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Nature conservationist takes on sea lion mystery
Jeff Corwin has done television segments on sea lions before, but not like the one he just wrapped up earlier this week at Laguna Beach's Pacific Marine Mammal Center. "It's a perfect ocean mystery for us. It really is an ocean mystery," Corwin said...
Tags: Jeff Corwin, Conservation, Demographics, ABC (tv network), Zoology
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National Weather Service gets big computing boost
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. "This is a game changer,"...Tags: Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Weather, Hurricane Sandy (2012), U.S. Department of Commerce, Energy Resources
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'Green' gas plans offer climate-friendly home heating
Guest blogger“Would you like to buy a carbon offset with your purchase today?” That’s a question you hear more often when you rent a car or buy groceries at MOM’S Organic Markets. Now, you also have that option when you buy natural gas to...Tags: Energy Saving, Home Heating, Worcester County, Energy, Gold Standard Incorporated
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Long Beach aquarium exhibit peers into ocean's dark depths
The Aquarium of the Pacific's newest exhibit introduces visitors to an eerie world beyond the reach of sunshine: the bottom of the ocean, a strange seascape of crushing pressure, volcanic fissures and an abundance of cryptic creatures. The Wonders of...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Pacific Ocean
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AccuWeather: Three U.S. hurricane strikes this year
Sun SentinelAccuWeather.com predicts a busy storm season with 16 named storms, including eight hurricanes, with four of those being major. The online weather site also projects that three hurricanes will strike the U.S. coastline, with the East and Gulf coasts...Tags: Weather, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, Hurricanes, Weather Reports
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Block Island Gets First Chance To Weigh In On Wind Turbines
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceWith just 1,000 men, women and children accustomed to - and often preferring - the seclusion their permanent residence affords, Block Island doesn't often have issues big enough to draw even one-tenth of its year-round population out of their homes on a...Tags: Weather, Conservation, Denmark, Electricity Production and Distribution, Solar Energy
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches record levels
On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958. Independent measurements made by both NOAA (National Oceanic...
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Internal report on feds' Sandy forecasts: Clear in tracking its path, confusing on warnings
AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall, but the warnings themselves were confusing, an internal review found. The gigantic October storm lost tropical characteristics hours before...Tags: Weather, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather Warnings, New York City, Washington, DC
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AccuWeather predicts another active hurricane season for U.S. shores
AccuWeather.com is predicting another active Atlantic hurricane season, particularly for the U.S. coastline. While the Pennsylvania-based meteorology company is calling for fewer storms in all, with 16 tropical storms versus 19 in 2012, AccuWeather's...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather, Natural Disasters, Weather Warnings, National Weather Service
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Sun fires off fourth major solar flare of the week--more expected
There she goes again! The same region of the sun that brought you three powerful solar flares in a 24-hour span from Sunday night to Monday evening let loose Tuesday night with another explosive flash of ultraviolet radiation and sent tons of its own...
Tags: NASA, Astronomy, Solar Storms (2012)
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared - study
Reuters* Seas to rise 16.5 to 69 cm with moderate warming-ice2sea * Melt of Greenland, Antarctica less severe than expected By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 14 (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less...Tags: Greenland, Nuclear Power, Weather, Oceans, Antarctica
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: study
ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Even so, such a rise could...Tags: Greenland, Nuclear Power, Oceans, Weather, Antarctica
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