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Firefighters mopping up South Tularosa Fire
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 Crews are mopping up a 3,860-acre blaze in the Sacramento Mountains on Mescalero Apache land. |
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Firefighters make progress on Trigo Fire
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 Firefighters are expecting to face dry, windy weather for the next few days as they work to snuff the Trigo Fire in the Manzano Mountains. |
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Firefighters make progress on Trigo, Tularosa fires
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| Firefighters in the Manzano and the Sacramento mountains reported progress on two fires Wednesday but were bracing for winds. |
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New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
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Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest _ dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
Updated: 07:16 PM
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Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus
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With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.
Updated: 05:46 PM
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Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem with dirt
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Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they’re planted in.
Updated: 04:46 PM
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Seaweed provides clues to earliest inhabitants of Americas
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Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
Updated: 02:30 PM
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Australia’s Koalas at risk from climate change
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Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
Updated: 01:16 AM
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