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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Winter forecast: Sustained blizzard of climate newsAt least in our area of the country, consumers are already being assaulted — well before Halloween — with Christmas music, decorations and holiday-themed goods. Reporters are smack in the throes of their own early seasonal blitz: News items carrying a climate or global-warming theme. And I don’t expect the crush of climate news and seminars to diminish until around Christmas. That’s when the next United Nations COP — or Conference of the Parties — will end this year’s pivotal round of negotiations in Copenhagen aimed at producing a new climate treaty.Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Found in: Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy and Science & Society
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The average retail cost of U.S. coal-fired electricity was 9 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2007 (the most recent year for which data are available). But there are health and environmental costs of that power that consumers don’t pay, at least as part of their electric bill. According to a new report, accounting for those costs would double the true cost of shooting some electrons through the nation's power grid.Published: Monday, October 19th, 2009Found in: Agriculture, Biomedicine and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Update: U.S. swine infected with swine fluWell, it's official. Over the weekend, Agriculture Department scientists found evidence that at least one pig exhibited at this year's Minnesota state fair was infected with the pandemic H1N1 strain of swine flu.Published: Monday, October 19th, 2009Found in: Agriculture and Science & Society
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To date, federal monitoring has yet to turn up any U.S. pigs infected with the killer swine flu strain known as H1N1. But Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday that his agency’s veterinary labs would be reexamining whether any of the apparently healthy pigs exhibited last August 16 to Sept. 1 at the Minnesota state fair might have been infected with the virus. Why? “An outbreak of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza occurred in a group of children housed in a dormitory at the fair at the same time samples were collected from the pigs,” USDA notesPublished: Saturday, October 17th, 2009Found in: Agriculture, Biomedicine and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Carbon emissions: Trend improves, but ...Sometimes what’s bad for the economy can be good for the planet. Or so argued Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute, yesterday. This environmental trend spotter pointed to several developments that may have escaped our attention as the global economy alternately sputtered and entered periods of freefall throughout the past 18 months. Trend one: U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, have taken a tumble.Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2009Found in: Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy and Science & Society
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Some were pets whose bodies and appetites apparently got too big for their owners to support. Most are probably descendants of released pets. Today, thousands of really big non-native snakes — we’re talking boa constrictors, anacondas and pythons — slither wild in southern Florida. And there’s nothing holding them in the Sunshine State. Which is why a report that was released today contends they pose moderate to high ecological threats to states on three U.S. coasts. Indeed, the homelands of these snakes share climatic features with large portions of the United States — territory currently inhabited by some 120 million Americans. Based on comparisons of the temperatures, rainfall and land cover found in the snakes’ native range, it’s possible that these slithering behemoths could stake claims to territory as far north as coastal Delaware and Oregon.Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Found in: Biology, Climate Change and Environment -
Scientists have traced the reappearance of cotton pests in west-central Texas to a tropical storm.Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Found in: Agriculture, Earth, Ecology, Environment and Planetary Science -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10 / Science & the Public : BPA in the womb shows link to kids’ behaviorSubtle gender-linked effects seen in youngsters mirror impacts witnessed earlier in rodents. (p. 12)Published: November 7th, 2009; Vol.176 #10Found in: Behavior, Environment and Science & Society
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A Japanese study finds that excreted Tamiflu ends up in river water, raising concerns that birds hosting a flu virus will develop drug-resistant strains.Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Found in: Biomedicine, Environment and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Schools need to test water, report resultsSurvey of EPA database turn up widespread problems, which may be only the tip of the iceberg.Published: Friday, September 25th, 2009Found in: Environment and Science & Society
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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : Protected whales found in Japan’s supermarketsToothless Asian whales find themselves being protected by fairly toothless regulations.Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2009Found in: Biology, Environment, Genes & Cells and Science & Society -
Study tracks European eels for the first 1,300 kilometers of their migration.Published: Thursday, September 24th, 2009Found in: Biology, Ecology and Life -
New study may help scientists improve control of invasive fire antsPublished: Friday, September 18th, 2009Found in: Ecology, Life, Molecules and Science & Society -
Scientists make a case for texting and using hand-free technologies with those cell phones to which society has become addicted.Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Found in: Body & Brain, Environment, Science & Society and Technology
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Yellow crazy ants can get so annoying that birds don’t eat their normal fruits, a new study finds. (p. 13)Published: October 10th, 2009; Vol.176 #8Found in: Botany, Ecology, Environment, Life and Zoology
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