TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| In a Dense District, a Park in Peril Residents protest the scheduled demise of a neighborhood playground. nytimes.com |
FBI Sting Catches Alleged Archaeological Thieves in Southwest Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest. But after a 60-year-old physician committed suicide over the weekend, Utah senators are saying the raid was overkill. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Little money left to power-down nuclear reactors Many of the nation’s nuclear power plants don’t have enough cash set aside to close down safely, according to a wire report late last week. And a hastily closed plant could result in such ills as water contamination and theft of nuclear materials. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Underwater Rover Searches the Ocean Floor for Signs of Climate Change While the Spirit and Opportunity rovers this summer soldiered on after more than five years on Mars (despite a number of glitches) , an intrepid bot called the benthic rover created by scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) showed its chops as a remote research vehicle by spending most of July traveling over the Pacific Ocean floor about 40 kilometers off the California coast, some 900 meters below sea level. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears [Slide Show] For most of May Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz , poured liters of fermented cattle blood mixed with pureed rotten fish guts on 3,000 square kilometers of British Columbia's coastal wilderness. [More] rss.sciam.com |