Guest post: The March…OF SCIENCE
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By , on November 19th, 2012 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Education   , , ,  

This is a guest post from Sam Musher. Sam is a middle school librarian and children’s lit blogger. A steady diet of post-apocalyptic fiction made her an environmentalist at a tender age. (She’s pretty sure we’re all doomed.) Having known her almost that long, I can confirm that she has, as her blog claims, been . . . → Read More: Guest post: The March…OF SCIENCE

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Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
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By , on March 24th, 2009 9 comments   Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming

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Nerve Toxins In The Deep
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By , on March 23rd, 2009 One comment   Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep

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Warfare Ecology
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By , on March 12th, 2009 5 comments   Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change, ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.” The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology

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Lancaster, the Chesapeake Bay, and Blue Crabs
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By , on December 29th, 2008 6 comments   Conservation & Environment    

I’m spending the holidays in Lancaster County, PA – America’s first inland city. That’s Long’s Park on the left. These are my old stomping grounds- about 100 miles from the nearest deep-sea habitat off the coast of New Jersey. You feel the connection to the oceans, though, as you drive through picturesque farm fields . . . → Read More: Lancaster, the Chesapeake Bay, and Blue Crabs

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There Is Plenty Oil!
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By , on February 11th, 2007 32 comments   Conservation & Environment   , , , , , , ,  

Szabo is right, oil will sustains us for years to come, almost 20 or even 30. That means I can drive my Hummer around until I well into my 50′s. Those are going to be some very sweet times indeed. I can take my three-armed children down to the beach, its surely going to be a warm day, and play in the acidic ocean. And as I am driving home in my wonderfully large SUV, we can enjoy the beautiful sunset because of increased particulates in the air. What a glorious time! . . . → Read More: There Is Plenty Oil!

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