February 2, 2012 5:08 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Barbara Casassus
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lucas Laursen
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
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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
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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
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Robert Coontz
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
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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
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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
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Virginia Morell
"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
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Pallava Bagla
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...
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...
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...
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Daniel Strain
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...
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...
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...
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Virginia Morell
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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Natalie Villacorta
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,...
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....