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City of Vancouver proclaims country’s first Meatless Monday

Vancouver has become the first city in Canada to embrace 'Meatless Monday,' encouraging residents to forego meat for one day a week for the sake of the planet and their health.

Tibet Provides Passage For Chemicals To Reach The Stratosphere

Pasadena, CA - ASA and university researchers have found that thunderstorms over Tibet provide a main pathway for water vapor and chemicals to travel from Earth's lower atmosphere - where human activity directly affects atmospheric composition - to the stratosphere, where the protective ozone layer resides.

Amid Mines and Barbed Wire, Wildlife Thrives in a Cold War No Man’s Land

Yanggu, South Korea - Within earshot of a truckload of South Korean troops, a family of wild boars approaches a military base looking for an afternoon snack. Just down the road, water deer dash into a forest dotted with mines.

U.S. Patent Office to use wiki-based peer reviews of patent applications

Washington, D.C. - The US Patent and Trademark Office has received praise for officially launching the Peer to Patent program -- the purpose of Peer to Patent is to find patents that have been issued for already made products or items that don't properly qualify for a patent. Because the USPTO usually does not have the manpower and time to thoroughly check every patent that comes into the office, many are unjustly rubber stamped. A New York law school helped develop the Peer to Patent program...

India and US to explore the Moon in 2008

Bangalore, India - Under an accord between the countries' space agencies, India's first unmanned lunar mission will carry two scientific payloads from the US agency, NASA.

A light with a bright future

USA - Light bulbs have blazed for more than 125 years, and people still can't seem to get enough of them. But as energy costs soar, the future of the traditional incandescent light bulb is beginning to dim.

China reports discovery of 2,000-year-old walled city ruins

Beijing, China - Archeologists have unearthed the ruins of a 2,000-year-old walled city in a reservoir on China's northeastern border with North Korea, a news report said Wednesday.

Women attracted to men who like children: study

Santa Barbara, CA - Women can pick up cues about how men feel about children from their faces and use the subtle signs to rate them as potential partners, scientists said on Wednesday.

Hamas and Fatah agree to end clashes

Palestine - Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to end a spate of armed clashes at an emergency meeting in Gaza City.

Fisherman Nets Ancient Statue in Greece

Athens, Greece - A Greek fisherman has handed over to authorities a large section of an ancient bronze statue brought up in his nets in the Aegean Sea, officials said on Monday.

Man Crosses U.S. to Walk Off Pounds, Past

Fairfield, New Jersey, USA - Steve Vaught has lost more than 100 pounds on his walk across the country, but he's regaining his sanity.

Dolphins Name Themselves

Sarasota Bay, FL - A high-pitched "wee-o-wee-o-wee-o-wee" whistle might not sound like much to you, but it's exactly how a dolphin might introduce itself.

Beach Patrols Help Sea Turtles Rebound

St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - Beach patrols to save dwindling leatherback sea turtle populations appear to be working on the Caribbean island of St. Croix.

Ancient Puebloans reburied at park

Towaoc, Colorado - "A wrong has been righted," a New Mexico tribal leader said Thursday of the recent reburial in Mesa Verde National Park of the remains of more than 1,500 Ancestral Puebloans.

Meteorites Discovered To Carry Interstellar Carbon

Washington, DC - Like an interplanetary spaceship carrying passengers, meteorites have long been suspected of ferrying relatively young ingredients of life to our planet.

Copying nature could save us energy, study shows

Bath, England - New technologies that mimic the way insects, plants and animals overcome engineering problems could help reduce our dependence on energy, according to new research published in the Royal Society journal Interface.

Evolutionary forces explain why women live longer than men

Ann Arbor, Michigan - Despite research efforts to find modern factors that would explain the different life expectancies of men and women, the gap is actually ancient and universal, according to University of Michigan researchers.

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