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IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Peter Fairley |
Neptune Rising The biggest undersea observatory ever conceived is taking shape off North America's Pacific coast. |
Reactive Reports Issue 49 David Bradley |
Fertility Threat Acquittal for PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), commonly found in dielectric fluids for electrical components, may damage sperm, but do not appear to have dramatic effects on human fertility. |
Reactive Reports Issue 49 David Bradley |
Katrina and the Waves Researches discover that the floodwaters rushing into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are not as toxic to humans as previously thought; however aquatic life may suffer. |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Loop Current Enhances Wilma The onslaught of hurricanes this season has provided researchers with ample data to study how the "Loop Current" in the Gulf contributes to hurricane strength. |
Smithsonian November 2005 Elizabeth Royte |
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin This ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation. |
Smithsonian November 2005 Gary Paul Nabhan |
35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant Over a three-decade career as an agricultural scientist, Mt. Pleasant has revitalized interest in the ancient Iroquois tradition of growing food through polyculture, a system that allows interdependent plants to flourish. |
Smithsonian November 2005 Frans Lanting |
35 Who Made a Difference: David Attenborough The natural history filmmaker has brought serious science to a global audience. |
Smithsonian November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture. |
Scientific American November 2005 Krista West |
Scoping Out the Planet Geophysicists hope that EarthScope yields unprecedented data about faults and plates. It may do for geoscience what human genome sequencing did for biology. |
Scientific American October 24, 2005 Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
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