Welcome to Wikinews - Latest news 2/2012

Latest news

• Maine Senator Olympia Snowe announces she won't seek reelection
• Three students killed in Ohio school shooting, others injured
• Australian women's water polo team takes test series against Great Britain
• U.S. Army identifies remains of last U.S. soldier unaccounted for in Iraq
• Wikinews interviews former Congressman Virgil Goode, Constitution Party presidential candidate
• Orkney, Scotland crash kills two
• Two United States officers killed in Afghan ministry

Yahoo - Latest Science News Galleries 2/2012

• Tsunami debris

  Last Inca emperor's tomb possibly found

  Conservationists look to aid gray wolf

  Spectacular Northern Lights

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Massive Driftwood Washes Ashore

 Image of Massive driftwood tree Photo: Philip Lachman via Our Amazing Planet
I see this image and I imagine somewhere the Lorax is crying…
Flooding, high tides and blasting winds worked together to land a massive drift log taller than a single-story house.
Check out the size of that thing!

Frankincense Endangered and Truly Precious

 Boswellia tree.

If you have never seen or burnt actual frankincense you should, while you still can. Its weight is much lighter than one would it expect the golden nuggets to be. It’s slightly acrid and pungent smell is out of step with our modern fabric softener scented world. However, if you ever experience a horrifying-curl-up-and-die funk in your living space thick pungent frankincense smoke will chase down and kill all traces of the odor sort of like a classical disinfectant. It would be perfect in a stable someone just gave birth in.

Giant African land snails invade Miami

Not only are these huge, hermaphroditic, long living tough buggers so hungry they eat plaster and stucco they can carry meningitis bearing nematodes. This is the first time I’ve used the Florida Dept of Agriculture as a source.

Space Station - 60 Amazing Images

Christchurch earthquake remembrance service – in pictures

One year after a devastating earthquake struck the New Zealand city, thousands attended a ceremony in Christchurch's Hagley Park. The magnitude 6.3 quake flattened thousands of buildings and killed 185 people

Dozens of children die in Afghanistan cold

The deaths in camps so close to the offices of international organisations have shocked many in Kabul. Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP

Heaviest snowfall and coldest winter for 15 years claims the lives of more than 40 people, most of them children

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