Science
U.S. Leases Out Alaska Land For Oil, Gas
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 8 (UPI) — Three companies won the rights to explore and develop oil and natural gas on more than 141,000 acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Energy companies 70 & 148 LLC, Woodstone Resources LLC and ConocoPhillips submitted winning bids for the rights to develop 17 tracts covering roughly 141,739 […]
More Violations For BP In Gulf Of Mexico
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) — British energy company BP is facing five sets of complaints issued by U.S. regulators stemming from last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an agency said. Last month, U.S. regulators suggested there were new regulatory violations uncovered during an analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last […]
Keystone XL Not Political, Obama Says
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) — The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline isn’t going to be used for political fodder, the U.S. president said during meetings with Canada’s prime minster. U.S. President Barack Obama met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House Wednesday. Obama, during a news conference, said he discussed TransCanada’s plans […]
Mars Rover Finds More Evidence Of Water
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) — The Opportunity Mars rover has found powerful evidence of liquid water activity on the planet’s surface, NASA says. The rover has found and photographed bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum deposited by water, evidence of a past wet environment on Mars, a NASA release said Thursday. “This tells […]
Florida Jellyfish Invasion Killed Fish
PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 8 (UPI) — A massive influx of jellyfish that shut down a Florida nuclear power plant in late August also killed several tons of protected grouper fish, officials said. Florida Power & Light’s St. Lucie plant was shut down for two days because of the jellyfish invasion, and wildlife officials and […]
Images Capture Destruction Of Mountains
OXFORD, England, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Images from Pacific Ocean waters 4 miles deep reveal one of Earth’s most violent processes as massive underwater mountains are destroyed, researchers said. The pictures, created by sonar, reveal how tectonic action is dragging giant volcanoes into a chasm in the seabed, a highly active fault line running north […]
Showing Skin Can Bring Negative Response
HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Women who dress provocatively attract criticism from peers amid fears they are a threat to those in otherwise monogamous relationships, Canadian researchers say. Researchers from McMaster University in Canada invited students to take part in a discussion on conflict in female friendships, and while the students waited for the […]
Long-Ignored Dinosaur Fossil Identified
CLAREMONT, Calif., Dec. 6 (UPI) — A dinosaur fossil sitting for 100 years on various museum shelves has been identified as a previously unknown species, a California museum says. Parts of the skulls of at least two horned dinosaurs were discovered in 1916 and sent to The Natural History Museum in London. However, the fossils […]
Rocks Show History Of Oxygen On Earth
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) — The creation of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere was a long process of starts and stops, not a single continuous event, U.S. researchers say. Geoscientists say the evidence comes from rock cores from a deep drilling project in northwest Russia in 2007. The Far Deep project drilled a series of 2-inch […]
Ravens Seen To Communicate With Gestures
POCKING, Germany, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Ravens may be even smarter than previously thought, using gestures to communicate among themselves, a European study suggests. The birds commonly use gestures such as showing and offering objects to each other including moss, stones and twigs, which puts them in rare company as the only non-primate confirmed as […]
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