National Academies advisory: Indian Point nuclear power plant
...t the Indian Point nuclear power plant, located 40 miles north of New York City, may be vulnerable to a terrorist attack as well, and some called for the plant to be shut down. Alternatives to the Indian Point energy center for meeting New York electric power needs, new from the National Academies' Natio......CKGROUND: The Dry Tortugas, a remote area about 70 miles west of Key West, is known for its extensive coral reefs, fish, sharks, lobsters, and other marine life. In 2000, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was allowed to set aside no-take areas, forming the Tortugas Ecological Reserve, which is bei...Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs
...e Bahamas side of the Straits of Florida, about 10 miles from Bimini. From May 27-30 they will be on the Florida side, beginning about 20 miles out from Miami, though all the reefs are part of the same geological system. After a quick personne......e Bahamas side of the Straits of Florida, about 10 miles from Bimini, and from May 27-30, they will work on the Florida side, beginning about 20 miles out from Miami, though all the reefs are part of the same geological system. After a quick personne...... all seven continents, including from within 1,000 miles of both the south and north poles. He has produced radio stories and documentaries on science and the environment for National Public Radio's environmental show Living on Earth; National Public Radio's news magazine Weekend Edition; Public Radio Inte...Exxon Valdez oil found in tidal feeding grounds of ducks, sea otters
...assive clean-up efforts, Short estimates about six miles of shoreline is still affected by the spill and as much as 100 tons of oil lingers in the Sound. In their study, Short and his colleagues found significant amounts of Exxon Valdez oil buried in sand and silt that only becomes dry during the lowest t...Penn receives $4 million to establish a Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
... County; and Palmerton, in Carbon County, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia. "The idea is to have two-way dialogues, to disseminate findings of the center to community leaders by way of workshops and other educational programs," explains Penning. "We're also looking for community leaders to tell us the...Scientists describe new African monkey genus first in 83 years
...to his molecular lab in Fairbanks, more than 8,500 miles away." The molecular data recovered from muscle tissue and analyzed in detail by Olson shows Kipunji is most closely related to baboons in the genus Papio, and not to Lophocebus, the genus to which Kipunji was originally assigned. The in-depth analy...UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine receives gift from Dolbys
...nds. One lab has been carrying out its research 30 miles away from the Parnassus Campus, at Geron Corp., which funds part of its research. Another lab has been conducting the research in rented space in a former commercial office in San Francisco. During this time, the labs have derived a total of 11 new l...K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies
...use it can fly as low as 15 feet and as slow as 30 miles per hour if necessary, we're going to be able to see details that we cannot measure with a regular piloted aircraft. "I think it will be possible not only to be able to say how much and what species of vegetation are there, but more importantly, to k...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...etect signs of Hurricane Katrina from thousands of miles away (2aAO6). As the hurricane traveled over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall,resulting ocean waves generated seismic waves which propagated to adepth of 1100 km. Such observations indicate that even distant seismic stations may have useful funct...Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them
...uman scale, that's the staggering equivalent of 20 miles or more. On the FSU faculty since 1970, Tschinkel's wide-ranging research has also encompassed the ecology of arboreal ants (a main food of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker) and the natural history of the Florida harvester ant or "any other sp...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
...elying on flood protection provided by hundreds of miles of often underdesigned, poorly maintained levees, ...afety is particularly acute," he added. "The 1,600 miles of aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are part of a unique, valued and vulnerable ecos...Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
... a region of Arizona that spans about 2,500 square miles (6,600 square kilometers). Much of the field and lab work was done by Manda G. Cattaneo as part of her master's research at UA. Cattaneo is now an extension entomologist at Texas A&M University in College Station. The multidisciplinary team will p...Gigantic meat-eating dinosaur discovered
...der cousin, Giganotosaurus. The discovery, made 15 miles south of the city of Plaza Huincul in 1995, took five years of excavation under the direction of Coria and Currie who removed 100 tons of sandstone from a desert hilltop. For a century giant meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex were assum...Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals
... of exploration in Canada's Nunavut Territory, 600 miles from the North Pole, by paleontologists from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, the University of Chicago and Harvard University. Although the team has amassed a diverse assemblage of fossil fish, Shubin said, the discovery of these tra...New Arctic fossils fill evolutionary gap between fish and limbed animals
...a remote valley of Ellesmere Island, more than 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in Canada's Nunavut Territory. It was the fourth summer they had spent there amassing a diverse array of fossil fish dating to the late Devonian Period (380-365 million years ago). Tantalizing fragments uncovered in 2000 c......ted 1,500 residents. Camiguin is only 102 square miles (265 square kilometers). It has been continuously isolated from its neighbors, even during the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, when sea levels dropped to 130 yards (120 meters) below present levels. This isolation contributed to the differentiation of t...Ocean acidification threatens cold-water coral ecosystems
...al seas; some species are found at depths of three miles or more in cold, dark waters throughout the world's oceans. Some cold-water coral reefs are home to more than 1,300 species of animals, a diversity rivaling some better known tropical coral reefs. Until now, scientists believed bottom trawling a com......hoenix Islands form an archipelago several hundred miles long. They are part of the Republic of Kiribati, which comprises three distinct island groups (Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands and Line Islands) with a total of 33 islands to make it the largest atoll nation in the world. President Anote Tong said e...