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Mapping the Weather
This program covers the weather in all its aspects: how it is measured, the efforts to forecast it, its economic and human effects. The immensely complex physics, chemistry, and mathematics scientists use to study the atmospheric system-from the sun,...(more details) |
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The Ocean Sink
Governments at all levels are slow to protect their own environments, wanting proof of damage before acting. The dancing cats of Minimata are the emblem of this syndrome-their nervous systems destroyed by mercury-laced fish. Industrial waste containi...(more details) |
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Treasures of Neptune: Klondike on the Ocean Floor
The discovery of valuable resources on the ocean floor created first wealth, then havoc. From individual pearl divers to vast industrial drilling rigs, the development of new technologies for bringing to the surface what was once locked beneath the w...(more details) |
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The Frontier of Biomedicine
The investigation of simple creatures from the sea has led to new understanding of some of the same life processes in the most complex of living organisms, humans. From studying the proteins related to Alzheimer's disease to extracting chemicals from...(more details) |
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The Healing Sea: Life Under Water
The sea gave birth to life, therefore the sea may contain the secrets of life-or at least some of them. Since the invention of means of delving beneath the waters, scientists have indeed found an immense diversity of life-forms, some still being cata...(more details) |
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