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April 30 - Late Edition

• Wild Weekend Weather Leaves Devastating Mark & Record Tornado
• Killer F-5 Tornado Becomes one for the Books in Maryland
• NASA, University Scientists See Prediction of Solar Storms in Future
• Scientists Discover Antifreeze in Space, Warming Theories on How and Where Life Begins
• ESA Finds a Black-Hole Flywheel in the Milky Way
• Fresh Warning on Climate Change
• Quakes, Terror Threaten Structures
• Anatomy of a Tornado
• Fujita Tornado Damage Scale
• Making Millisecond Pulsars

• Continued Evidence of Solar-Magnetics and Human Behavior
• The Software Revolution Has Only Just Begun
• 5,000-Year-Old Totem Discovered in East China
• Quake Shakes Western Iran
• Bio-Attack 'Could Kill a Million'
• Finding Tiny Particles in Hurricanes May Help With Predictions
• Moderate Earthquake Rattles Southwestern Bulgaria

• One Dead, Many Injured as Damaging Tornado Hits Md.
• Tornadoes, High Wind Kill Five and Injure Dozens as Storms Sweep East From Ohio and Tennessee Valleys
• Small Earthquake Shakes El Salvador; No Injuries or Damage Reported
• Storms Kill 12 Bangladeshis, Floods Loom
• Western Interior is Already Feeling Drought's Effects
• Scientists on Snowmobiles Explore Clues to Arctic Warming
• Drought Fallout on Many Fronts

• Top CIA Official Warns Next Terror Attack Unavoidable
• World's Weather Hotter Than Ever
• Snow in Great Lakes, Upper Midwest
• Fla. Lacks Hurricane Shelter Space
• Asia's Wind-Borne Pollution a Hazardous Export to U.S.

April 28

• Japanese Supercomputer Simulates Earth
• Report: Scientist Find 1.85 Billion-Years-Old Volcano in the Amazon
• Approaching Comet
• 2002 'Warmest for 1,000 Years'
• Western Iran Still Shaking to Aftershocks

• Strong Earthquake Rocks Guam; No Injuries or Damage Reported
• Georgians Clean Up After Earthquake
• Mercury Joins Great Planet Alignment
• Fading White Dwarfs Confirm the Age of the Universe
• Giant Iceberg Spells Disaster
• Northwest Texas County Deluged by Floods
• Mile-Wide Tornado Batters Missouri City

• Out With the Big Bang, and in With Cosmic Crunch
• A Drama of Star Formation and Evolution
• Several Wildfires Burning in West; Hundreds Evacuated in Colorado Town
• Color of Ocean Yields Global Warming Clues
• Taiwan Faces Worst Drought in Decades, Considers Islandwide Water Rationing

• Abundance of Cometlike Objects With Moons Stuns Experts
• Colorado Fire Out of Control, 450 Homes Evacuate
• Earthquake Rattles Central Balkans
• Quake Kills One, Topples Mosque Tower in Kosovo
• Study: Universe 13 Billion Years Old
• Flash Floods Kill Six, Destroy Homes in Western Afghanistan
• Moderate Quake Rattles Northeastern Iranian City
• Small Islands Could Drown, Warns Climate Body Chief
• Experts Find Clues to Cause of Deadly Pacific Tsunami
• Unique Project to Help Predict Quakes
• Royal Nubia Lies Under Sand

• NASA's Aqua Spacecraft to Study Earth's Water Cycle
• Comet Borrelly: Dry and Hot
• Closing In on Neutrino Properties
• Are Dormant Quasars Throwing "Baseballs" at Us?
• Afghans Fight Against Locusts and Floods
• ESA Takes a New Look at the Moon

• Scientists Catch Speeding Neutron Star with Radar Gun Technique
• Domes of Destruction
• TI's Nishi Named Director of Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
• Brain, Heal Thyself
• Fertilizing Corn Can Wait, Planting Can't, Agronomists Say
• Brookhaven Lab Scientist Wins Environmental Mutagen Society Award
• Cracked Skull Shows Neanderthal Rage, Mercy
• Klez Worm's on the Loose Again
• Second Space Tourist Set for Take Off

• Planetary Embryos Hatch in the Southern Constellation Centaurus
• Six Killed in Fijian Landslide
• Drought Forcing Ranchers in Arizona to Sell Cattle
• Aurora Watch
• Illinois River Standards "Unrealistic," Researcher Says

• Experiment Confirms Sun Theories
• Icebergs` Devastating Impact on Antarctic Marine Life Revealed by Satellite
• Wildfire Burns 2,650 Acres in Southern Arizona
• Utah Governor Warns Against Dire Drought Situation This Summer
• Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaking
• Ice Coring Team Heads for Alaskan Glaciers
• Galaxy Cluster Surveys May Help Explain 'Dark Energy' in the Universe
• Water Another Source of Mideast Tension
• Small Earthquake Rattles Southern Bulgaria
• Is Venus Our Future?

