From the monthly archives: August 2010

Climate change ignorance unacceptable.

By On August 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Andrew Trounson, Higher Education Supplement, The Australian, August 11, 2010 12:00AM

LABOR’S Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has hit out at anti-scientific opinion on climate change. He has warned that the scientific method was coming under public attack, undermining science and replacing it with irrationality.

“In all fields [...]

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Julie Packard on our oceans

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Julie Packard, Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Huffington Post: July 16, 2010 10:40 AM

The oil blowout that’s fouled the Gulf of Mexico since April is many things: a human tragedy, an environmental disaster and a wake-up call.

But it’s not the greatest crisis facing the oceans today. We’ll be dealing [...]

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Fish evolve to tolerate colder temperature in just three years

By On August 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

A stickleback may be a long way from a coral reef, but here’s an interesting paper showing one of the fastest evolutionary responses in a vertebrate.  The key here is that generation times are short (less than 6 months), unlike those in corals: From ScienceDaily:

University of British Columbia researchers have [...]

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