The tiny Maguire daisy, which grows in the desert southwest of the United States, has been plucked from the edge of extinction after a 25-year conservation effort, US officials have announced.
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Pit bulls raised to be vicious fighters by former pro football quarterback Michael Vick are slowly getting used to life outside the ring and moving toward adoption with help of a southern Utah animal sanctuary.
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Washington, D.C., USA -
President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday expanding and protecting US public parks and wilderness areas from oil and gas development, billed as the largest US conservation measure in more than 15 years.
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -
While counterintuitive, a recession is actually a terrific time to start a business.
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA -
Sandcastle worms using their natural glue as a binder for their homes are a model for University of Utah researchers creating a synthetic version for humans.
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Bones from six dinosaurs, as well as tree and clam fossils are found in a Utah quarry.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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Oslo, Norway -
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
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Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA -
Ford Motor Co. said a speed record set last week by the company's prototype fuel-cell car could hasten use of the technology in its vehicles.
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Los Angeles, California, USA -
A powerful clot-busting drug used in stroke and heart attack patients might also reduce amputations in people with severe frostbite, researchers say.
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Source: Terra Daily, Fri January 21, 2011 