Credit where credit is due. In 2006 President Bush turned the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands into Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument, which formed the largest marine wildlife reserve in the world. It looks like he wasn’t done. Bush has just proposed protecting more islands, atolls, reefs, and trenches from fishing and deep sea mining. His list includes …
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UVeta
KPBS has posted a nice audio slide show of the UVeta project in Baja Sur. Water in Baja Sur’s remote areas is frequently from open wells, where the chance of contamination is high. Florence Cassassuce with Engineers without Borders came up with a way to use existing technology to make the water much safer – …
Mass Extinctions and ‘Rise of Slime’
A Scripps researcher has a paper out called Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean. The findings are not for the faint: Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world’s oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they …
Learn another language for free
Oso has a great round-up for free online resources that you can use to help learn another language.
Boston.com’s The Big Picture
In May Boston.com started a section on their site called The Big Picture. It is a blog style page with large sized AP photos of the news, rather than the postage stamp photos you get at most news sites. The quality of the photos is amazing, and each photo series really gives you a feeling …