Recently in the Environment/Climate Category
February 2, 2012 5:08 PM
|
Aviation Bill Gives Flight to Research, Too
After years of controversy and more than 20 extensions of the current law, Congress is poised to pass a 4-year reauthorization of programs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)....
January 25, 2012 12:42 PM
|
White House Gives Up on NOAA Science Chief Nomination
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has claimed another casualty. The White House yesterday formally withdrew its nomination of geochemist Scott Doney to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic...
January 17, 2012 11:42 AM
|
Education Advocates Enter the Climate Tempest
Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well-organized interest groups? A growing number of education advocates believe so, and...
January 13, 2012 5:42 PM
|
Rough Sailing for Plan to Move NOAA?
The Obama Administration's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Commerce Department to the Interior Department is drawing mixed reactions from former senior staff,...
January 5, 2012 5:32 PM
|
Report Challenges Ambitious Plan for U.S. Climate Research
A report from the National Research Council (NRC) released today points out that a draft federal plan to coordinate research into how to respond to climate change is unlikely...
December 16, 2011 6:10 PM
|
EPA Ordered to Do Outside Reviews of Toxicology Database
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) crafts a regulatory standard—how much arsenic is safe in drinking water, for example—its staff members rely on scientific assessments of the chemical's toxicity....
December 16, 2011 3:12 PM
|
U.K. Police Seize Computers in Climate E-mails Investigation, U.S. Joins In
Blasted by media and scientists alike for their slow investigation into the hacker who stole a trove of e-mails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in...
December 14, 2011 2:03 PM
|
Ralph Hall Speaks Out on Climate Change
The chair of the House of Representatives science committee doesn't think much of the investigations exonerating the scientists involved in the 2009 Climategate e-mail scandal. He also believes that...
November 28, 2011 3:13 PM
|
French Ban on Genetically Modified Corn Loses Another Round
PARIS—The French government has lost the latest round in its battle to maintain a ban on growing genetically-modified (GM) corn in France, but the new ruling is not the...
November 23, 2011 12:20 PM
|
Son of Climategate: 5000 New UEA E-mails Released, Jones Responds
LONDON—There's nothing really new in a second massive cache of e-mails that hackers have released from the University of East Anglia's (UEA's) Climate Research Unit, U.K. scientists at the...
November 2, 2011 3:46 PM
|
U.K. Quakes Likely Caused by Fracking
Two small earthquakes that shook the Lancashire coast of northwest England and the nearby city of Blackpool earlier this year were probably caused by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—a shale...
October 26, 2011 5:37 PM
|
UPDATE: House Approves Arizona Land Swap
The House of Representatives has approved the Arizona land swap on a primarily partisan vote of 235-186. Eight Republicans voted against the bill, and seven Democrats voted for it....
October 26, 2011 3:11 PM
|
Breaking News: Archaeology Groups Oppose Proposed Arizona Land Swap
Archaeology groups are lining up against a proposal, currently being debated on the floor of the House of Representatives, to give a major copper mining company a large chunk...
October 23, 2011 7:01 PM
|
Public Awareness of Geoengineering Science Increasing
Geoengineering may not be a household name just yet, but its celebrity status seems to be on the rise. A new survey finds that public awareness of strategies aimed...
October 4, 2011 5:26 PM
|
New Report Urges U.S. to Fund Research on Geoengineering
A group of scientists and policy specialists say it's time to bring geoengineering research into the limelight. A new report, published by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center, argues that...
October 4, 2011 3:46 PM
|
Panel Doubts U.S. Biofuels Goals Will Be Reached
The United States is unlikely to produce enough biofuel by 2022 to meet some congressionally mandated targets, according to an analysis released today by a National Research Council (NRC)...
September 22, 2011 4:29 PM
|
House Science Panel to Investigate NOAA Climate Service
A political feud over a "shadow" climate science service is heating up again. Following months of partisan sparring, Representative Ralph Hall (R-TX), announced yesterday that the House of Representatives...
September 22, 2011 2:26 PM
|
Atlas Can't Shrug Scientists; Publisher Issues Apology and Promises Corrections
The new The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World that had glaciologists in a rage for incorrectly showing Greenland as having lost 15% of its ice since 1999 is...
September 19, 2011 12:00 PM
|
UPDATED: Atlas Shrugged? 'Outraged' Glaciologists Say Mappers Misrepresented Greenland Ice Melt
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM—So much for claims that climate scientists deliberately misrepresent their data: glaciologists are broadly and loudly panning the latest version of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the...
September 2, 2011 5:43 PM
|
Journal Editor Resigns Over Contrarian Climate Paper
The editor-in-chief of the journal Remote Sensing has resigned over the publication of a paper questioning the reliability of climate models. Wolfgang Wagner of Vienna University of Technology concluded...
September 2, 2011 5:04 PM
|
White House Delays Any Change to Smog Standard
The Obama Administration announced today that it will not lower air pollution limits this year for smog-causing ozone -- a move welcomed by industry but decried by public health...
September 1, 2011 3:38 PM
|
Iceland Directs Avalanche Funds Into Volcano Risk Studies
Iceland's natural hazards experts can now use part of a special avalanche risk assessment fund to study the dangers posed by the country's many volcanoes, which seem to be...
