TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Copepods, everywhere you look (and even where you don't) Editor's Note: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution oceanographer and photographer Chris Linder and science writer Helen Fields are taking part in a six-week cruise of the Bering Sea, a scientific expedition to study the effects of climate change on this polar ecosystem. This is the fifth blog post. To see all their posts, see "60 Seconds in the Bering Sea." ON THE ICEBREAKER HEALY IN THE BERING SEA (at latitude 59.8189 N and longitude 171.7072 W), May 7, 2009--Crustaceans come in all sizes. At the top end of the scale are crabs with foot-long legs and tasty lobsters. Down near the bottom are copepods, bug-like critters the size of a pencil point. Copepods live in fresh water and in the ocean. They get in your hair when you go swimming at the beach. And if you put a plankton net over the side of a boat in the Bering Sea, you’re going to get a ton of them. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Tropical storm Andres heading towards Baja Surfers take note: Tropical Storm Andres could hit the resort town of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California later this week. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Is There a Place for Nuclear Waste? Two weeks after President Barack Obama pulled the plug on Yucca Mountain, the site near Las Vegas where the federal government has been trying for 22 years to open a repository for nuclear waste, geochemist James L. Conca came to Washington, D.C., with an idea in his pocket.Conca has been assigned by the state of New Mexico to monitor the environment around a different federal nuclear dump, one used for defense-related plutonium, and where others see problems, he sees opportunity. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Beneath the Big Soda Bottle The landmark Pepsi-Cola sign in Hunters Point, Queens, serves as a doorway of sorts to a vibrant neighborhood one that includes an improvised beach with great views. travel.nytimes.com |
Happy Campers Command Stage in Macy’s Parade At Stagedoor Manor, a Catskills theater camp, young performers spend four days in rehearsal to ride the float and perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. nytimes.com |