Ellen Werner News Today

Forums to educate voters about ballot questionsThe League of Women Voters is hosting educational forums on the ballot questions set to come before voters in the Nov. 8 general election. All forums will be held on Zoom.■Oct. 12, 4 p.m. — The League of...

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Pr...