August 29, 2011 12:54 PM
|
Icebreaker Deal to Keep Antarctic Research Afloat
Antarctic researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) may need to throw on another blanket at night to ward off the chill. But Thursday's agreement to lease...
August 25, 2011 5:52 PM
|
NSF Leases Russian Icebreaker for Antarctic Resupply
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has resolved a problem that threatened research in the Antarctic this winter by hiring a Russian icebreaker to clear a path through McMurdo Sound....
August 25, 2011 2:42 PM
|
University Turns Over Some of Climate Scientist's Documents
Months after a request from a Virginia politician and a conservative think tank, the University of Virginia (UVA) has turned over documents related to embattled scientist Michael Mann's research...
August 19, 2011 6:25 PM
|
EPA Science Advisory Board Urges Action on Nitrogen Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies should take action to cut the amount of nitrogen pollution by 25% over the next 1 to 2 decades, according to EPA's external scientific advisors.
August 19, 2011 11:58 AM
|
Geologists Ship Out, Hoping to Claim Piece of Arctic for Canada
With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous...
August 10, 2011 6:42 PM
|
Senator Inhofe Has Questions About Polar Bear Researcher Charles Monnett
"Polarbeargate," the federal investigation into suspended wildlife biologist Charles Monnett over undisclosed allegations, took further strange turns yesterday. First, Monnett was interviewed a second time by investigators from the U.S....
August 10, 2011 4:11 PM
|
Most Himalayan Glaciers Retreating; 21% Stable or Expanding, Survey Finds
NEW DELHI—A new study by the Indian Space Research Organization and the Geological Survey of India in Kolkata reports that although 21% of India's Himalayan glaciers are showing no increase...
August 3, 2011 4:48 PM
|
U.S. Judge Rejects Latest Salmon Recovery Plan
For the third time in a decade, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, has rejected as inadequate the U.S. government's plan for making hydroelectric dams safer for endangered salmon...
July 29, 2011 5:16 PM
|
Suspended Polar Bear Researcher Defended by Advocates
Veteran wildlife researcher Charles Monnett, whose 2006 paper suggesting that polar bears may be drowning due to melting sea ice was featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, has...
July 28, 2011 2:08 PM
|
House Strikes Proposed Ban on Endangered Species Listings
The House of Representatives voted down yesterday legislation which, critics say, would have effectively hamstrung endangered species protection in the United States. The measure, part of a larger appropriations...
July 20, 2011 5:46 PM
|
Review of BBC Science Coverage Finds Room for Improvement
More than a year after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Trust announced it would conduct a major evaluation of the BBC's science coverage, the resulting review has concluded that accuracy...
July 7, 2011 2:40 PM
|
Yellowstone River Spill Not Good for Wildlife, But Could Be Worse
The good news about the oil pipe that ruptured outside Laurel, Montana, last Friday and spilled up to 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River is that...
July 1, 2011 5:19 PM
|
U.S. National Parks' Cultural and Natural Resources Threatened
Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade-long study released earlier this week by the National...
June 29, 2011 5:58 PM
|
Los Alamos Fire: Why Nuclear Waste Is Probably Safe
A key barrier between the New Mexico wildfire that started several days ago and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a road which has been cleared of trees and debris,...
June 28, 2011 5:10 PM
|
Fire Outside Los Alamos Lab Poses 'Low' Risk to Nuclear Waste: Fire Chief
The Albuquerque Journal reports on a press conference an hour ago in which authorities fighting the raging blaze downplayed the risk of the fire striking a huge cache of...
June 28, 2011 4:46 PM
|
Candidate Pawlenty on Climate Change: 'The Science Is Bad'
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has had a well-documented change of heart on climate change science. Today on the Fox and Friends morning show, the former Minnesota governor reiterated...
June 24, 2011 4:19 PM
|
House Science Panel Spars With Lubchenco Over Climate Service
The science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives this week criticized steps that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has taken to create a National Climate Service,...
June 23, 2011 4:47 PM
|
U.S. Faces New Suits on Climate From Left and Right
Lawyers at NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are girding to defend the government against new lawsuits on climate change, coming from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum....
Recent Articles
Categories
- Anthropology (29)
- Asia (208)
- Astronomy (24)
- Biomedicine (650)
- Botany (2)
- Budget (389)
- Defense (89)
- Earth Science (12)
- Ecology (164)
- Education (229)
- Energy (186)
- Environment/Climate (421)
- Europe (400)
- Evolution (5)
- Genetics (4)
- Medicine (14)
- Physical Science (83)
- Physics (80)
- Science Community (83)
- Space (128)
- Swine Flu (125)
- Technology (71)
- Top Story (112)
- White House (140)
Questions or feedback on this page?
Let us know.
News | Science Journals | Careers | Blogs and Communities | Multimedia | Collections | Help | Site Map | RSS
Subscribe | Feedback | Privacy Policy | About Us | Advertise With Us | Contact Us
© 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All Rights Reserved.
AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, OARE, eIFL, PatientInform, CrossRef, and COUNTER.