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The Mystery Rust of Kivalina, Alaska | The Artful Amoeba, Scientific American Blog Network

Published on: 09/27/2011
Region(s) of Study: Foreign Countries

Last month a mysterious orange film ('goo' in the media vernacular) washed up on the shores of a northwest Alaskan village called Kivalina. Experts suspected crustacean eggs; locals were unnerved. In retrospect, reports that the substance 'dried into a powder' should have been suspicious, as should reports that the orange stuff also appeared on the water in rain buckets. Either the crustaceans really got around, or all was not as it seemed.

via The Mystery Rust of Kivalina, Alaska | The Artful Amoeba, Scientific American Blog Network.

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