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July 16, 2010 2:02 PM
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Official Reminder: A Hotter Millennium Is a Bad Thing
A committee of the National Research Council (NRC) weighed in today with the latest and most quantitative estimates yet of how the coming global warming could affect the world....
July 13, 2010 6:02 PM
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Top Engineers to Investigate Cause of Oil Spill
Investigations into the gulf oil disaster are multiplying. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of...
July 12, 2010 5:45 PM
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Why the Oil Spill Didn't Change the Climate Game: Author Says Blame Obama
The Senate climate/energy bill expected to emerge this week is likely to lack a cap on greenhouse gases. Even a much-discussed, watered-down version to impose restrictions on the power...
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 6:24 PM
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Climate Guru Kevin Trenberth: Russell Report Went Easy on Skeptics
E-mailed comments from top climate scientist Kevin Trenberth on today’s Muir Russell report
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...
July 7, 2010 4:55 PM
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Authoritative Skeptic John Christy: Russell Report 'Without Serious Merit'
An e-mail today on the Russell report from John Christy, a respected climate scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, who questions humanity's role in climate change: Without an...
July 7, 2010 2:55 PM
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Russell Review Calls for More Openness in Climate Science
Although today's Russell report was mostly positive in its dismissal of allegations against climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA), it did assert repeatedly that scientists there...
July 7, 2010 8:28 AM
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East Anglia Climate Scientists Largely Cleared in Final Major Investigation
The fifth and, so far, most thorough major investigation into the published mails from the University of East Angia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has given the CRU a relatively...
July 6, 2010 7:00 PM
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U.K. Seeks Sites to Store the Nation's Nuclear Waste
At a briefing held yesterday to outline plans for an underground repository for high-activity nuclear waste in the United Kingdom, Bruce McKirdy of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said...
July 6, 2010 5:37 PM
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EPA Rule Would Reduce Interstate Pollution
When soot and other pollution blows away from power plants, the emissions can cause problems for nearby states that are trying to clean up their air. Today, the Environmental...
July 6, 2010 2:06 PM
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Science's Richard A. Kerr on the Challenge of Drilling a Relief Well
On Friday Science's Richard Kerr published a story in Science on the challenge of drilling a relief well; BP is currently drilling two to hopefully stop the gulf gusher....
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 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 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 2:21 PM
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Gulf Cruise Raises Questions on Methane, But Much Data Still to Analyze
Preliminary results from a research cruise measuring methane in deep water near the gushing BP well point to large concentrations of the gas, but what that means for the...
June 22, 2010 5:12 PM
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Can Sonar Detect Undersea Oil Plumes?
Among the biggest questions about the Deepwater Horizon spill is how much oil remains underwater and where it is going. Figuring it out has been frustratingly slow with existing...
June 22, 2010 2:25 PM
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As Climate Scientists Battle the Press, One Receives Rare Apology From Paper
Researchers often grouse about the press—but it's rare for scientists to successfully challenge the accuracy of a media report and win public apologies. But scientists have recently won battles...
June 21, 2010 5:28 PM
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Scientists 'Convinced' of Climate Consensus More Prominent Than Opponents, Says Paper
A new analysis of 1372 climate scientists who have participated in major climate science reviews or have signed statements in support or opposition to their main conclusions confirms what...
June 16, 2010 6:12 PM
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One Ballsy Proposal to Stop the Leak
Is there a quick way to stop the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico? One maverick scientist says the answer may be as simple as dropping steel...
June 16, 2010 5:57 PM
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Obama Raises Profile of Gulf Restoration in Primetime Speech
Scientists know that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon well is just the latest affliction for coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico. So they were pleased when...
June 15, 2010 5:17 PM
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Gulf Oil Flow as Fast as 60,000 Barrels Per Day
Administration officials announced late today that the Deepwater Horizon well is most likely gushing 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day and possibly even more. The previous best estimates fell...
June 15, 2010 4:46 PM
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Slick Models Suggest 'It's Anyone's Guess' When Oil Will Reach Atlantic
BOULDER, COLORADO—As the gulf oil spill grows, scientists here are refining models of the slick's behavior in hopes of developing a more accurate picture of its future movements. They...
June 15, 2010 12:56 PM
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Scientists Get Seats on Oil Spill Commission
Two prominent scientists will serve on the presidential commission tasked with investigating the causes of the Deepwater Horizon accident and recommending ways to deal with future oil spills. Cherry...
June 11, 2010 2:00 PM
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What the Gulf Disaster Could Tell Us About Sudden Global Warming
Could the gushing BP well help explain an ancient climate mystery? Today, a crew of scientists are setting off for roughly 10 days to take measurements near the gushing...
June 11, 2010 12:01 AM
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Polls: Public Belief in Climate Change Remains Strong Following Controversies
At a briefing held yesterday, researchers from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom announced the initial findings of a new survey on the public's perceptions about climate change, which...
June 10, 2010 6:02 PM
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New Estimate Bumps Oil Flow to as Much as 40,000 Barrels a Day
One of the government's scientific teams tasked with estimating the rate at which oil is flowing out of the burst well have announced a new figure: Between 20,000 and...
June 10, 2010 6:02 PM
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EPA Keeps Authority Over Greenhouse Emissions in Senate Vote
An effort by by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) to reject a finding by EPA that carbon dioxide endangers human health was defeated this afternoon in a 47-to-53 vote. Senate...
June 10, 2010 3:53 PM
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Would More Water in the Mississippi Keep Oil From the Wetlands?
One of the unsung heroes in the fight to save Louisiana's wetlands from the oil spill is the Mississippi River. The flow of fresh water into the Gulf of...
June 9, 2010 4:43 PM
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Is It Antiscience to Limit EPA's Authority on Greenhouse Emissions?
Regardless of its fate, a proposal before the U.S. Senate to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) has raised important questions about the role...
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 4, 2010 6:30 PM
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NOAA Asks for Time Out on Oil Plume Research Cruises
Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), yesterday repeated her plea for researchers to be cautious in collecting and interpreting evidence of underwater plumes of...
June 4, 2010 5:08 PM
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Federal Seafood Testers Turn From Clean to Oiled Gulf Seas
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—As the oil spill has spread in the Gulf of Mexico, federal seafood toxicologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been racing to sample clean...
June 4, 2010 4:43 PM
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Not Just Pelicans in Peril, But Pancake Batfish, Too
As far as oil spill poster animals go, the pancake batfish seems unlikely to capture any hearts. "They're really weird," says Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University...
June 4, 2010 3:55 PM
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Oil Likely Headed North
Modelers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, have dramatized what researchers have been pointing out for weeks: Some of the oil being spilled into the Gulf...
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 3, 2010 4:03 PM
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At Last, NOAA Plans Oil Spill Data Web Site
One of the frustrations of academic scientists over the past few weeks has been the difficulty of getting data collected by the federal agencies responding to the oil spill....
June 3, 2010 3:39 PM
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Sand Berm Funding Grows, But No Cash Yet
UPDATE: BP has announced that it will fund the six approved sections of the sand berm project, estimated to cost $360 million. The company says it will make payments based...
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