BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales (video)
Category: Environment
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Category: Environment
Hat-tip: everybody seems to link/embed this today.......
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Category: Politics
In response to President Obama's Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill & Energy:...
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Category: Ecology
According to a new paper showing temporal and spatial patterns of migratory routes and spawning grounds of bluefin tuna, they were in the Gulf of Mexico spawning at the moment the oil well exploded and all that oil started gushing...
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Category: Environment
The new forum at PRI World Science: Listen to a story by reporter Eric Niiler, followed by our interview with Stephen Palumbi. Our guest in the Science Forum is marine biologist Stephen Palumbi of Stanford University. He uses genetics to...
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Category: Environment
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Category: Environment
Maggie Koerth-Baker, who I finally met in person at AAAS meeting, just designed an amazing feature on BoingBoing - the Antarctica: It's about the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center, a group of researchers based at the University of Minnesota who do...
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Category: Environment
We bought a couple of these recently and use them for all our grocery shopping. They are environmentally friendly, strong chico bags, tiny when wrapped up (and easy to wrap up) and large when opened up: Conflict of Interest: this...
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Category: Technology
Our April Science Café (description below) will be held on Tuesday 4/20 at the Irregardless Cafe on Morgan Street. Our café speaker for that night is Rogelio Sullivan, Associate Director of the Advanced Transportation Energy Center and also of the...
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Category: Earth
At World Science - listen to the podcast and join the online discussion: Our guest in this Science Forum is economist Scott Barrett of Columbia University's Earth Institute. Chat with Barrett about the science and politics of geoengineering, the emerging...
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