Two science stories were on top of the news this morning. Ornithologists are now ready to confirm a sighting of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas. It was thought to be extinct. The news came out earlier this week. Today the searchers have published a paper in Science Magazine Online, which makes it official: Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America. Science is making the whole article available. There's a detailed description (and J. J.'s painting) on the Audubon site. (In fact, the whole of Audubon's Birds of America is there. Wow.) Three Rivers Birding Club also has a nice page with a picture, description, and link to the only recording of the ivory-billed's call.
The other story was one from NASA scientists about ocean temperatures and the implications for world climate. Summary of the story is available as a news release, Earth's Energy Out of Balance. Full text of the formal paper, Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications is available as a PDF. Excuse us if we don't expand this paragraph with lots of links to scientific news about climate change and global warming. It's too depressing.
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