• Second X-Class Flare In As Many Days
• Tornado Kills One in Illinois
• Retired Quasars Live on to Generate the Fastest, Most Energetic Cosmic Rays
• 'Rain Gardens' Help Recharge Ground Water
• Researchers Say Trees Could Affect Land Use, Reduce Skin Cancer
• Clouds in the Greenhouse
• Earth Day's Role Evolves to Reflect a Changing World
• When Galaxies Collide: Chandra Observes Titanic Merger
• Rarest Shark Washes up on South African Beach
• Geological Landmark Older Than Thought

• Extended Drought Strains Resources Along East Coast
• Flooding Devastates Michigan Cities Due to Record Shattering Temps
• Seismologists Unable to Explain Earthquake on US North-East Coast
• Residents Clean Up From Northeast Earthquake
• Asteroid Chasers Are Seeing Double
• The Lyrids
• X-Class Flare Alert
• Great Intergalactic Cobwebs
• Rift Valley Fever
• Weekly Volcanic Activity Report
• Rare Rocks Offer a Unique Glimpse of the Earth's Core
• Computer Simulation Seeks Measured Response to Crisis

• Extended Drought Strains Resources Along East Coast
• Neighbors Becoming Water-Use Spies
• D.C. Marchers Oppose Globalization
• Pope Speaks Out on Celibacy, Scandalous Behavior
• Galaxy Cluster Surveys May Help Explain 'Dark Energy' in the Universe
• Virtual-Reality Body Suit Planned for Pilots
• Sceptics Denounce Climate Science 'Lie'
• JPL Explorer Mission Proposal Chosen For Feasibility Study

• Earthquake of 5.1 Magnitude Rattles Northeast, Felt From Maine to Maryland
• Anthrax Found Outside Maryland Lab
• Five Skiers Buried in French Mt. Blanc Avalanche

• Comet Spotter Swaps 'Scope for 'Net
• Center to Monitor Asteroids Opens
• New York Again Asked to Cut Power Use in Heat Wave - USA
• Five Tornadoes Reported in Wisconsin...
• Rare Planetary Line-Up Heralds Calm?
• Pillars of Venus
• Afghans Fight Against Locusts
• NASA Earth Day Webcast: Any More Earths Out There?

• New Report Explains Ice-Age Mystery
• Experts Tell Senate U.S. Not Ready for Bioterror
• Rare Rocks Offer a Unique Glimpse of the Earth's Core
• Superplumes Rumble Inside Earth
• Strong Earthquake Causes Minor Damage in Chile
• Small Quake Provokes Series of Landslides on Salvadoran Highway
• Suriname's Coastline Shrinking With Erosion, Flooding from Atlantic Waters
• Second Quake Rock Mexico City; No Damages, Injuries Reported
• Residents Dust off After 'Dry Hurricane' Hits Pahrump

• CME Hurled Towards Earth
• NASA Earth Day Webcast: Any More Earths Out There?
• Sticks and Stones: the Martian Meteorite Debate Rages On
• Five Planets Line up in Rare Celestial Array
• Moderate Quake Shakes Taiwan's Eastern Coast, no Immediate Reports of Damage or Injuries
• 'Too Hot, Too Soon' - Heat Bakes Plains, East for Another Day
• Canada's Wierd Weather Brings Heatwave, Snowfalls

• Can You Say Earth Changes?
• Tornadoes Hit Fort Worth Area
• NYC Hits 91, Breaks 106-Year-Old Temperature Mark
• Two Earthquakes Occurred Near New Zealand's Taupo Town Late Tuesday
• El Nino Chances Increase Slightly - Australia
• Fires and Tree Rings Tell History of Climate
• Bush Predicts More Terrorism
• Thousands of Inca Mummies Discovered

