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NOAA designates critical habitat for black abalone

NOAA's Fisheries Service today filed with the Federal Register a final rule that identifies black abalone critical habitat along the California coast. In February 2009, black abalone was listed as endangered ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

California islands give up evidence of early seafaring

Evidence for a diversified sea-based economy among North American inhabitants dating from 12,200 to 11,400 years ago is emerging from three sites on California's Channel Islands.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Florida tests inventors' sand-cleaning ideas

(AP) -- Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

BP reattaches cap, but oil closes Florida beaches

BP resumed full siphoning operations from the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well , but Florida was forced to close down popular tourist beaches at the height of the summer season as more crude washed ashore.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Florida closes down oil-stained Pensacola beaches

Oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill reached the white sands of Pensacola in north-eastern Florida, forcing local authorities Thursday to close down area beaches to swimming at the height of summer.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Once nearly extinct, wild foxes on Catalina Island making a comeback

The population of endangered wild foxes on Santa Catalina Island soon could recover to levels not seen in a decade since canine distemper decimated them, biologists said this week.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

California's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets

A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

UC Riverside researcher names lichen after President Barack Obama

A researcher at UC Riverside has discovered a new species of lichen - a plant-like growth that looks like moss or a dry leaf - and named it after President Barack Obama.

Biology / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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