 11 stitches to close.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 27, 2004 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Dinosaur kangaroos spotted in Chile
Authorities are puzzled in Chile after a number of motorists reported seeing strange creatures resembling dinosaur kangaroos. The sightings were registered on different days by people who had driven along the road linking Iquique and Arica, through the Atacama Desert.
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