• Angry Weather Wreaks Havoc in Utah
• Unseasonably Hot Weather in Minnesota
• Power Blackouts Could Stop Flow of Water in Las Vegas Valley
• Radar May Reveal Mayan Rituals
• Record Heatwave Across Many States

• Of Early Writing and a King of Legend
• Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection Alert
• Latest Mars Photos of Cydonia Region
• Churchill's Secret War Bunker Opened
• Pre-Summer Heat Wave Hits Nation
• Global Warming Threatens Major Flooding in Himalayas
• An Update on Climate Changes
• Only 2% of Earth's Water Is Fresh
• Thirsty Wildlife Seek Water in Los Angeles Burbs

• Here Comes the Sun
• Hot Comet
• Is the Pope Still in Charge?
• Timbuktu - City of Legends
• Triple-Digit Temp is a Bit Early for Phoenix, AZ
• New Debate Erupts Over Volcanic Threat at Yucca Mountain
• China Selects "Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries in 2001"
• March: Warmest Month on Record Globally; Cooler March in U.S.
• Afghanistan Rattled Again by Quakes, Two Dead

• Galaxies Interact, Collide, in Wide Variety of Ways
• Young Stars Like to Hang Out, Rumble Occasionally
• Astronauts Test-Drive New Railcar
• Bones Reveal Some Truth in 'Noble Savage Myth'
• Even Quiescent Black Holes Are Dynamic, Lively Spots
• Officials Baffled by Source of Oil Spill Near Detroit
• Pope Summons American Cardinals
• Solar Blast

• Sunspot Count Reaches 257
• Dormant Volcanoes Shows Signs of Life
• Astronauts Work on Space-Age Railroad
• Failure to Manage Water Kills Two Million a Year - UN
• Global Warming Accelerates China's Sea Level Rise
• Device To Protect Sea Birds Tested
• What the Latest El Nino Might Do
• Hydrogen in Earth's Crust 'Could End World's Energy Problems'

• Earthshine
• G-8 Ministers Discuss Environment
• Residents Dig Into Rubble Searching for Survivors of Afghan Earthquake
• US Funds Research on Facial Recognition Technology
• Changing Antarctica Viewed by NASA Satellite
• First Permanent Broadband Earthquake Monitor Placed in Monterey Bay Off California Coast
• Dawn of the Comet
• Fish Guard Army Base Water Supply

• Earthquake Kills At Least 50 In Northern Afghan District
• Canadian Scientists Risk High-Altitude Ice Hunt
• Death Toll Tops 1,000 in Meningitis Epidemic Believed Carried by Mecca Pilgrims
• A Cold, Cruel Sun
• New Count Doubles the Rocks in Asteroid Belt
• A Drought-Stricken Town Strains for Relief
• Dry Winter Sparks Early Fire Season
• Massive Coral Bleaching Strikes Great Barrier Reef
• An Australian Volcano is Waking Up
• Asteroids Often Travel, and Strike, in Pairs

• ECTV Joint Ventures With Herbal Magnetics
• New Quake Strikes Afghanistan
• Earth's Warming Trend is Truly Global
• New Smallpox Terror Alert
• Sticks and Stones: the Martian Meteorite Debate Rages On
• Quark-Matter Stars Said Found
• Dust From Dawn of Time
• Astronauts Attach 44-Foot Girder

• Interstellar Beams Give Clumping Stars A Signature
• Neutrinos From The Sun And From A Factory Described
• Prescription Drug Pollution May Harm Environment
• New, Milder El Nino May Hit U.S. by Mid-Summer
• Ancient Southern Arizona Rift Lakes
• Report: Earthquake Felt in Georgian Capital
• Torrential Rain Leads to 23 Deaths in Ecuador
• Atlantis 'Obviously Near Gibraltar'
• Hundreds of Thousands of Gallons of Coal Waste Spilled Into Streams in Kentucky, West Virginia

• Climate Change Will Unbalance Ecosystems, Says Study
• China Estimates It Has 850,000 HIV Carriers
• Weird Stars Show Evidence of New Form of Matter
• Hawaii's Wake
• Enzyme Clears Path for Spinal Cord Repair
• Magnetic Medicine Under Development
• Sea Level Rise Threatens Marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
• First Trial Using Adult Stem Cells to Repair Man's Heart Tissue

