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August 4, 2010 1:27 PM
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Mother Nature Having Her Way With Gulf Oil
Fully three-quarters of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that spewed from BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico bypassed efforts to collect it or burn it...
August 2, 2010 2:00 PM
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Five Ways Oil Drops Could Still Be Deadly to Gulf
Last week the debate about the fate of oil in the gulf took, according to major media reports, an optimistic turn. Now Representative Ed Markey (D–MA) is raising questions...
WWF Wants Japanese Consumers to Join the Fight to Save Bluefin Tuna
TOKYO—The conservation organization WWF is taking its campaign to save Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna to the source of the threat facing the species: Japanese consumers, who eat 80%...
July 28, 2010 6:39 PM
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Bat Caves Closed by Feds
To stop the possible western spread of white-nose syndrome, the U.S. Forest Service has issued an order to temporarily shut all caves and abandoned mines on federal lands in...
July 23, 2010 3:26 PM
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Qualified Good News on Subsea Dispersed Oil Plumes: Continued Low Oil Concentrations, No Dead Zones
A second report by a multiagency team of government and academic scientists, working on five research vessels between 19 May and 19 June finds the distribution of the plumes...
July 19, 2010 5:19 PM
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Should Smuggled Madagascar Frogs Be Returned Home?
Conservation biologists are celebrating last week's bust of Madagascar animal smugglers at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But in an ironic twist, they're now scrambling to ensure that...
July 19, 2010 5:10 PM
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Obama's National Ocean Policy
It wouldn't have prevented the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but a new national ocean policy, announced today by the White House, was welcomed by environmentalists. The...
July 15, 2010 4:56 PM
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Illegal Logging Has Dropped Dramatically—Or Has It?
A new analysis suggests that illegal logging has declined 22% worldwide since 2002, thanks to stricter government policies and enforcement. The progress has spared some 17 million hectares of...
July 15, 2010 1:36 PM
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Headcount of Sea Turtles Proves Elusive
Government agencies don't have the data they need to accurately count populations of the six species of endangered and threatened sea turtles in the United States, says a report...
July 13, 2010 4:41 PM
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Fish and Wildlife Service Names Science Adviser
Gabriela Chavarria of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been picked as the science adviser for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Trained as an entomologist, Chavarria studied...
China's Largest Global Change Research Effort Is Break From the Past
BEIJING—At a conference here today, Chinese science leaders bemoaned critical gaps in knowledge about climate change—while unveiling a major new research initiative. Compared with developed nations, "China's understanding of...
July 8, 2010 4:48 PM
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Desperate Measures for Oil Spill Draw More Criticism
With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico already wrecking tourism and closing down much of the fishing, Louisiana and other states have been trying hard to protect...
July 7, 2010 5:29 PM
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Researchers Watch For Effects of Oil on the Gulf's Endangered Behemoths
In the Gulf of Mexico, oil has fouled a key habitat of one of the most impressive creatures on Earth: the sperm whale, the world's largest toothed whale. A...
European Ruling Curbs Monsanto's Claims on GM Crops
The agribusiness giant Monsanto was rebuffed in a ruling handed down yesterday by the European Court of Justice over the company's patented Roundup Ready technology. (Monsanto's patented DNA enables...
July 2, 2010 5:58 PM
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Oil Contamination of Crab Larvae Could Be Widespread
Researchers have found droplets of oil inside crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico. Although preliminary, the findings represent the first sign of hydrocarbons from the Deepwater Horizon well...
July 2, 2010 1:31 PM
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How the Oil Plume Changed One Scientist's Life
The plumes of oil and gas spreading from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, which have the potential to create a low-oxygen dead zone, have attracted intense scrutiny from researchers. As part...
June 30, 2010 5:36 PM
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Oil Dispersant Study Released by EPA, But Big Questions Remain
The Environmental Protection Agency released data today from its first round of toxicity testing on dispersants that could be used on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,...
June 29, 2010 5:56 PM
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Stop the Leak, Get Rich?
X Prize Foundation’s Francis Béland announced at the TEDxOilSpill conference yesterday that the company is creating a multimillion-dollar prize for anyone who can propose a solution for the BP...
June 29, 2010 3:25 PM
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Thousands of Sea Turtle Eggs To Be Moved Out of Oil's Way
For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico—and dangerously near the oil—it's come to this: Officials are planning...
June 28, 2010 1:55 PM
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Will Floating Seaweed Be Another Oil Casualty?
Florida beachgoers sometimes mistake the ugly brown mats for trash, but sargassum, a floating seaweed, plays an important role in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, harboring fish larvae, young...
