Sheep pine for absent friends: official
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Family snaps help relieve ovine "separation anxiety"
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Pinning down a prophet is lonely work. Just ask Mohave County, Arizona, investigator Gary Engels.
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Peer groups can be useful, but don't lose the trees for the forest.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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By Blair Goldstein, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Sep. 6--Ted Harris said his dream is to preserve patches of forestland  across the state.   A recent grant awarded to the 500-Year Forest Foundation marks one of the  first steps to his long-term vision.
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Death notices sent to relatives of missing people
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Free the Finnish fur foxes, Pamela Anderson says. After arriving Thursday to host a music festival west of Helsinki, Anderson told Finnish President Tarja Halonen in a letter that her nation should emulate other countries that have banned fur farms.
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By NO BYLINE  A TASKFORCE is to be set up to find ways of increasing the supply of wood to make biomass energy. Mike Russell, the environment minister, announced the move yesterday on a visit to E.ON's soon-to- open GBP 90 million plant in Lockerbie.  (c) 2007 Scotsman, The.
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By Lisa Gibson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 4--A new resident has made a temporary home in Grand Forks on the smiley-face water tower off Washington Street.   A male peregrine falcon has been living in a nest box on the tower since mid-April.
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By Sara Kennedy, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec.
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I love international days of this and that. They are such grand occasions for leaders to remember some long forgotten agenda. The charitable among us hope that occasions
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A rare species of mountain sheep could face extinction if it is not given a safe haven from the conflicts tearing apart its natural habitat in central and south Asia, conservationists say.
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Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used in some vineyards as a green alternative to tractors. They don't use gasoline and keep down weeds &#151; a necessary task to deter pests and keep vines healthy &#151; sans herbicides.
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By Tomos Livingstone  With less than a week to go in Labour's deputy leadership election, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has a narrow lead - on Facebook.
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ST MICHAELS, Maryland  - President George W. Bush took a nature outing on Saturday to tout new federal initiatives aimed at protecting migrating birds and two fish species prized by anglers.
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Frankly Speaking: Frank Hayes relates a chat Santa had with an elf about annual gift giving to the IT world. And what's with all the penguins? Santa wants to know.
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By Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 15--A plan to create a Bristol Bay game refuge in honor of former Gov.