ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Los Angeles’ vulnerability to future sea level rise projected Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:48 sea level rise of as much as two feet due by 2050 due to AM PST A new study looks at colonies of social wasps and explores the acceptance …
New GMO Studies Demonstrate ‘Substantial Non-Equivalence’
========================================================gm maize and counterparts. This makes a mockery of the regulatory principle of ‘Substantial Equivalence’The concept of ‘Substantial Equivalence’ was first introduced in 1993 by theOrganisation for US Food and Drug Administration, theCanadian Food Inspection Agency and Japan’s Ministry of egypt showed substantial non-equivalence and toxicity for GM cornIn April …
Announcing Science in Society #61 – Spring 2014 Reclaiming Science for the Public Good
When scientists produced a report warning that the current level of climate change, the Bush administration did not simply ignore their findings. Instead, they changed the report to make it appear that the scientists’ carbon emissions ([1] Scientific Integrity in Washington, SiS 49, [2]). That was not just a bit of political spin; …
China’s Plan to Clean Up Air in Cities Will Doom the Climate, Scientists Say
Exclusively on InsideClimate News, This Year’s Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Harper Govt Makes Moves to Silence Canada’s Leading Environmental Groups In both the United States and Canada, pipelines and President Obama has encouraged tar sands policies. Read more. China’s Plan to Clean Up Air …
Most Americans Support Action on Global Warming
Today we are releasing the third report from our latest national survey. In Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies, November 2013, we report that most Americans support national action on global warming: Most Americans (83%) say the U.S. should make an effort to reduce global warming, even if it …
Exclusive report – Boeing reveals “the biggest breakthrough in biofuels ever”
Oil companies watch out. Biofuels are on the verge of a breakthrough that will transform the oil market. Not only that: it will also green the planet. In an exclusive interview with CleanTechnica.com and Energy Post, Darrin L. Morgan, Director Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Environmental Strategy at Boeing, reveals that …
California Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billion Tunnel
California’s worsening drought is raising the stakes for a $15 billion plan endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown to build two 30-mile (48-kilometer) water tunnels under an ecologically sensitive river delta east of San Francisco Bay. The tunnels, each as wide as a two-lane interstate highway, would ship water more reliably …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Sea level variations escalating along eastern Gulf of Mexico coast
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Sea level variations escalating along eastern Gulf of Mexico coast Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:55 PM PST Around the globe, sea levels typically rise a little in summer and fall again in winter. Now, a new study shows that, from the Florida Keys to …
NASA, JAXA Prepare Rain and Snow Satellite for Launch
NASA, JAXA Prepare Rain and Snow Satellite for Launch 01/27/2014 You are subscribed to Earth News for NASA. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. NASA, JAXA Prepare Rain and Snow Satellite for Launch 01/27/2014 11:00 AM EST The world enters a new era of global …
NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere
NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere 01/22/2014 You are subscribed to Earth News for NASA. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere 01/17/2014 11:00 AM EST NASA’s uncrewed …