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Ned Potter is the science correspondent for ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson." He has reported on such topics as space exploration, the human genome and climate change.
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Tropical Storm Bertha
It's the second named storm of the year, and already it's set a record. As Jeff Masters of the Wunderground weather site puts it, Bertha, at 25 degress west longitude, "is the farthest east a tropical storm has ever formed...
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July 3, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (173)
The Downward March of the Penguins
Dee Boersma, the biologist at the University of Washington whose warning about penguins yesterday made headlines, seemed genuinely surprised at the attention when I reached her yesterday. Her paper, in the journal BioScience, is HERE, and it's different from most...
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July 2, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (7)
