New orca calf reported in southern resident J pod
A new calf has been born to J pod, Canadian whale-watch companies were reporting Friday.
Plants & Animals
Jun 04, 2019
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News tagged with pods
Don't fall for it: A parent's guide to protecting your kids from online hoaxes
It's a parent's responsibility to protect their children from harm, no matter where that threat of harm comes from. But what if the threat is a hoax?
Other
Mar 19, 2019
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E-cigarettes: The new hazardous waste
Single-use plastic straws, bags and coffee pods have captured the attention of the public and legislatures looking to ban products that wind up littering the landscape. But at the same time, e-cigarettes have begun to show ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2018
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Self-healing seed pods
An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has discovered a self-sealing mechanism in the seed pods of Banksia plants: special waxes in the junction zone ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 03, 2018
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A mathematical model explains how popping cress catapults its seeds into the air
Plants use many strategies to disperse their seeds, but among the most fascinating are exploding seed pods. Scientists had assumed that the energy to power these explosions was generated through the seed pods deforming as ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 03, 2016
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Baby is born to endangered killer whale pod off Washington
Scientists say a baby has been born to an endangered group of killer whales off Washington state, marking the fifth birth among the region's three pods since December.
Plants & Animals
Sep 08, 2015
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Keurig coffee share grows-so does environmental controversy
One measure of how heated the environmental battle has become over coffee giant Keurig Green Mountain's $5 billion-a-year, single-serve plastic pods is how often the company's opponents resort to galactic comparisons.
Environment
Mar 17, 2015
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U.K. town to deploy driverless pods to replace busses
(Phys.org) —Milton Keynes, a town north of London, has announced that it will be deploying 100 driverless pods (officially known as ULTra PRT transport pods) as a public transportation system. A similar system has been ...
NOAA: Puget Sound killer whales to stay protected
Federal scientists have decided Puget Sound killer whales will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Ecology
Aug 02, 2013
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Plant that only flowers once in seven years has blossomed
(Phys.org) —A relatively rare plant that flowers only once in seven years and then dies has blossomed - delighting horticulturalists at the University of Aberdeen.
Plants & Animals
Jul 09, 2013
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