Well as we don’t know yet we have been harming our turtles and their babies. We have been threatening them because we try to put signs and nets but no one listens. Even when they say they are about to be ext inced we just don’t seem to get the message through our heads. Poachers have [...]
Entries from September 10th, 2009
Scientists Find “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch”
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
This article is about all the plastic debris that has been found in the Pacific Ocean. It is called the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. A very fitting name seeing as that is what it is. A research vessel left from a port in San Diego to go some 1,000 miles off the coast of California to [...]
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A robot in the ocean?
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Scientists are always creating new robots for different jobs. One of the newest robots has been made to travel across the sea floor. Many scientists, engineers, and marine biologists have worked on this robot for four years. The robots name is Benthic Rover. This robot moves along the ocean floor taking pictures and measuring [...]
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What do Health, Climate, Ecosystems and Financial Markets Have in Common?
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Though these terms may seem different, they all have one common factor: change. The shift in the above are all proving to be warning signs of a drastic change in our world. Also, they are all slowly reaching there “tipping point,” because they are shifting so suddenly. The current state of these things are exceeding [...]
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Scientists Seek New Emphases In Arctic Climate Change Research
September 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
This article is about climate change in the arctic and how it affects the animals. Over the last 150 years the average temperature of our world increased by .72 Fahrenheit .4 Celsius. Also, the average arctic temperature is expected to raise 6 Celsius. This means the snow will melt and icecaps will collapse. The [...]
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Dogs Smart as 2 year olds
September 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Biology
The article I have chosen to post about is entitled “Dogs’ Intelligence On Par With Two-Year-old Human, Canine Researcher Says”. In the article it starts off by telling us that dogs are capable of understanding more than 150 words by memory and are as well able to trick and deceive humans or other dogs for [...]
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Hamster-like Pika in Peril
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
.. This article talks about hamster-like pika in peril, which basically is saying how there disappearing and Global warming is causing some of this to happen. And a national geographic researcher is trying to find out why its numbers are failing. they have to have an internal heater going on and a high metabolism so that [...]
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Crocodiles talk in their eggs
September 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Scientists have done research, proving that crocodiles communicate while still in their eggs. Just before they hatch they talk to each other. Scientists were puzzled why the crocodiles communicate before they even hatch. They thought of a few ideas, the main idea they came up all together, so that the mother can take them all [...]
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Soldiers Survive, but Can They Avoid Brain Damage?
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Today soldiers have better protection than they ever have before. The survival rate is higher for a soldier today, so more tests have been done on those survivors to see the physical results of war. Soldiers’ helmets protect them from bullets, but they may not be protecting them from serious damage to their brain. TBI, [...]
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Nitrate In Leafy Green Vegetables
September 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
Leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, Asian greens, and spinach can accumulate high concentrations of nitrate–nitrogen. which consumed by humans is potentially harmful. To measure (NO3-N) nitrate–nitrogen concentration in plant tissue, many laboratories use ion selective electrodes.click here to read more. Its important to know about the vegetables we eat and what it can contain. It is also [...]
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