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| | Buzz Aldrin, the second man to ever set foot on the moon, stepped outside of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, took a look around and muttered the phrase "A Magnificent Desolation." He might have said the same thing had he been on his first visit to the Svalbard Archipelago. View of Spitsbergen from the pack ice-...
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| | The Caspian Tern colony, the one across the bay from the Port Townsend waterfront, was just wiped out by avian flu. Nearly. At the start of the summer, we estimated the colony at about 1,800 adults. So far, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) - in five trips to the island, roughly once...
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| | As a small child I have a vivid memory of a picture in a Wonder Book that showed cormorants being used by Chinese fishermen. Each bird having a ring round its neck that prevented it eating the fish it caught. Recently my eldest son Noah brought to my attention a 1979 paper by Pamela Egremont...
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| yes I do. That draft was created just after I joined twitter, and in the details I had written that I had just passed 400 tweets. I'm now closing in on 13,000. I am, however, in the process of scaling back my twitter and Facebook usage - I identified last week that as I reduce...