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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A new United Nations online database showcases successful strategies by U.S. and world businesses and communities to adapt to climate change, officials said. - United Press International - 37 Reads

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- NASA says a spacecraft gathering data on material outside the solar system found matter out there doesn't look like the same stuff our solar system is made of. - United Press International - 4 Reads

BANGKOK, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Law enforcement leaders from countries with populations of wild tigers, meeting in Thailand, say they'll work together to combat illegal trade in the big cats. - United Press International - 27 Reads

HINXTON, England, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Researchers say a female Tasmanian devil who died more than 15 years ago is the source of a contagious cancer that is killing off the species. - United Press International - 29 Reads

PUERTO MOLDONADO, Peru, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A wealth of new, previously undocumented species have been discovered in a protected national park in southeastern Peru, wildlife conservationists say. - United Press International - 4 Reads

MOSCOW, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Russian researchers say their drilling project is close to breaching a prehistoric lake trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years. - United Press International - 2 Reads

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- NASA and the European Space Agency say a Hubble image of a barred spiral galaxy will help astronomers understand more about our own Milky Way galaxy. - United Press International - 22 Reads

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A Google Earth image with an undersea gridlike pattern some suspected were sunken streets of the mythological city of Atlantis has been updated, official said. - United Press International - 23 Reads

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A newly discovered planet orbiting in the habitable zone around a distant star is the best candidate yet observed for supporting life, U.S. astronomers say. - United Press International - 2 Reads

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Mammals like raccoons, opossums, rabbits and deer are vanishing from the Florida Everglades as Burmese pythons multiply, researchers said Monday. - United Press International - 28 Reads