The mysterious orange goo that washed ashore at the northern Alaska village of Kivalina has made headlines around the world, seeming to vaguely portend some new sign of climate disaster or industrial mayhem.
Not so, though. Scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at Auke Bay in Juneau took samples of the weird orange material that was found floating in the harbor in Kivalina, 625 miles northwest of Anchorage -- and also on beaches, in rainwater and in a river 150 miles away. They concluded it was no man-made nightmare at all.
Rather, it's a large mass of microscopic eggs, researchers concluded, quieting the international alarm.
Well that's gotta be reassuring for the locals. Eggs from an as yet unidentified creature. Hhhhmmm. To read the rest of the article, click here.