filmy, pink dawn has just slipped above the horizon as the F/V Stormy Weather arrives at the fishing grounds. After a two-hour cruise from port in Hampton Beach, NH, the vessel has reached the southwest corner of Jeffrey's Ledge, a winding offshore ...
Dec. 12, 2008 | By now we all know what's in store for us if we continue on our emissions-happy path: increasingly hotter days, horrific droughts and floods, angrier storms, acidic ocean waters that will dissolve coral reefs, and a surging sea level ...
Aug. 1, 2008 | HINESBURG, Vt. -- As dusk settles over the forest, the mosquitoes start swarming in force. Scott Darling, a biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, unfurls a net across a wide path. Not five minutes later, the first bat ...
Inside a bright, freshly remodeled basement lab at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, John Collier slides a small white rectangle of polyethylene plastic toward me. He and I, along with his colleague Michael Mayor, are sitting at a large ...
Dame Anne McLaren, a geneticist and reproductive biologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who was one of the first to culture mouse embryos outside the womb, was killed in a car crash outside London on July 7. She was 80 years old. McLaren ...
June 29, 2007 | Rachel Carson has been shouldering a lot of blows lately, especially for a woman who has been dead more than 40 years. Last month marked the 100th birthday of the woman whose 1962 book, "Silent Spring," is credited with launching the ...
The National Institutes of Health has announced it will permanently stop breeding government-owned research chimpanzees, citing the cost of caring for chimps over their lifetime. Animal rights groups hailed the decision, but some scientists warned ...
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