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March 24, 2009 12:11 PM
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Oceans Chief Lubchenco Stresses Scientific Integrity
In an interview yesterday with ScienceInsider and Nature, newly confirmed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco made little news but did reiterate her concern about maintaining high standards...
March 19, 2009 11:08 AM
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Debate: Did Copenhagen Organizers Exaggerate the Science?
Last week's Copenhagen Climate Congress billed itself as an update on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, because much of the data reviewed in that authoritative study is...
March 18, 2009 3:58 PM
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Emissions Cuts Harder ... and Experts Think Climate Tipping Points More Likely
Two new studies out this week make clear the gargantuan task of cutting greenhouse gases and the risks involved. Released today, the first bit of research asked the following question:...
March 12, 2009 11:49 AM
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Quick Hits From Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN—Overheard here as the climate conference wraps up: Yale University announces that Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the school's new Climate and...
March 12, 2009 3:44 AM
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Carbon Tax Proponents in Copenhagen and Washington Steadfast, Lonely
COPENHAGEN—The economic outlook may be daunting, and everyone in Copenhagen agrees on the need to cut CO2 emissions, but just how to stimulate investment in low-carbon technologies is a...
March 12, 2009 2:36 AM
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Economic Crisis Threatens Carbon Gains
COPENHAGEN—The climate conference here has shifted focus from the underlying—and increasingly upsetting—climate science picture to efforts to solve the problem by cutting world emissions of greenhouse gases. Yesterday in a...
March 11, 2009 6:41 AM
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Soil Carbon: An Unappreciated Threat Grows
COPENHAGEN—Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution had a sobering update in a session yesterday on the steadily worsening ability of the oceans and land to suck up carbon. Field...
March 10, 2009 12:41 PM
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Proposal: Make Every Earthling Pay Their Personal Carbon Debt (Sort of)
COPENHAGEN—At some point in the next year, nations planning to join climate talks are going to propose greenhouse gas caps. How will the international negotiators decide how much of the pollution-cutting...
March 10, 2009 9:46 AM
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Scientists Aim "Three Stage Rocket" Toward the Politicos
Note: A clarification has been added to this item. COPENHAGEN—Ten of the world's top universities have convened a conference here with the tacit support of the United Nations, hoping...
March 10, 2009 7:25 AM
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Danish Minister to Barack Obama: "We Need the United States to Listen to Science"
COPENHAGEN—Opening the 3-day climate conference here, Danish Minister for Energy and Climate Connie Hedegaard challenged the new U.S. president to strengthen the American targets for carbon emissions. Barack Obama’s...
March 10, 2009 4:49 AM
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Green-Tinted Denmark Hosts Climate Conference. But Is Denmark a Model?
COPENHAGEN—Today begins a 3-day conference on climate research meant to lay out the scientific case for the world's next major climate agreement. Diplomats hope to hammer out that deal...
March 6, 2009 2:44 PM
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Salmon Plan Under Scrutiny, Again
The most powerful person in the Pacific Northwest this afternoon isn’t Washington Governor Christine Gregoire or Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski. It’s U.S. District Judge James Redden, who hears legal arguments...
March 5, 2009 7:02 PM
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Yucca's Out Because My Boss Says So
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today defended the Administration's recent announcement to drop the idea of storing high-level nuclear waste inside a Nevada mountain without offering specifics about what might...
March 4, 2009 2:54 PM
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How Much Would Nanotox Testing Cost?
Nanotech insiders continue to spar over whether there should be widespread toxicity testing of nanomaterials. Not surprisingly, companies churning out products with nanomaterials in them tend to argue that existing...
March 4, 2009 2:14 PM
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OSTP Environment Deputy Named
Environmental scientist Shere Abbott has been named by the White House to be associate director of environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy—a position that requires...
March 4, 2009 11:29 AM
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Climate Activism Grows and Hansen's in Demand
Monday's protest at the Capitol Power Plant found climate modeler James Hansen yet again at the forefront of U.S. climate politics. Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
March 3, 2009 3:26 PM
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Obama Considers Reversing Bush Endangered Species Rule
It’s back to normal with endangered species. President Barack Obama this afternoon directed the departments of Interior and Commerce to evaluate a rule implemented late in the Bush Administration. The...
