New baby orca, other discoveries made by tracking team
A new baby orca wasn't the only interesting discovery researchers made while tracking endangered killer whales.
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2015
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News tagged with national oceanic and atmospheric administration
SpaceX tries again to launch observatory, nixes landing test
SpaceX counted on better flying weather Wednesday as it geared up for the third time to launch a deep-space observatory, but canceled a radical rocket-landing test because of rough seas.
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2015
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SpaceX tries again to launch observatory, land rocket at sea (Update)
SpaceX is taking another stab Tuesday at launching an observatory into deep space and landing the rocket booster that carries it up.
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2015
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Good news and bad news for coral reefs
Some good news for coral reefs: In 2014, President Obama expanded the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument in the central Pacific from about 87,000 square miles to 308,000 square miles. The Monument "is the largest ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2015
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Cold-stunned turtles rehabilitated in New Orleans, released
Nearly two dozen turtles that were stranded by cold weather last year in Massachusetts have successfully undergone rehab and have been returned to waters off Louisiana's coast.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2015
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Forecasting and explaining bad air days in Utah's oil and gas fields
To accurately forecast wintertime bad air days in Utah's Uintah Basin, researchers must use real atmospheric measurements to estimate chemical emissions from nearby oil and natural gas fields, a new study in Atmospheric Chemistry ...
Environment
Jan 15, 2015
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Cold comfort: US weather in 2014 not too hot, disastrous
On a day when much of the U.S. struggled with bone-chilling cold, federal meteorologists said America's weather in 2014 wasn't really that bad.
Environment
Jan 8, 2015
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Report: Arctic loses snow, ice; absorbs more heat
(AP)—The Arctic and its future are looking dimmer every year, a new federal report says.
Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2014
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November global temps dip, Earth still nears heat record
The Earth is still on track for a record-breaking year for heat even though the average global temperature last month dipped to the seventh warmest since 1880, US government scientists said Monday.
Environment
Dec 15, 2014
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Texas biologists warm chilled sea turtles
(AP)—Marine biologists have flown dozens of endangered sea turtles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Galveston, Texas, for treatment of hypothermia.
Ecology
Dec 7, 2014
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