EPN : Environment / Climate
Goodbye Planet, Hello Plutoid. - Jul 5, 08 - 3:09: PM
After deciding two years ago that Pluto was not a planet, scientists have now dubbed it a celestial body called a 'plutoid', meaning a large orbiting body beyond Neptune not big enough to be a true planet.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Mercury Is Shrinking - Jul 5, 08 - 1:36: PM
The surface of the planet closest to the Sun is shrinking and cracking as its molten iron center cools and a magnetic mystery about the nature of its core is solved.

EPN : Other Agendas
Man Rescues Drowning Bear - Jul 4, 08 - 3:18: AM

A wildlife officer risked his life in Florida when he dove into the sea to save a huge black bear from drowning after the animal had been hit by tranquilizer dart.

EPN : Other Agendas
Underground Pole Dancer - Jun 4, 08 - 12:01: PM

Police in Bucharest are looking for a pole dancer who performs her routines on the city's subway.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Battle to Stop Australian Shark Fishery Kicks Off - Jun 4, 08 - 11:37: AM

Plans by the Queensland, Australia, government to license shark fishing in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area have angered shark conservationists.

EPN : Other Agendas
Tattooed Nude Goes Shopping in Ferrari - Jun 1, 08 - 7:44: AM

A gas station in Dömitz, Germany got some publicity in the German tabloids after a woman strolled in to buy cigarettes stark naked save for a pair of gold stiletto heels, a bracelet and tattoos.  

EPN : Environment / Climate
Phoenix Lander Discovers Ice (or is it rock) on Mars. - May 31, 08 - 11:58: PM

Scientists are elated and say they’re certain  the Phoenix Mars Lander is sitting on a sheet of ice uncovered by it’s thrusters when it landed.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Deep Sea Mining - Will It Rob the Cradle of Life? - May 29, 08 - 11:50: PM

Nautilus Minerals has produced  clean high-grade copper concentrate from its sea-floor site in Papua New Guinea and predicts seafloor mining in the Pacific could grow to become an industry on the same scale as British North Sea oil.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Penguins Poisoned by Decades Old DDT? - May 27, 08 - 12:03: AM

Scientists feel they may have solved why the level of DDT has remained unchanged in penguins despite a global reduction in the pesticide’s use since 1970. Once again global warming is suspected.

EPN : Other Agendas
Zig-Zag Path for the Blind - May 19, 08 - 2:34: AM

Officials in Xi’an, China, have been slammed for building a zigzagged guide path for the blind.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Volcano Spits Lightning - May 12, 08 - 1:07: AM

Scientists are studying lightning generated by the ‘dirty thunderstorm’ which accompanied the first eruption of  Chile’s Chaitén Volcano in 9,000 years.

EPN : Papua New Guinea
Global Warming Spreads Malaria - May 1, 08 - 12:45: AM

As the world warms up, the habitat for the malaria mosquito is moving higher into the Papua New Guinea highlands increasing the death rate.

EPN : Environment / Climate
Asteroid May Hit Mars in January - Dec 23, 07 - 1:33: AM

An asteroid discovered by the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey has a 1-in-75 chance of hitting Mars next month and could blast a crater a kilometer or more in width.

EPN : Environment / Climate
US Relents on Climate Treaty Deadline - Dec 17, 07 - 2:09: AM

After boos and condemnation at the Bali Climate Change Conference, the U-S has agreed to support the 2009 deadline for a new treaty on climate change to replace the Kyoto agreement.

EPN : Other Agendas
Crocodile Hazard to Air Safety - Dec 15, 07 - 4:07: PM
A woman with a large, fluffy, crocodile-shaped bag was turfed off an airline flight in Rome after she refused to move the meter-long plush reptile away from an emergency exit.