Monday, October 3, 2016

ALERT: Red Tide Hits Tampa Bay Area and other top stories.

  • ALERT: Red Tide Hits Tampa Bay Area

    Sep 28, 2016 04:00 AM EDT Florida Wildlife Commission and Mote Marine Laboratory officials have confirmed that red tide has hit the Tampa Bay area. Right after hitting Longboat Key, the red tide has afflicted Lido Key and Siesta Key beaches as well, and will reportedly last for two weeks to a few months. "This is the time of year we get red tide," stated Kelly Richmond, communications director for the Florida Wildlife Commission. "There's so many factors involved we can't pinpoint how long it..
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  • [ September 27, 2016 ] SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars News

    [ September 27, 2016 ] SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars News
    Elon Musk presents his Mars colonization vision at the International Astronautical Congress on Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico. Credit: Tim Dodd/Spaceflight Now/www.timdoddphotography.com SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Tuesday outlined an ambition to send humans to Mars with methane-fueled reusable spaceships and the largest rocket ever built, an effort he said will likely require government support and initially cost billions of dollars to develop and test. Musk’s rollout of his Mars colon..
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  • Did your zodiac sign change? Don't worry, NASA says astrology is still fake

    Did your zodiac sign change? Don't worry, NASA says astrology is still fake
    All over the world, people check their horoscopes to see what's in store for them for the day. For most, it is an entertaining, meaningless diversion, but a few genuinely believe in their predictions based on their astrological signs sign. But NASA is causing waves in the astrological community for its recent suggestion that the astrological signs – constellations that are at a certain point in the sky for certain point in the year – have changed as the Earth's axis has shifted over the centuri..
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  • Manatee rescued off Massachusetts coast is pregnant, aquatic officials say

    Manatee rescued off Massachusetts coast is pregnant, aquatic officials say
    Aquatic officials have announced an update regarding the health of a manatee rescued from Cape Cod earlier this month: she's expecting.  The manatee was spotted by boaters off the coast of Massachusetts this summer and conservations feared for her health as she remained in the cooling waters in September.  The 1,100-pound marine mammal was found in East Falmouth last week and transported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare to the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut for rehabilitation. Mana..
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  • Earth 'Locked Into' Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years

    Earth 'Locked Into' Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years
    By Nika KnightEarth is the warmest it's been in 100,000 years, a new reconstruction of historical temperature data finds, and with today's level of fossil fuel emissions the planet is "locked into" eventually hitting its highest temperature mark in 2 million years.2015 was the warmest year since modern record-keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The record-breaking year continues a long-term warming trend — 15 of the 16 warmest years o..
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  • There Is No Good Way To Explain Donald Trump's Climate Change Tweet

    There Is No Good Way To Explain Donald Trump's Climate Change Tweet
    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. ― A number of fairly mendacious statements were made during Monday night’s first presidential debate. But arguably the most brazen involved Donald Trump’s views on climate change. The GOP nominee was called to task for claiming that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. In response, he completely denied ever saying that. Rarely are there moments when you can definitively state, with zero reservation, that a presidential candidate is lying. But this was o..
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  • Could ornamented skulls have helped dinosaurs get big?

    Could ornamented skulls have helped dinosaurs get big?
    During the age of the dinosaurs, that horned look was so in. Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Giganotosaurus were among the most humongous predatory beasts that ruled the prehistoric Earth, and they all had strange bony structures sticking out of their skulls. But these cranial ornaments likely weren't just the fashion statements of dinosaur kings, say paleontologists. They might also have something to do with why these fearsome predators came to be so huge.Theropod dinosaur lineages with horns, ..
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  • We Just Passed A Grim Carbon Dioxide Threshold

    We Just Passed A Grim Carbon Dioxide Threshold
    The world has hit a global warming milestone it may never recover from. Scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced in 2013 that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide reached a daily average above 400 parts per million for the first time in history. CO2 concentrations “haven’t been this high in millions of years,” said scientist Erika Podest at the time. “This milestone is a wake-up call.” But the situation has only gotten worse. Worldwide, 400 ppm, which indicates the r..
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  • Why scientists are so thrilled by the icy geysers on Europa

    Why scientists are so thrilled by the icy geysers on Europa
    Scientists may have just taken one tiny step forward in the hunt for alien life – and it may be in our own cosmic backyard. Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, is a strong candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. Under its frozen exterior, the moon has a vast subsurface ocean that might be conducive to life as we know it. And now scientists may have found an easier way to investigate Europa's habitability.Giant water plumes appear to be spewing from the southern polar region on Europa in new Hubble..
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  • Controversial 3-parent baby technique produces a boy

    Controversial 3-parent baby technique produces a boy
    The mother previously had four pregnancy losses and had given birth to two children, one who survived less than a year, another who lived only 6 years due to the syndrome. For religious reasons, the mother wanted to use a technique that would not require the destruction of fertilized eggs, which an approved treatment in the United Kingdom would require.Led by Dr. John Zhang, founder of the New Hope Fertility Center in New York City, her doctors left the US, where the technique has not been appro..
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