June 25, 2010 3:08 PM
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Analyses of Early Turtle Deaths Do Not Implicate Oil
The tally of dead sea turtles found since the Deepwater Horizon disaster hit 417 today. But just nine of those found so far have had visible signs of oil,...
June 24, 2010 3:43 PM
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Writer Wendell Berry Takes Aim at the Modern Research University
Wendell Berry, 75, is a literary luminary in Kentucky, where his poems, essays, and fiction explore his home state's disappearing agrarian heritage. Perhaps most notable was his 1977 paean...
June 23, 2010 6:23 PM
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Feds Halt Some Louisiana Dredging, Saying It Puts Islands at Risk
U.S. officials and the state of Louisiana continue to battle over whether the state's attempt to build sand berms that will protect wetlands from oil could damage sensitive barrier...
June 23, 2010 5:16 PM
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International Deal to Tighten Whaling Quotas Collapses; Moratorium Holds
A controversial proposal to end the 24-year-old ban on commercial whaling was shelved today at the International Whaling Commission's (IWC's) annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco. The 88 member governments...
June 21, 2010 6:09 PM
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U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ban on GM Alfalfa
A high-profile legal battle over genetically modified crops ended today with the U.S. Supreme Court tossing out a lower court's ban of GM alfalfa. Planting may resume even before...
June 14, 2010 3:20 PM
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NOAA Puts Oil Spill Data on One Site
Nearly 2 months after the 20 April explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform triggered the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government has finally...
June 9, 2010 5:50 PM
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Huge Oil Plumes Confirmed, But Effects Remain Unknown
Researchers have confirmed that two large plumes in the Gulf of Mexico consist, as suspected, of dissolved hydrocarbons. Early analyses of samples from recent cruises have found hydrocarbons up...
June 8, 2010 5:37 PM
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Scientists, Officials Unite to Speed Seafood Analysis
Jim Bradford of international analytical chemistry organization AOAC tells ScienceInsider that his group is organizing a meeting on 29 June in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to bring together scientists from state...
June 3, 2010 5:48 PM
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Moratorium Shuts Down Oceanographer's Research on Deep-Sea Life
The six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has had an unintended consequence for one scientist working there. Since 2006, Mark Benfield, an oceanographer at Louisiana...
June 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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For Life Around Deepwater Horizon, Deep Is Relative
One of the largest remaining unknowns about the impact of the oil is what it will do to corals and other life at the bottom of the Gulf of...
May 26, 2010 3:07 PM
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Toxicity Aside, Dispersants Could Undermine Natural Oil-Eaters
Dispersants, which include molecules called surfactants, work much like dish detergent, helping clean up oil spills by breaking oil blobs into tiny droplets. Natural microbes in the ocean can...
May 24, 2010 6:05 PM
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As Scientists Encounter Oil Some Find Death 'All the Way Down'
Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to see oil from the blown Deepwater Horizon well intrude on their research sites. Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the...
May 19, 2010 5:16 PM
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Three Academy Reports Urge Climate Action
The world's climate is changing, humans are causing it, and the United States should put a price on carbon soon to stanch emissions of the greenhouse gases responsible. That's...
May 17, 2010 1:02 PM
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Obama Adviser John Holdren on Why We Don't Know the Size of the Oil Gusher
Academic scientists quoted in stories late last week by NPR and The New York Times suggested that the amount of oil spewing out from the broken pipe on the...
Harpoons Fly as Pro-Whaling and Antiwhaling Nations Fight Over 'Scientific Whaling'
Appealing for objectivity, the chair and vice-chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are asking the organization's 88 member nations via a press release to give their draft peace...
May 10, 2010 6:11 PM
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Gulf Spill: Did Pesky Hydrates Trigger the Blowout?
Methane-trapping ice of the kind that has frustrated the first attempt to contain oil gushing offshore of Louisiana may have been a root cause of the blowout that started...
May 6, 2010 6:02 PM
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Cool Cleanup Blog
Scientists of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, an organization based at the University of California, Davis, that's advising cleanup efforts in Louisiana, are blogging daily from the front lines...
May 6, 2010 3:06 PM
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Four Ways the Gulf Oil Disaster Was Really Bad Timing
Breeding Season: Invertebrates, sea turtles, and birds will be facing the brunt of the spill just as they are laying eggs or caring for them in important wildlife areas....
May 6, 2010 11:41 AM
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NEON Gets Final Approval, Awaits Money to Start Construction
The most ambitious U.S. effort to assess environmental change on a continental scale won final approval yesterday from the oversight body of the National Science Foundation (NSF). More than...
GM Plants Moving Forward in Europe
Individual European Union nations may each decide whether to plant genetically modified crops under plans by the European Commission to boost GM crop production without legally changing its GM...
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