LiveScience.com – Saber-toothed cats might be most famous for their oversized fangs,
but scientists now find the feisty felines had another exceptional
feature – powerful arms stronger than those of any cat alive today.

AP – Patches of green and turquoise slime floated like thick paint in the channel behind Kyle Biesel’s home. His pontoon boat sat covered up, unused for weeks, on a wooden lift stained by the algae.

LiveScience.com – On this Fourth of July weekend, if you dare go in the water,
oil may be the least
of your worries.

AP – Scientists have found oil droplets on tiny blue crabs in the Gulf of Mexico that are prey to many fish and important indicators of ecosystem’s overall health.

AP – Several environmental groups are asking a federal judge to throw out his order overturning a six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico because of his investments in several oil and gas companies.

LiveScience.com – Forget auto emissions and power plants. Humans may have
contributed to climate change more than 10,000 years ago, according to a new
study.

AP – BP and several wildlife groups are working out the final details of a settlement in a lawsuit filed over accusations that turtles were being killed as BP burned oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

AP – A new computer model shows oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill has as high as an 80 percent chance of reaching the Florida Keys and Miami.

AP – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. doesn’t need a federal permit to build a nickel and copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

AP – A member of Congress says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided that Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. doesn’t need a federal permit to build a nickel and copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

AP – The Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency shored up their oversight of BP’s work to clean up the oil-soaked Gulf Coast on Thursday, setting new standards for how the company and its contractors should test and track the garbage generated by the ongoing spill.

LiveScience.com – While the hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly
healing, its recovery might have a downside, scientists say: Climate
change could change wind patterns and send ozone from high in the
atmosphere down to the surface, where it is a major component of smog.

AP – The Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency are tightening up their oversight of BP and its contractors cleaning up the mess on the oily Gulf Coast.

AP – A new study aims to understand the effects of global warming on the world’s largest trees — California’s iconic redwoods and giant sequoias.

AP – In a June 28 story about chemicals that are used in natural gas drilling, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, erroneously reported the intended use of the chemicals on a list assembled by the agency.

LiveScience.com – Every year, millions of men undergo screening for prostate
cancer. This disease, which strikes one out of every six men, is very curable
in its early stages. But, say some doctors, early detection of prostate cancer
is doing more harm than good.

AP – The administrator of the $20 billion escrow fund established to pay BP claims says he’s changing the system so businesses can get emergency, lump-sum payments.

The Newsroom – Given all the speculation about the Gulf oil spill as “Obama’s Katrina,” the last thing the embattled White House needs is a platoon of formaldehyde-contaminated trailers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

LiveScience.com – Gruesome 3-D images of the insides of snakes, alligators and
tarantulas have been captured with a new high-tech procedure.

AP – Pepsi is expanding its popular Refresh Project charitable program to help communities affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.