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Scientists say warm upper air this September and October helped shrink the man-made ozone hole near the South Pole ever so slightly. (Photo: Thinkstock)

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Southern ozone hole slightly smaller this year

Associated Press, Seth Borenstein -

October 23, 2013 7:57 pm

This undated photo made available by NOAA shows a computer displaying an electronic nautical chart aboard a ship. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 that the traditional heavy paper lithographic nautical charts will stop being printed next April. Capt. Shep Smith, head of NOAAÃ?s chart division, said the agency will still chart the water for rocks, shipwrecks and dangers, but mariners will have to see the information using private on-demand printing, PDFs and electronic maps. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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Ahoy, mateys! US to stop printing nautical charts

Associated Press, Seth Borenstein -

October 22, 2013 9:33 pm

The Los Angeles-class submarine USS Annapolis rests on the Arctic Ocean after breaking through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise in The Arctic Ocean. (Tiffini M. Jones/U.S. Navy)

Energy and Environment

Arctic sea ice 6th lowest, but rebounds from 2012

Associated Press, Seth Borenstein -

September 26, 2013 4:00 am

FILE -In this undated picture made available by NASA, a technician examines the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. The cosmic ray detector was mounted on the International Space Station, searched the universe and shall help to explain how everything came to be. CERN , the European Organization for Nuclear Research, released first results of the experiment Wednesday April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA, Glenn Benson)

Scientists find possible hint of dark matter

John Heilprin, Seth Borenstein -

April 3, 2013 4:00 am

George Efstathiou, a European Space Agency astrophysicist speaks to The Associated Press after the press conference at ESA headquarters, in Paris, Thursday, March 21, 2013 in front of the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope. Efstathiou, who announced the Planck satellite mapping on Thursday, says the findings also offer new specificity of the universe's composition. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Universe ages 80M years; Big Bang gets clearer

Lori Hinnant, Seth Borenstein -

March 21, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2008 file photo, a combine cuts durum near an oil well on Aug. 19, 2008, in Tioga, N.D. The worries about what drilling does to the air are both global and local, with scientists concerned about the effects on climate change as well as the possible health consequences from breathing smog, soot and other pollutants. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, file)

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Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner

Kevin Begos, Seth Borenstein -

December 11, 2012 5:00 am

376713 12: (FILE PHOTO) Astronaut Neil Armstrong smiles inside the Lunar Module July 20, 1969. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission is celebrated July 20, 1999. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers)

Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the moon, dies at 82

Associated Press, Seth Borenstein, Lisa Cornwell -

August 25, 2012 4:00 am

This late Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012 PDT photo made available by NASA shows the Curiosity rover, bottom, and its parachute descending to the surface from the vantage point of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (AP Photo)

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NASA cheers Mars landing, welcomes new photos

alicia-chang, Seth Borenstein -

August 6, 2012 4:00 am