Great Lakes ice cover down 71% since 1973

Ice cover on North America's Great Lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, and Erie--has declined 71% since 1973, says a new study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Read More....

Mapping Ancient Civilization

For a quarter of a century, two archaeologists and their team slogged through wild tropical vegetation to investigate and map the remains of one of the largest Maya cities, in Central America. Slow, sweaty hacking with machetes seemed to be the only way to discover the breadth of an ancient urban landscape now hidden beneath a dense forest canopy.
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Informational Meeting Tonight

An informational meeting will be presented Thursday, March 22, 2012 at the Science Resources Center, 10001 Route 60, Fredonia, NY at 7:00 PM.  For directions or additional information please call Helen Domske, Sea Grant Resource Agent at (716) 645-3610 or Garry Dole, Science Resources Coordinator, Erie 2 BOCES  at (716) 679-3419 or 800-344-9611 ext. 2598 (from 716 area code).

What is a Coral?

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Referendum Says No to Belize Offshore Oil Exploration

Yesterday was a busy day for the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage 
as they held the People’s Referendum, as a way to give a voice to many 
who were silenced when signatures were rejected from a petition to host a
 national referendum. People came out by the numbers to vote and the 
results were released today at a press conference in the front yard of 
the OCEANA Belize office. Ninety six percent of the twenty nine thousand
 two hundred and thirty five voters came out, voted no to offshore oil 
drilling while the remaining four percent voted yes.

Read more at Belize Marine Trec