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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints

By ALICIA CHANGAP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the

Project aims to track big city carbon footprints

By ALICIA CHANGAP Science Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the

Feds: Many causes for dramatic bee disappearance

By SETH BORENSTEINAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006. The intertwined factors cited include a parasitic mite, multiple viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition, genetics, habitat

Germ-zapping 'robots': Hospitals combat superbugs

By MIKE STOBBEAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous 'superbugs' that are hard to treat. The