A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests.
Research into the "developmental origins of adult disease" suggests that a mom's healthy living may help her child avoid problems such as cancer, heart disease, depression and diabetes not just in childhood, but 50 years from now.
Shortcomings in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's program mean that consumers, who at times pay twice as much for organic products, are not always getting what they expect: foods without pesticides and other chemicals, produced in a way that is gentle to the environment.
New animal studies link the chemical bisphenol A, which leaches from such polycarbonate plastics and food can linings, with heart arrhythmias in females and permanent damage to a gene important for reproduction. The results suggest that even adult exposures may cause harm.
The Obama administration has decided to keep secret the locations of nearly four dozen coal ash storage sites that pose a threat to people living nearby.
The Obama administration promised tougher oversight of strip mining in Appalachia yesterday and will require case-by-case scrutiny of mining companies' requests to fill streams with rock blasted off mountains
(Michigan State University) The oceans teem with microscopic bacteria that produce much of Earth's oxygen as they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ages-old evolutionary arms race. A Michigan State University researcher will probe that ancient dynamic against the backdrop of environmental and climate change, and the pivotal role played by aquatic bacteria in maintaining the Earth's biological balance.
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Intelligent countryside management could improve the survival chances of animal and plant species threatened by climate change. The creation of small heat-shielded habitats and better links between habitats would counteract a moderate temperature increase, and give threatened species more time to adapt better and/or to migrate to cooler regions. This is the conclusion drawn by scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research from a British study on saving the Large Blue butterfly.
(American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters"; "Understanding fault movement during Wenchuan earthquake"; "First direct measurement of lunar backscatter from solar wind"; "Reducing uncertainty in estimates of global sea level rise"; "Boost in freshwater content of Arctic Ocean "; "Data gaps in records hinder detection of climate trends"; "Glaciers cause seismic activity in Iceland"; and more.
BAGUA, Peru, Jul 3 (IPS/IFEJ) - "Now the fish are going to disappear," said
Luis Umpunchi, an AwajĂşn Indian, one of about 20 people gathered
around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the
northern Peruvian province of Amazonas.
KAMPALA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Africa must embrace agricultural biotechnology or
risk being excluded from a major technological revolution that
has had increased food production in the Europe, North America
and Asia.
COLOMBO, Jul 3 (IPS) - Sri Lankan health authorities have had to combat an
upsurge in cases of the lethal Dengue flu in the island nation
this year. They have used mass man-power, public awareness
campaigns and even threatened incarceration to stem the spread of
the killer disease that has touched epidemic levels in the past
six months. But it won’t be easy to stop the disease from
spreading.
The U.S., European Union and 12 of the world's largest nations plan to embrace "an aspirational goal" of reducing emissions of global-warming gases by 50% by 2050, according to a draft declaration by world leaders set for release next week in Italy.
Tasmanian industrial foresters and environmentalists have been fighting over the issue of clearcutting the island’s forests for decades. The battle is over nothing less than the future of Tasmania, and an important resource for mitigating climate change.
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