Saturday, November 16, 2024

Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer

SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to tap an energy source key to the fight against climate change: They’ve each produced very impressive magnets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer

SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to tap an energy source key to the fight against climate change: They’ve each produced very impressive magnets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer

SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to tap an energy source key to the fight against climate change: They’ve each produced very impressive magnets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Magnet milestones move distant nuclear fusion dream closer

SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have marked similar milestones in their respective efforts to tap an energy source key to the fight against climate change: They’ve each produced very impressive magnets.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

'Nowhere to run': UN report says global warming nears limits

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

UN report: Global warming is likely to blow past Paris limit

Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations calls a “code red for humanity.”
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Cicadas were flying; for hours, Biden's press plane was not

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Cicadas were flying; for hours, Biden's press plane was not

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Cicadas were flying; for hours, Biden's press plane was not

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Cicadas foil timely takeoff of press plane for Biden UK trip

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

The
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Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

The
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Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

The
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Science chief wants next pandemic vaccine ready in 100 days

The
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New White House panel aims to separate science, politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

New White House panel aims to separate science, politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week's climate summit. But there’s still a long way to go, and the road to a safer future gets even rockier from here.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders shared tales of climate-friendly breakthroughs — and feverish quests for more — to close President Joe Biden's virtual global climate summit on Friday, from Kenyans abandoning kerosene lanterns for solar to Israeli start-ups straining for more efficient storage batteries.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week's climate summit. But there’s still a long way to go, and the road to a safer future gets even rockier from here.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders shared tales of climate-friendly breakthroughs — and feverish quests for more — to close President Joe Biden's virtual global climate summit on Friday, from Kenyans abandoning kerosene lanterns for solar to Israeli start-ups straining for more efficient storage batteries.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week's climate summit. But there’s still a long way to go, and the road to a safer future gets even rockier from here.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders shared tales of climate-friendly breakthroughs — and feverish quests for more — to close President Joe Biden's virtual global climate summit on Friday, from Kenyans abandoning kerosene lanterns for solar to Israeli start-ups straining for more efficient storage batteries.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

In Biden climate show, watch for cajoling, conflict, pathos

WASHINGTON (AP) — It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever-worsening global warming in
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week's climate summit. But there’s still a long way to go, and the road to a safer future gets even rockier from here.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Go forth and spend: Call for action closes US climate summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders shared tales of climate-friendly breakthroughs — and feverish quests for more — to close President Joe Biden's virtual global climate summit on Friday, from Kenyans abandoning kerosene lanterns for solar to Israeli start-ups straining for more efficient storage batteries.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Summit catapults world ahead in crucial year to curb warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world moved closer to curbing the worst of global warming after this week's climate summit. But there’s still a long way to go, and the road to a safer future gets even rockier from here.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

In Biden climate show, watch for cajoling, conflict, pathos

WASHINGTON (AP) — It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever-worsening global warming in
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

In Biden climate show, watch for cajoling, conflict, pathos

WASHINGTON (AP) — It won't rival Netflix for drama, but 40 world leaders will try to save the planet from ever-worsening global warming in
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Biden's virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch

WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be reduced to images on a screen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Biden's virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch

WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be reduced to images on a screen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden's virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch

WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be reduced to images on a screen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden's virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch

WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be reduced to images on a screen.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate talks

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is including rivals Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration, an event the U.S. hopes will help shape, speed up and deepen global efforts to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution, …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

AP FACT CHECK: Biden on virus deaths, Kerry's climate crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his team are getting the numbers wrong when they talk about the enormity of the mounting
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

World leaders applaud US formal return to Paris climate pact

The United States is back in the Paris climate accord, just 107 days after it left.
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Back in Paris accord, US vows no more sidelining of climate

The United States officially returned to the Paris global climate accord on Friday, and U.S. leaders declared the nation could not afford to ever sideline the growing climate crisis again.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

AP FACT CHECK: Biden on virus deaths, Kerry's climate crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his team are getting the numbers wrong when they talk about the enormity of the mounting
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Back in Paris pact, US vows no more sidelining of climate

The United States officially returned to the Paris global climate accord on Friday, and President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders declared the nation could not afford to sideline the growing climate crisis again.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Back in Paris pact, US faces tougher climate steps ahead

World leaders welcomed the United States' official return to the Paris climate accord Friday, but politically trickier steps lie just ahead for President Joe Biden, including setting a tough national target in coming months for cutting damaging fossil fuel emissions.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

World leaders applaud US formal return to Paris climate pact

The United States is back in the Paris climate accord, just 107 days after it left.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Fighting climate change in America means changes to America

Climate isn’t the only thing changing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Fighting climate change in America means changes to America

Climate isn’t the only thing changing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Fighting climate change in America means changes to America

Climate isn’t the only thing changing.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would transform how Americans drive and get their power.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would transform how Americans drive and get their power.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Biden puts U.S. back into fight to slow global warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden returned the United States to the worldwide fight to slow global warming in one of his first official acts Wednesday and immediately launched a series of climate-friendly efforts that would transform how Americans drive and get their power.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record

Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Scientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world's insects

The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said.
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Scientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world's insects

The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

One-third of America's rivers have changed color since 1984

America’s rivers are changing color — and people are behind many of the shifts, a new study said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals

The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Study: Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals

The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Watch out LA: Feds calculate riskiest, safest places in US

Spending her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her home hard. Her grandfather was affected by recent wildfires in neighboring Orange County.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Watch out LA: Feds calculate riskiest, safest places in US

Spending her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her home hard. Her grandfather was affected by recent wildfires in neighboring Orange County.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Watch out LA: Feds calculate riskiest, safest places in US

Spending her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her home hard. Her grandfather was affected by recent wildfires in neighboring Orange County.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

It's close but 2020 likely to end up hottest year on record

Just how warm Earth stays this December will determine if 2020 goes down as the hottest year on record. And it’s looking a lot like it will.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

EXPLAINER: The real math behind "net zero" carbon emissions

More than 100 countries — responsible for about two-thirds of the world's heat-trapping gases — have
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Five years on, signs that Paris climate accord is working

The forecast for global warming is looking a little less bleak in the long term, but not so rosy in the short term.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020

A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

UN calls on humanity to end 'war on nature,' go carbon-free

As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its “war on nature” and commits to a future free of planet-warming carbon pollution.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

UN: Warmer world in 2020 busted weather records, hurt people

An overheating world obliterated weather records in 2020, creating an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts and ice melt, the United Nations’ weather agency reported Wednesday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Hurricanes stay stronger longer after landfall than in past

Hurricanes are keeping their staying power longer once they make landfall, spreading more inland destruction, according to a new study.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Final weeks of historic hurricane season bring new storms

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Just when you thought it should be safe to go back to the water, the record-setting tropics are going crazy. Again.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Study: Fix to food climate problem doesn't require veganism

The world likely can’t keep global warming to a relatively safe minimum unless we change how we grow, eat and throw away our food, but we don’t need to all go vegan, a new study says.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

US formally exits Paris pact aiming to curb climate change

BERLIN (AP) — The United States on Wednesday formally left the
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Flash of luck: Astronomers find cosmic radio burst source

A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe?
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US formally exits Paris pact aiming to curb climate change

BERLIN (AP) — The United States on Wednesday formally left the
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms

What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms

What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

US Paris climate pact exit, vote may dictate how world warms

What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Study: 1 to 2 million tons of US plastic trash go astray

More than a million tons a year of America's plastic trash isn't ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Study: 1 to 2 million tons of US plastic trash go astray

More than a million tons a year of America's plastic trash isn't ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's skewed indictment of wind power

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's dismissal of wind power as a glitchy, pricey, bird-slaughtering way to make electricity is out of step with the times.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

AP-NORC/USAFacts poll: US trust in COVID-19 information down

Americans have lost trust across the board in the people and institutions informing them about
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Forecasters: Drought more likely than blizzards this winter

Don’t expect much of a winter wallop this year, except for the pain of worsening drought, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year

Earth sweltered to a record hot September last month, with U.S. climate officials saying there’s nearly a two-to-one chance that 2020 will end up as the globe’s hottest year on record.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year

Earth sweltered to a record hot September last month, with U.S. climate officials saying there’s nearly a two-to-one chance that 2020 will end up as the globe’s hottest year on record.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Trump clinches GOP nomination with Tuesday primary wins

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination, surpassing the necessary delegate threshold.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Sanders wins Northern Mariana Islands caucus, 4 delegates

WASHINGTON (AP) —
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Sanders' formula for delegate victory evaporating in March

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' mathematical path to winning enough delegates for the Democratic nomination is rapidly disappearing.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

'Odd' quirk raises delegate stakes in Tuesday's elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — A quirk in how delegates are won under Democratic Party rules is raising the stakes for Tuesday's elections, allowing a candidate to make up ground in the race quickly — or fall further behind.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

'Odd' quirk raises delegate stakes in Tuesday's elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — A quirk in how delegates are won under Democratic Party rules is raising the stakes for Tuesday's elections, allowing a candidate to make up ground in the race quickly — or fall further behind.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

'Odd' quirk raises delegate stakes in Tuesday's elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — A quirk in how delegates are won under Democratic Party rules is raising the stakes for Tuesday's elections, allowing a candidate to make up ground in the race quickly — or fall further behind.
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One more victory: Biden wins most Super Tuesday delegates

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has put an exclamation point on his Super Tuesday victories by winning the most delegates on the presidential primary calendar's biggest night.
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One more victory: Biden wins most Super Tuesday delegates

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has put an exclamation point on his Super Tuesday victories by winning the most delegates on the presidential primary calendar's biggest night.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Fat sense: Scientists show we have a distinct taste for fat

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Study: Weather patterns that bring heatwaves happening more

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

May a month of extreme weather around world

WASHINGTON — Even for a world getting used to wild weather, May seems stuck on strange.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Antarctica's mysteries could be key to future

DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctica - Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Winter weather: A tale of two nations

WASHINGTON - It may be hard to believe for a country that's shivering from Maine to Miami, but 2015 has gotten off to a rather toasty start.
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Cute chick rover

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Alien-like, swimming dinosaur unveiled NASA's newest human spacecraft on the move

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Is there anybody out there?

