Nat’l Geographic: In Nigeria, the haphazard pace of renewable energy
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: , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Miller-McCune : Here’s climate adaptation in action . Wildlife refuge plans to fortify against or migrate with climate change . Wolves and . all Nat’l Geographic : In Nigeria , the haphazard pace of renewable energy National Geographic to be sure is , and always has been , a publication with global reach and a penchant for the most remote datelines possible . Nonetheless here’s a salute for reporting from Africa a topic not often seen in any sort of US press : alternative energy in developing . countries Freelance writer Bolanle Omisore datelines it Lagos , Nigeria but she spent most of her time reporting from just west of the city , out in Lagos . Lagoon She describes , from that microcosm , the way things are
: . . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Washington Post : Scientists appalled as US may renege on joint Mars sampling mission with . Europe Nat’l Geographic : In Nigeria , the haphazard pace of renewable energy Miller-McCune : Here’s climate adaptation in action . Wildlife refuge plans to fortify against or migrate with climate change . Wolves and . all The Miller-McCune magazine its about page has out today from writer Jim Morrison an enterprising long account from the Alligator River Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina . Some of us have read about this place before because of its program to save red wolves , and also because the low-lying area is vulnerable to erosion and to its main enabler , sea level rise . One learns here a further discouraging
: . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Update w science AP , etc : Rare Oklahoma earthquake gets lots of ink . Not much science journalilsm to be found . Miller-McCune : Here’s climate adaptation in action . Wildlife refuge plans to fortify against or migrate with climate change . Wolves and . all Washington Post : Scientists appalled as US may renege on joint Mars sampling mission with . Europe The sour economy and forced budget cuts may mean a halt , and soon , to NASA’s decades-long habit of dispatching probes to Mars every two years or so . The Washington Post s Brian Vastag got an earful after sitting down with NASA bosses , researchers , and various academic Mars researchers The immediate news is that the US space agency is markedly reluctant to
, : . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Lots of Ink : An asteroid to slip past Earth right on schedule , radars will inspect it , no worries this time Washington Post : Scientists appalled as US may renege on joint Mars sampling mission with . Europe Update w science AP , etc : Rare Oklahoma earthquake gets lots of ink . Not much science journalilsm to be found . News outlets in US regional markets have long since retired most of the science writers they once had , if any . Thus other than from a few national or international agencies coverage of the weekend’s flurry of moderate to small earthquake’s in Oklahoma dealt mainly with broken dishes and chimneys . It is news mainly because the state is within the North American craton , a solid hunk of
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: , . . Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Wired , AP , Nat’l Geo etc : Sun grows its biggest spot in years , sprays particles this time , not at us The Tyee : Where’d the herring go It does matter , you . know AP : Global warming our fault We’re sure to see for sure , soon . CO2 emissions . soaring As if things weren’t frightening enough for those of us worried climate is going to pot and humanity’s collective intelligence is vastly ovverrated , now this . Word broke yesterday that the latest figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide have punched right past the worst case scenarios from scientists who probably thought global decision makers would have stood up by now and ordered industrialists to cut back on fossil fuels . already The story , nearly as I
, , : , , Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Phil . Inquirer : Krakengate included a lot of deplorable science writing . So say bright college science . students AP : Global warming our fault We’re sure to see for sure , soon . CO2 emissions . soaring Wired , AP , Nat’l Geo etc : Sun grows its biggest spot in years , sprays particles this time , not at us A solar storm with a large , roiling dark sunspot at its root got some attention in the news today after it rolled into view on the rotating sun that sparkly spot toward the upper left of the righthand pic At Wired Adam Mann calls it or his editor does a behemoth in the headline , at AP Seth Borenstein labels it a benevolent monster it kindly aimed its eruption column in another direction than
, , : Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment Linces a Inglaterra para evitar su extinción , fósiles en Argentina , plásticos a partir de CO2, y ciencia española demasiado funcionarial Phil . Inquirer : Krakengate included a lot of deplorable science writing . So say bright college science . students AP , RocketScience , etc : A drab little wren and her beau sure sing a fancy duet So l et’s hit the weekend with a song in our hearts but don’t try to mimic the plain-tailed wrens of South American woods . Their mating rituals start off with a duet , the female handling the tricky bits while the male , apparently in a test of fitness , doing a little voice bongo to fill the gaps in her staccato stanzas . In Science this week a Johns Hopkins researcher reports
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