Saturday - November 23, 2024
Federal Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for Sunday November 17, 2024 ( 2 items )  

NOAA Advances Efforts to Identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: * * * Identifying areas that may be suitable for sustainable aquaculture, strengthening American food security and coastal economies. * * * Today, NOAA Fisheries released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and the Gulf  more

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: How Microbes Create the Most Toxic Form of Mercury
MENLO PARK, California, Nov. 16 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * SLAC's SSRL helps pin down key players in the microbial production of methylmercury, a poison that can accumulate in fish. * * * By Chris Patrick Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury - a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting neurological damage to a developing fetu  more