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- Life
Sardine fishery may be in peril
Cool ocean cycle, population slide evoke collapse of Pacific resource in the late 1940s.
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2011 Science News of the Year: Environment
Courtesy of Christopher Arp/USGS Arctic warming signs Climatologists pointing to the Arctic as the leading barometer of global change have plenty of new evidence that wholesale warming is under way. Observational data indicate that the region’s air, soils and water have warmed substantially since 2006, suggesting that the climate has established a “new normal” (SN […]
- Life
Antarctic humpbacks make a krill killing
Late-arriving sea ice enhances crustacean feast for whales, but the bounty may be fleeting.
- Physics
Acoustical Society of America
A new way to cough, music for the deaf, toadfish sonic sabotage and more in meeting news.
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The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean’s Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature by Richard Ellis
A rich exploration of the evolution and biology of this giant sea creature. Univ. Press of Kansas, 2011, 368 p., $34.95.
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Science Future for June 4, 2011
June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com
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Aliens in Antarctica
Visitors carry unwelcome species into a once pristine environment.
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- Space
European Planetary Science Conference and AAS Division for Planetary Sciences
News from a joint conference held October 2-7 in Nantes, France.
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The carbon footprint of industrial whaling
Blog: Over the past century, whale hunting released 128,000 Hummers’ worth of carbon into the atmosphere
