Topic: NATURE - on September 23, 2003 at 2:54:05 PM CEST
Arctic ice shelf splits
The largest ice shelf in the Arctic has fractured, releasing all the water from the freshwater lake it dammed. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is located on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavut territory.
The huge mass of floating ice, which has been in place for at least 3,000 years, is now in two major pieces.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 23, 2003 at 11:29:40 AM CEST
Skippy to the rescue
A female kangaroo has saved an Australian farmer's life by alerting his family that he was lying unconscious in a field.
The pet kangaroo, Lulu, made noises outside the family home in the state of Victoria, until the farmer's wife paid attention.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 21, 2003 at 12:05:15 PM CEST
Uno: Ozonloch erreicht Rekordgröße
Die Vereinten Nationen haben davor gewarnt, dass das diesjährige Ozonloch auf Rekordgröße anwachsen könnte. Seine maximale Ausdehnung werde es Ende September erlangen.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 20, 2003 at 5:27:46 PM CEST
Russians lost in mushroom heaven
A bumper mushroom crop in Russia this year has pleased everyone except officials of the Emergencies Ministry in St Petersburg.
They are the ones that have to go looking for mushroom hunters who get lost in the forests near the city - a total of 121 people since 1 August.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 19, 2003 at 7:33:04 PM CEST
When giant guinea pigs roamed the Earth
Herds of buffalo-sized guinea pigs roamed South America millions of years ago, according to a study of a fossil that is today recognised as the biggest rodent ever discovered.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 19, 2003 at 1:12:35 PM CEST
Reporter measures wind gusts in Virginia Beach
NBC’s Brian Williams and Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel are blown down a Virginia Beach, Va., street while trying to measure the speed of wind gusts between two structures.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 19, 2003 at 12:06:29 PM CEST
Büffelgroßes Nagetier entdeckt
Entdeckung in Südamerika: Anhand neuer Knochenfunde haben Forscher jetzt eine genauere Vorstellung vom größten bekannten Nagetier gewonnen.
Paläontologen haben in Venezuela versteinerte Überreste von zwei Tieren einer Art «Riesen-Meerschweinchen» gefunden. Die Größe der prähistorischen Nagetiere übersteigt das eher handliche Format ihrer heute lebenden Verwandten um ein Vielfaches.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 19, 2003 at 1:49:37 AM CEST
EYEWALL OF ISABEL COMING ASHORE ON THE NORTH CAROLINA OUTER BANKS
The NOAA National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., reports that at 11 a.m. EDT the center of Hurricane Isabel was located near latitude 34.4 north, longitude 75.7 west or about 55 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C. This position is also about 50 miles east-southeast of Cape Lookout, N.C. The eyewall of Isabel, where the strongest winds are located, is currently coming ashore along the southern Outer Banks.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 18, 2003 at 1:58:07 PM CEST
Sex trap for giant squid
A team of scientists from New Zealand is hoping to use sex to record the first ever images of a live giant squid.
Marine biologist Dr Steve O'Shea is leading the group hoping to lure the huge cephalopod into view by taking advantage of what he believes is an annual migration of the animals to a particular area in New Zealand waters.
He thinks the female giant squid - like its cousin the cuttlefish - may secrete a sexual scent to attract a mate.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 18, 2003 at 1:20:23 PM CEST
Hurricane Isabel off the US East Coast Picture
2003/260 - 09/17 at 18 :24 UTC Hurricane Isabel off the US East Coast (afternoon overpass) Satellite: Aqua - Pixel size: 2km - Alternate pixel size: 1km | 500m | 250m
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Topic: NATURE - on September 18, 2003 at 1:47:56 AM CEST
Pumpkin Records
Giant Pumpkins:
After growers optimistically tried for years to break the 1,000 pound barrier, the barrier fell twice in the same year. That year was 1996. Each year since then, the record has fallen to an even larger pumpkin.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 18, 2003 at 1:12:10 AM CEST
Mysterious squid deaths investigated
Scientists are trying to find out what caused two enormous squids, one of them 40 feet long, to wash up dead on Spain's northern coast this week.
"It's not a natural death and it's not the Prestige," Luis Laria, president of marine protection agency CEPESMA said, referring to a massive oil spill from the Prestige tanker late last year. He declined to speculate on the cause.
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