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…used on their own, spell these out: “Massachusetts is on the Atlantic Ocean.” When there’s a city or party affiliation, abbreviate: “Cambridge, Mass., is a hip place”; “D-Mass.” There are…
…used on their own, spell these out: “Massachusetts is on the Atlantic Ocean.” When there’s a city or party affiliation, abbreviate: “Cambridge, Mass., is a hip place”; “D-Mass.” There are…
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…of historical and recent oceanographic data, a 2010 study published in Nature magazine, “Global phytoplankton Decline Over the Past Century,” calculates that the change in the level of phytoplankton activity…
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…the Bureau of Ocean Energy on the level of oil and gas industry activity on leased land. The Bureau of Land Management oversees all leases of federal land to private…
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…with respect to India but there was a “relative lack of any marked shifts in Indian strategists’ accounts of China.” Chinese analysts primarily view India as an ocean power focused…
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…ocean level rise in the Northeastern United States. The researchers, based at the U.S. Geological Survey’s St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, analyzed historical tide-gauge records and projected out…
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…While scientists increasingly link atmospheric variability to the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean, droughts remain the product of multiple — and globally interconnected — variables. Since 1998 Congress has…
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…student outcomes.” “An Ocean of Unknowns: Risks and Opportunities in Using Student Achievement Data to Evaluate PreK-3rd Grade Teachers” Bornfreuend, Laura. Education Policy Program, New America Foundation. May 15,…
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…Chronic Disease,” PNAS, April 9, 2012. Hönisch Bärbel, et al., “The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification,” Science, March 2, 2012, Vol. 335, No. 6072, 1058-1063. Note: Social media paper due…
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…is “too short to determine whether this is a long-term trend.” Other contributors to rising ocean levels include the expansion of seawater due to warming seas and the decline of…
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…into the ocean, concern is understandable. A 2012 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Evaluation of Radiation Doses and Associated Risk from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident to…
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