I felt like this was too important not to mention. Four common ingredients in sunscreen are the cause of coral reef death according to a recent study. The chemicals wash off of swimmers’ bodies and activate dormant viruses in symbiotic algae that live on the reefs. This symbiotic algae provides reefs with food. It also [...]
Archive for 30 January 2008
Flow my tears, the Coral Reef said
Posted: 30 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: algae, coral reefs, environmentalism, marine biology, reef bleaching, roberto danovaro, sunbathing, sunscreen
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The Crowd Thins
Posted: 30 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: clinton, edwards, epic fail, giuliani, mccain, obama, politics, presidential election, romney
Well, Edwards is all set to announce he is dropping out of the democratic race and Ghouliani has withdrawn from the republican side. Of the mainstream democrat candidates, Edwards was the least likely to become corporate lapdog of the year. He had some unfortunate things against him, which made me less than meh about his [...]
Help Science Funding
Posted: 30 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: activism, america competes, funding, innovation, nist, nsf, petitions, science funding
The current omnibus package for 2008 does not provide funding for many of the science programs that were promised in the America COMPETES Act passed last August. If something doesn’t happen, it will mean less funding for the NSF, NIST, and DOE Office of Science for this fiscal year. In turn, innovation in science in [...]
