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Murky Relationships Mark Scientific Efforts to Assess Gulf Spill’s Impacts

August 18, 2010July 2, 2017 Laura PetersenNews

Lawmakers have criticized BP PLC for attempting to “muzzle” scientists researching the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with confidentiality agreements and blocking the “open exchange of scientific data and analysis.” […]

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Saving our biodiversity

April 4, 2008July 2, 2017 Laura PetersenNews

Local nonprofit fights to save vanishing rainforest. With only seven percent of the Andean mountain tropical forests left, saving the rainforest is a critical and seemingly futile mission. “It’s not […]

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Local rocket science goes for the moon

August 3, 2007July 2, 2017 Laura PetersenNews

Watering one’s garden with a liquid oxygen nozzle may seem a little strange. A little… unreasonable. Such oddities make perfect sense to engineer Paul T. Breed, who is safely testing […]

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I’m not abused, I’m hardcore

July 6, 2007July 2, 2017 Laura PetersenNews

I’m crying. Here I was ready to write a column about how pumped I was to do my first mini-triathlon in Solana Beach, and how you, the reader should too. […]

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