[NEWS] Five science links: HIV/AIDS in Florida, Maine rockweed, Wood Buffalo, Europa, SN 2001ig

[rfmcdonald]

Jon Cohen at Science Magazine describes the ever-worsening HIV/AIDS epidemic in Florida, with governmental inaction made worse by the diversity of the epidemic's pathways.

Maine coastal landowners are taking Nova Scotia business Acadian Seaplants to court over its harvesting of rockweed, and the legal fight centres over whether rockweed is an animal or a plant by state law. The National Post reports.

Wood Buffalo National Park, in northern Alberta, is undergoing serious degradation. Are the tar sands to blame? The National Post reports.

In some polar areas of Europa, sheltered from the radiation of Jupiter by ice, signs of life might be detectable mere centimetres below the surface. VICE's Motherboard reports.

Universe Today reports on the discovery of a star in galaxy NGC 7424, partner to supernova SN 2001ig, that survived its partner's explosion.

Comments

[dewline]

1. Saskatchewan and Florida...different roads to the same bad situation?

3. Tarsands? I'd say "yes". Perhaps too reflexively...but, no.