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AP Science NewsBrief at 8:58 a.m. EST
(Associated Press Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Grand Canyon to change 'unfair' permit systemFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) _ Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system. Now those who want the coveted permits either show up in person or try their luck with mail or fax machines on the day the permits become available.
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since KyotoWASHINGTON (AP) _ Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost trillions of tons of ice. Mountain glaciers in Europe, South America, Asia and Africa are shrinking faster than before.
Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snagCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ A pair of astronauts stepped out on the third and final spacewalk of their mission Monday to take care of some odd jobs at the International Space station. Dr. Robert Satcher Jr. and Randolph Bresnik _ the father of a new baby girl _ got started on the work an hour late.
Big Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2 directionsGENEVA (AP) _ Scientists working on the world's largest atom smasher say they are now circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs. Steve Myers, the director for accelerators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, says the development Monday brings the Large Hadron Collider closer to full operation.
Denmark: 65 world leaders for UN climate summitCOPENHAGEN (AP) _ Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday. But the world's top three carbon polluters _ the United States, China and India _ have not indicated whether their leaders will attend the meeting, and that could have a big impact on its chances of reaching a deal.
Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelfLONDON (AP) _ An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England. Christie's auction house said Sunday the book _ one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 _ had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.
Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate dealKONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (AP) _ Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse has produced a potential multibillion-dollar bonanza. In an era of climate change regulation and carbon trading, Ukraine, ironically, is profiting from the smokeless smokestacks of its industrial shutdown.
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of TurinROME (AP) _ A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery. Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says in a new book that she used computer-enhanced images of the shroud to decipher faintly written words in Greek, Latin and Aramaic scattered across the cloth.
Thousands of strange creatures found deep in oceanNEW ORLEANS (AP) _ The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits. A report released Sunday recorded 17,650 species living below 656 feet, the point where sunlight ceases. The findings were the latest update on a 10-year census of marine life.
Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debateLONDON (AP) _ Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online _ stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change. The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said in a statement Saturday that the hackers had entered the server and stolen data at its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change. The university said police are investigating the theft of the information, but could not confirm if all the materials posted online are genuine.
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