Tag: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  • Link Between Food Web and Green House Gas Emissions Found in Ocean

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    Earthsky blog reports on a study that uncovers one of the “first and best examples of a direct link between a food web and the dynamics that control greenhouse gas emissions from the ocean.” Results of the study, which was funded primarily by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Ministry of Education and…

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    At least one government agency is serious about climate change.  In this month’s Mother Jones, Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney write about a scientific study funded by the CIA to investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth’s environment and stop climate change: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the…

  • Mermaids Could Be Real

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    Amanda Shore highlights a two-hour Animal Planet special headlined, Mermaids: The Body Found.  The show makes a pretty convincing case for the existence of human-like aquatic mammals they call mermaids.  The first piece of evidence found is a sound “bloop” from an unknown species: Paul Robertson, a former employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…