Article Archive for March 2006
Posted in Campaign, General on 27 March 2006
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abcnews.go.com Misinformation Campaign Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan blames a 15-year misinformation campaign by the oil and coal industries. “The point of this campaign was not necessarily to persuade the public that global warming isn’t happening,” Gelbspan said. “It was to persuade the public that there is this state of confusion.” A 1998 memo by [...]
Posted in Discovery on 22 March 2006
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ifremer The animal, collected on a vent site called Annies Anthill (S of Easter Island, 38°S, 2300 m depth) has surprising characters, which most visible are the presence of a dense seta covering the appendices regularly carrying the legs. Observed under the electron microscope, these seta reveal the presence of many filamentous bacteria. The role [...]
Posted in Campaign on 21 March 2006
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www.climatecrisis.net With wit, smart and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore’s persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue – rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization. Click below for the trailer. http://video.google.com ===================================================================== Aview on an interview with Al Gore, [...]
Posted in Campaign on 18 March 2006
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California would be the first state on the West Coast to establish a chain of marine reserves. The parks would serve as nurseries to replenish fish and other sea life depleted by more than a century of commercial and sport fishing, state officials http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/14/MNGDOHNPOI1.DTL&type=science
Posted in Discovery on 15 March 2006
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National geographic The shark was found in a deep-sea fishing catch in 2003, making it the first new shark species to be identified in the gulf in over 30 years. The discovery was announced in the journal Copeia in December. The species, known as Mustelus hacat, grows up to three and a quarter feet (one [...]
Posted in Discovery on 10 March 2006
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History : : Diatomyidae are rodents that lived during the middle Tertiary (34 – 11 million years ago) in southern Asia, central China, and Japan. They were rodents of medium size and highly characteristic molar teeth and jaw structure. Three known fossil genera- Fallomus, Diatomys, and Willmus- are recognized in the [...]


