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    Scientists sound red tide warning in New England
    The New England shellfish industry faces the threat of widespread red tide outbreaks this spring and summer that could force hundreds of miles of clam flats to be closed and lead to clam shortages.
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    Researchers, fishermen tag monkfish; probe north/south mixing rates
    It takes a bit of skill to do surgery on a monkfish, especially at sea in the bitter cold.

    But several researchers have mastered the art, making delicate incisions in the tail of each fish to surgically implant bullet-shaped data storage tags. They did it 150 times in 2009 aboard commercial fishing vessels and, as the new year opened, were prepping to head out to sea to do it again.

    The teams soon fell into a rhythm. Industry partners handled the net, providing researchers with fish as needed, and researchers did the tag implantations.
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    Experts Try to Clear Confusion about Extreme Weather and Climate Change
    Some proponents of climate science are on a public relations drive to restore public confidence in the consensus that Earth is heating up, after critics seized on blizzards in the American Northeast, claiming they were evidence of global cooling.
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    Lubchenco on snowstorms: ‘Weather is not climate’
    A top Obama administration scientist on Monday struck back at climate skeptics who claim that record snowstorms this winter have undercut evidence of global warming.
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    Carbon Emissions Increasing Acidity of Ocean, Threatening Marine Life
    Industrial nations that attended the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this past December have until the end of this month to submit their plans for reducing carbon emissions to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-although the UNFCCC head, Yvo de Boer, stated in a webcast on January 20 that the targets are not legally binding and the deadline is flexible.
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