• Space Industry Hints of Connection to Sun and Human Behavior
• Anomalies Hint at Magnetic Pole Flip
• Impact Events' Kinetic Energy May be Key to Understanding the Severity of Mass Extinctions
• Tasmania's Forests 'at Growing Risk'
• Farming Inside Forests Hurts Bird Communities More Than Timber Harvesting, Study Suggests
• Trees Aren't Going to Solve Global Warming
• Tropical Streams, Rivers ‘Exhaling’ Millions of Tons More CO2 Than Thought
• Study Proves Natural Disasters Trigger Marriage, Birth and Divorce
• North Korea Faces 'Looming' Food Crisis

• U.S. to Search for Pilot in Iraq
• Divers Find Ruins of Mythical City Off India
• Scientists Weigh Lightest Known Particle
• 'Billion Earths Possible in Our Galaxy'
• Growth Breakthrough for Damaged Nerves
• Crazy Ants Wiping Out Famed Christmas Island Crabs
• Australia Tests Stem Cells to Beat Heart Damage
• Distant Galaxies Discovered, Pushing Back Beginnings

• The Sun, Weather, and Human Behavior
• The First Little Pig Was Right!
• Meteor May Solve How Mythic Emperor Died
• Cholera Outbreak in Somalia Kills More Than 50
• HIV Infection Rate High Among Amazon Gold Miners
• Dentists Divided Over Safety of `Silver' Fillings
• Easy Theft: Radioactive Bomb Parts
• Dwindling Water Supplies are the World's Biggest Challenge

• Atlantis Blasts Off for Space Station
• A Pretty Pair of Fuzzies
• Tudor Bridge and Ancient Animal Remains Found in Suffolk
• Drought Chokes Montana's Businesses
• Northern China Water Crisis Deepens
• Global Warming Brings Half World's Population Under Threat of Diseases
• Plutonium in Erwin Related to Fallout from Bomb Tests?
• 'Oil Slick' of Jelly Fishlike Creatures Hovers Off North Coast
• Men of Afghan City Say Its Water Has Erotic Powers
• Despite Rain, Vermont Still Feeling Drought
• Mineral Water Contamination Claim

• Sand Storm Warning Issued Across South Korea
• Scientists Look for Time Ripples
• Ice Plays Role In Star Formation: Surface Scientists
• Changing Reflectance Could Deflect Asteroids' Path
• A Sophisticated Strain of Anthrax
• Wind Gusts Threaten Shuttle Launch
• Oil Soars on Halt by Iraq, Venezuela
• Seven Atlantic Hurricanes Forecast for 2002

• Deep Space 1 Finds Comet Borrelly Has Hot, Dry Surface
• New Study Reveals Twice as Many Asteroids as Believed
• Quake Jolts Central Iranian City
• Hong Kong Kills Chickens, Plans Bird Flu Vaccination
• Bangladeshis Catch Fish in Sewage
• Physics Professor Confident His Time Machine Will Work
• Dust Storms From China and Africa Hit U.S.
• Tick-Tock Atomic Clock
• Hitchhiker's Guide to an Asteroid
• Mad Elk Disease Spreads Across N America

• Biodiversity Under Microscope at U.N. Meeting
• Rain Aids Firefighters Battling Wildfire
• Deadly Disease Stumps Wildlife Vets
• Human Clone News Stirs Skepticism
• Arizona Storm Causes Highway Pileup
• Puny Points of Power: Scientists Craft New Solar Panel Technology
• Sacred Ground: Conflicting Emotions at the End of Ground Zero Clean-Up
• Scientists: Asteroid May Strike Earth in 2880

• Moderate Quake Hits Southwest Japan
• 6.2-Mile-Long Oil Spill Headed for Japan Coast
• Drought Leaves Farmers Ranchers in Poor Condition
• Dry Summer Looms for Colorado
• Sierra Club Says Many Plants, Animals in Trouble Since Days of Lewis and Clark
• Attacks By Hungry Kites on Rise