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Jurassic mosquito: Ancient bug's last supper still in fossil

In a steamy tropical forest 46 million years ago, a prehistoric mosquito bit a critter, drew blood and was blown into a lake that now is the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. Belly full, she died and sank.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

A bug problem with some bite

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It's getting hot in here

WASHINGTON - As the world gets warmer, people are more likely to get hot under the collar, scientists say. A massive new study finds that aggressive acts like committing violent crimes and waging war become more likely with each added degree.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

A mighty wind

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Greenhouse gas levels set record

WASHINGTON - Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Rocket to Mars

WASHINGTON - In less than five years, a married couple could be on their way toward Mars in an audacious but bare-bones private mission that would slingshot them around the red planet, under a plan announced Wednesday by a financial tycoon and his team.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Old-fashioned battery holds back technology

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Firm hopes to sell $1.5 billion moon trips

WASHINGTON - Attention wealthy nations and billionaires: A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Let the debate continue

WASHINGTON - Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax.
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Forecasters warn East Coast about 'Frankenstorm'

WASHINGTON - All the spare parts appear to be coming together to create what forecasters are calling "Frankenstorm," a monster combination of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe snow that could cause havoc along the East Coast just before Halloween next week.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Earth-sized planet found 'nearby'

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

NASA: Strange and sudden massive ice melt in Greenland

WASHINGTON - Nearly all of Greenland's massive ice sheet suddenly started melting a bit this month, a freak event that surprised scientists.
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Get ready to turn up the air conditioning

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Baboons can learn to spot real words

Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally KITE comes up.
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Huge solar storm races toward Earth

WASHINGTON - Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Where's the snow?

WASHINGTON - Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Planting zones reflect warm-up

WASHINGTON - Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
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NOAA: Another hot year

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Huge plane to launch spaceships

SEATTLE - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the world's biggest plane to help launch cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fueled by technology tycoons clamoring to write America's next chapter in spaceflight.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Earth-like planet found

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Is drilling responsible for Oklahoma quakes?

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A spectacular sight at night

WASHINGTON - A baffling solar storm pulled colorful northern lights unusually far south, surprising space weather experts and treating skywatchers to a rare and spectacular treat.
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A peaceful world

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Daunting space task - send astronauts to asteroid

HOUSTON- With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

NASA rocket will pack extra punch

WASHINGTON - To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

It's a wild, wild world

WASHINGTON - Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.
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New theory: Earth once had two moons

WASHINGTON - In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat."
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Applause, but no tears at Mission Control Space shuttle program ends

HOUSTON - There was no crying in Mission Control.
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NASA's old guard: Save Our Shuttle

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A somewhat generational battle over NASA's future is escalating even as NASA is about to close the book on the space shuttle era.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Power grid change may disrupt clocks

WASHINGTON - A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers - and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

We've seen fire, we've seen rain in wild April

WASHINGTON - April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Scientists skeptical of meteorite holes hosting alien life

WASHINGTON - The gaps and stringy fibers in these space rocks sure look like bacteria, and a NASA researcher has caused a stir with claims that they're fossils of alien life. But as NASA found 15 years ago, looks can be deceiving.
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Is there anybody out there?

WASHINGTON - An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Scientist haunted by misuse of his work

WASHINGTON - David Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how humans hijack his work to make street drugs, sometimes causing overdose deaths.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

A world gone wild

This was the year the Earth struck back.
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Starry starry night

WASHINGTON - The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions.
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Genetically altered salmon just the start

WASHINGTON - We've always played with our food - even before we knew about genes or how to change them.
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Microbes eating up BP oil in Gulf

WASHINGTON - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Spill panel big on policy, not engineering

WASHINGTON - The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about "America's addiction to oil." One member has blogged about it regularly.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Obama: On to Mars!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - President Barack Obama boldly predicted Thursday his new plans for space exploration would lead American astronauts on historic, almost fantastic journeys to an asteroid and then to Mars - and in his lifetime - relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Obama space plan angers old heroes

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Call it NASA: The Next Generation. The president is pointing America toward a new direction in space, and some heroes from NASA's long-ago glory days don't like it.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'Big Bang machine' a big deal?

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang - a success that kick-started a megabillion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Study: Cuts in greenhouse gas could lessen warming

WASHINGTON - A new scientific study finds that the absolute worst of global warming can still be avoided if the entire world cuts emission of greenhouse gases the way President Barack Obama and Europe want.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Study: Cuts in greenhouse gas could lessen warming

WASHINGTON - A new scientific study finds that the absolute worst of global warming can still be avoided if the entire world cuts emission of greenhouse gases the way President Barack Obama and Europe want.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Study: Cuts in greenhouse gas could lessen warming

WASHINGTON - A new scientific study finds that the absolute worst of global warming can still be avoided if the entire world cuts emission of greenhouse gases the way President Barack Obama and Europe want.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO