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Science News
January 29, 2005
Janet Raloff |
'Harmless' Alga Indicted for Mussel Poisoning Over the past decade, scores of Europeans have been poisoned by eating mussels harvested at various sites along the coast of Ireland. although pesticides or other pollutants were at first suspected, this bout of food poisoning traced to a common planktonic alga.   |
Geotimes
September 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Hurricanes Intensify Red Tides Off Gulf Four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004, dousing the state with some of its heaviest rainfall in more than three decades. All of that water, a team of researchers says, may have set the stage for a large "red tide" off the state's west-central coast in 2005. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2012
Hayley Birch |
Ocean fertilization shows carbon sequestration promise New data from iron fertilization experiments in the Southern Ocean support the idea that artificially created algal blooms can draw carbon to the bottom of the ocean, where it may be stored for centuries. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Sara Pratt |
Dead Zones Off New Jersey Researchers say coastal hypoxia is caused by ocean processes, not river runoff, that are responsible for the oxygen depletion and the resulting hazards that the events pose to bottom-dwelling organisms. |
Geotimes
May 2004
David Lawrence |
New Centers for Ocean and Health Research The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) recently announced funding for four joint research centers to conduct basic research into how marine phenomena may harm or enhance people's health. |
Finefishing Saltwater
Louis Bignami |
Poke Pole Even Captain Slocum couldn't cruise forever. So if you live near the rocky coast of Washington, Oregon or British Columbia and haven't tried poke poling, you miss maximum action at a minimum investment. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Callan Bentley |
Geology's Maine event Travelers to Maine will find much of interest to a geologist |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
Chemistry World
November 8, 2012
Maria Burke |
Analytical test for shellfish poisoning saves 14,000 mice Until recently, standard tests to detect toxins in shellfish involved mice. But now the UK has replaced these animal tests with new analytical chemistry techniques that saved 14,000 mice in 2012. |
