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from the inimitable rjs: The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception - Called a “surfactant” because it reduces the surface tension of water, the slippery, stable compound was eventually used in hundreds of products, including Gore-Tex and...

First four-month forecast issued; no bleaching seen in Northern Hemisphere through October NOAA announced in July a major advance in the ability to predict mass coral bleaching – providing the probability of bleaching up to four months into the future...

Press Release – NOAA As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across Hawaii, NOAA scientists confirm the same stressful conditions are expanding to the Caribbean and may last into the new year, prompting the declaration of the third...

My thanks to Tony Thomas for this entertaining piece, first published at Quadrant Online How scary is “ocean acidification”?  Very  scary. The previously scary “global warming” stopped 19 years ago, but do stay scared because all that CO2 since 199...

We begin with another outbreak, via the Los Angeles Times: Disneyland measles may have spread, Orange County officials warn A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland may have spread to others in Orange County, where health officials warned the public...