http://www.mail.com/subjects/16594-nature-reserves.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/16594-nature-reserves.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2098724-alaska-unveils-plan-to-assess-gas-oil-anwr.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. State officials hope the plan will reinvigorate — and reshape — the debate over whether to drill on the refuge's coastal plain. The plan was announced at an event hos... Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2098724-alaska-unveils-plan-to-assess-gas-oil-anwr.html 2013-05-20T20:15:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2097256-ny-town-eyes-limit-use-plum-island.html MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As the federal government proceeds with plans to sell the island 100 miles east of New York Cit... Mon, 20 May 2013 06:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2097256-ny-town-eyes-limit-use-plum-island.html 2013-05-20T06:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise taxes and trim popular benefit programs, including Social Security and Medicare. The White House claims deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion, but Obama's proposal would negate more than $1 trillion in automatic ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:41:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2010906-agency-by-agency-guide-to-obamas-2014-budget.html 2013-04-10T23:41:12Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1953510-monarch-butterflies-drop-ominously-mexico.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday. It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:25:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1953510-monarch-butterflies-drop-ominously-mexico.html 2013-03-14T04:25:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1908588-alaska-senator-pushes-wildlife-refuge-road.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Thin barrier islands five miles off the tip of the Alaska Peninsula shelter Izembek Lagoon from the Bering Sea, but it's what's beneath the surface that makes the lagoon special and part of a brewing, cross-continent fight. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is pushing for a road between King Cove, population 938, where flying is often impossibl... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:17:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1908588-alaska-senator-pushes-wildlife-refuge-road.html 2013-02-22T18:17:11Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1891964-democrats-to-unveil-bill-to-replace-budget-cuts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are unveiling legislation Thursday to avoid a looming set of sharp, across-the-board spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and domestic agencies in just two weeks. The measure would impose a minimum tax rate on million-dollar incomes and replace the automatic cuts, known as a se... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:44:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1891964-democrats-to-unveil-bill-to-replace-budget-cuts.html 2013-02-14T18:44:41Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1789986-burned-bear-cub-recovering-released.html HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — An orphaned black bear cub burned in a wildfire last summer is recovering and may be released in June, an Idaho wildlife sanctuary official said. The 4-month-old bear nicknamed "Boo Boo" was discovered by a fisherman in a tree along the Salmon River in August days after the 312-square-mile Mustang wildfire complex passed through the... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1789986-burned-bear-cub-recovering-released.html 2012-12-28T19:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1727918-rhino-killings-horns-rapidly-rise-s-africa.html VAALKOP DAM NATURE RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brush and acacia, the nature reserve had become yet another blood-soaked crime scene in South Africa's losing battle against poachers. Hunters killed eight rhinos at the private Finfoot Game Reserve inside the Vaa... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1727918-rhino-killings-horns-rapidly-rise-s-africa.html 2012-11-28T08:49:00Z