Alaska Science Forum: A Voyage to St. Matthew Island
Fifty-five summers ago, when Dave Klein first stepped on St. Matthew Island, driftwood on the beaches held no plastic bottles and hundreds of reindeer roamed the tundra hills.
30 Years and Billions of Dollars to Clean up Nigerian Oil Spills
ABUJA, NIGERIA-The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a United Nations report released today.
Memory Improves for Older Adults Using Computerized Brain Fitness Program
UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills.
Big Bear Can Frack on North Slope With or Without Parnell's Tax Cuts
The race is on. To avoid looking like a fool, Parnell needs his tax cuts hammered into law before Great Bear’s anticipated production enters the pipeline. If he does, he will look like the rooster that made the sunrise; if he fails he will look like the Emperor with no clothes.