January 22, 2010
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No. It doesn’t mean the end is near 😉 University of Utah seismic station. Earthquake swarm in park tops 1,000. Billings Gazette. Note added 1-24. As expected, the swarm has dropped off a lot.
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Meet the scientists risking their lives to find Earth’s rarest species This is an interesting article about cryptozoology, the “study of hidden animals”. One of the scientists mentioned is Dr. Jeff Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology and my old college advisor at Idaho State University in Pocatello, who spends part of his time…
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Michael Brune is a big foe of industrial polluters- He has a hard job ahead after yesterday’s Supreme Court decision giving corporations more political power than they have had in a hundred years. New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style to the job. “The new leader of the US’s largest environmental group will come to…
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Four recent outbreaks of disease in the west There are four disease outbreaks among bighorn sheep herds in the news this winter, two in Montana, one in Nevada, and one in Washington State. This is the time of year when bighorn sheep are concentrated so diseases are more easily transmitted. There has been no mention…