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Barbara Moran

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 30, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Barbara Moran

    UMass biologists discover what may be the world's loudest birds (opens the original)

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    Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered what may be the world’s loudest birds. There are now three contenders for the Noisiest Bird Award, all living in Brazil. But exactly why these birds are so loud remains a mystery.

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Barbara Moran

    Scientists, fishermen want feds to keep funding deep-ocean observation system (opens the original)

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    New England scientists and fishermen are urging the Trump administration to continue funding the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a network of hundreds of buoys and gliders that collect data from remote parts of the ocean. The National Science Foundation began quietly dismantling the deep-ocean observation system last summer, until the effort was blocked by the U.S. Senate

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Barbara Moran

    Narrowing Endangered Species Act will likely drive right whales to extinction, experts warn (opens the original)

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    Environmental advocates say a Trump administration proposal to narrow the scope of the Endangered Species Act could drive the world's remaining North Atlantic right whales to extinction, with the animals likely reaching the point of no return within a decade. "It doesn't take much to push a species like this right over the brink," said Mark Baumgartner, a marine ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Endangered Species Act prohibits the “take” of protected animals, defined br

  4. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Barbara Moran

    A mixtape for oysters: Researchers test if sounds of home can help restore reefs (opens the original)

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    Aran Mooney crouched on the bottom of a small boat, cradling a foot-long cylinder made of tough plastic mesh, and covered in stringy green algae. The cylinder contained an underwater recording device, and it had been sitting at the bottom of Tisbury Great Pond on Martha’s Vineyard for a month. “Fingers crossed everything’s working,” said Mooney, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. “Now we're going to go back to the lab and listen and see what this area sounds like.” M

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