• Thirty-Nine Feared Dead in Afghan Floods
• Many Rural Residents Living with HIV Continue Risky Behaviors
• Salt: it's Blowin' in the Wind
• A Feat of Clay When Poisoned Parrots Get into the Detox
• Ball Lightning Explained
• Strong Quake Hits Western Greek Island
• Implantable Spy Chip Gets Green Light from U.S.
• Seven Atlantic Hurricanes Forecast for 2002
• Pregnant Woman Carrying Clone Says Scientist
• Physics Professor Confident His Time Machine Will Work
• Scientists Find New Evidence of Life on Mars

• Fight Rages Over Bioengineered Corn
• Rare Bronze Age Gold Cup Discovered
• California Scientists Identify New Insect Species, Including Biggest-Ever Bug
• New Mexico Wildfire Spreads to National Forest
• Rice Genes Offer Grains of Hope for Hungry
• Threatening Asteroid Aids Planetary Prognosticators
• Scottish Chariot 'Was Iron Age Ferrari'

• Tweak Temp's to Deflect Asteroids Says Scientist
• Urgent: Eyewitness Report From Ramallah
• Scientists Listen in on the Sun to Reveal New Insights into its Fiery Dynamo
• Divers Find Evidence of Black Water's Devastation
• Oldest-Known Solar Eclipse Recorded in Stone
• Limitless Natural Resources a Myth, Says Study
• Megacities -- Then, Now and in the Future
• NASA Images Confirm What New Yorkers Already Know: It's Dry

• Scientists Believe Rising Waters on Pacific Island Due to Lunar Cycles not Global Warming
• Slash and Burn May Wipe Out the World's Forests in 20 Years
• Now, the Slo-o-o-ow Earth Movement
• Ancient City Discovered in Italy
• Grand Canyon Endangered Fish on Brink, Loss of Colorado River Beaches Continues
• Air Pollution Deadlier Than We Thought, Say Scientists
• Wasting Disease Spreading in US Deer, Elk Herds

• Forest Survey Shows Big Holes
• My Pet Neutron Star
• Physicists Predict Super-Niño: 15-Year El Niño / La Niña Cycle
• Cyclone Kills 9 in Eastern India
• Papua New Guinea Landslide Kills 8
• Ruins of an Ancient Trading Center Soon to be Under Water
• Past South Dakota Flood Victims Hope for Rain
• Chinese Missiles Concern Pentagon

• A Time of Resurrection Still On My Mind
• Experts Expect Stormy Hurricane Season
• Andromeda Comet
• Spectacular Planet Show Promised
• London Warmer Than Rome as Britain Feels the Heat
• Boats 'May be Secret Polluters'
• Virgin Forests 'Becoming a Myth' Say Experts
• China Invests in Electric Cars to Combat Pollution

• NASA Pinpoints Where Rain Comes From and Where it Goes
• Superfloods Controversial, But Aid Flood Prediction
• Mars Rock 'Shows Planet May Have Supported Life'
• Hotter Times on Planet Earth, Researchers Find
• Powerful Storm Dumps Snow on Midwest
• Chinese Ready for Manned Space Launch
• Earthquake Rocks Parts of Chile
• Shrine 'Apparition' Draws 50,000 Indians

• Flood in Canary Islands Kills Six
• Fainter Faint Fuzzies
• Tornado Kills 5 in Southern China
• Tornadoes Shake Up Weekend in Texas
• Pollutants Riding Dust from China Across the Pacific
• Dozens of Human Skeletal Remains Found in Kentucky
• Rock Climbing Harms Cliff Ecosystems
• Comet Best Since Hale-Bopp

• Man Diagnosed With Human Rabies
• Two Men Die in Eagle River Avalanche
• Chinese Spaceship Returns to Earth
• Warmer Water Changing Portugal Fish Species - Study
• Arsenic, King of Poisons, Gets an Image Makeover
• Bug Hunt Tells Tale on Health of Georgia's Streams
• An Early Melting Hurts Seals, Hunters in Canada
• Stromboli, Not Kilauea, Most Active Volcano On Earth

• Spain Floods, Mudslides Kill Five
• China Dust Disaster Imaged by NASA Spacecraft
• Last Chance to See Comet Ikeya-Zhang
• Nuke Lost off Georgia Coast Stirs New Fears After 44 Years
• NASA Grandfather to Set Space-Flight Record
• Arctic Ice and Way of Life Melting Away for Eskimos
• Satellite Images Show World in Transformation
• North Carolina Plant Remained Open Despite Growing Mercury Problem