March 3, 2009 9:40 AM
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Nominations for Lubchenco, Holdren Held Up
The Washington Post has the scoop on why the Senate has yet to vote to confirm Jane Lubchenco for the administrator post at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...
March 2, 2009 8:18 AM
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Ocean Lobby: NOAA Budget on Course, Smooth Sailing
A month or two ago, the science community was fearing the dreaded continuing resolution for a number of science agencies—a flat budget for the rest of 2009 basically following the...
February 27, 2009 10:50 AM
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Obama and Yucca
President Barack Obama has come through on a campaign promise to oppose plans to build a storage vault for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Yesterday's budget request scales...
February 26, 2009 5:26 PM
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Cap and Trade and the Budget
Chris Mooney makes an interesting point about the $15 billion the 2010 budget assumes a cap-and-trade system to battle greenhouse emissions will deliver to the Treasury next year: So now,...
February 25, 2009 4:44 PM
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International Polar Year Wraps Up
Today from the $1.2 billion International Polar Year (IPY) project is a report on results from the last 2 years. From the press release: IPY has provided a critical boost...
February 25, 2009 4:11 PM
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Volcano Monitoring Criticized as "Eruption of Spending"
The Daily Beast covers Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's attack on the U.S. Geological Survey's monitoring of volcanoes. The speech was the Republican Party's response to the president's address to...
February 25, 2009 2:06 PM
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Obama vs. Bush: Yes, Climate Change Is Unhealthy
Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today about the impacts of climate change on health. You...
February 24, 2009 9:51 AM
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CO2 Monitoring Satellite Fails
A $280 million NASA satellite designed to monitor carbon dioxide emissions failed early this morning because of a problem with the Taurus XL rocket. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a...
February 23, 2009 6:16 PM
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Sustainable Ag Prof Nominated for #2 Spot at USDA
When Tom Vilsack was picked to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, some environmental and organic groups grumbled that the former Iowa governor and proponent of ethanol was too close...
February 21, 2009 8:09 AM
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New Mercury Treaty = New U.S. Internationalism on Environment?
Environmentalists are hoping so. They're hailing yesterday’s announcement by the United Nations Environment Programme that more than 140 countries have agreed to negotiate a treaty to reduce mercury pollution....
February 20, 2009 1:10 PM
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Dr. Chu Goes to Washington
"I feel like I've been dunked into the deep end of the pool," Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu confessed to reporters at a sit down hosted by energy...
February 18, 2009 3:40 PM
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Tale of Two Reports
So who do you think will be more effective at getting their recommendations listened to: 1) the Natural Resources Defense Council, out with a report listing ways in which the United States...
February 18, 2009 12:18 PM
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Court: GM Crop Trials Must Be Public in E.U.
For years, environmental groups have wanted to know the locations of field trials of genetically modified organisms, whereas companies and researchers have resisted revealing that information, because activists have occasionally...
February 17, 2009 3:22 PM
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D.C. Lead Controversy Grows
In fallout from a controversial research paper, the first of what may be many lawsuits was filed today against the Washington, D.C., Water and Sewer Authority. The issue revolves around...
February 13, 2009 2:26 PM
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Scientist, Heal Thyself
Whether working on new biofuels, catalysts, solar cells, batteries, or smart grids, scientists are seen as key players in bringing about an affordable renewable energy economy. But scientists and scientific...
February 12, 2009 3:14 PM
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Smooth Sailing for White House Science Office, Ocean Nominees
An uneventful hearing this morning for John Holdren, nominated to run the White House science and technology office and Jane Lubchenco, slated to be administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic...
February 11, 2009 3:33 PM
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Wanted: Suckers
There's too much carbon dioxide in the air. Why not just remove it manually? A handful of scientific teams at universities and companies are trying to build machines to...
February 11, 2009 2:51 PM
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House: Nano-Managing The Government
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Amendments Act of 2009, renewing a push to overhaul nanotechnology environmental, health, and safety (EHS) research. Among...
February 5, 2009 2:57 PM
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Europe Moves to Tighten Shark Protections
The European Commission today approved an action plan that would improve protections for sharks, skates, and rays. "It's an important accomplishment and a useful first step," says Ellen Pikitch, who directs...
February 5, 2009 10:38 AM
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It's Go Time for Holdren and Lubchenco
ScienceInsider has learned that the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hopes to hold a joint hearing next Thursday on the nominations of John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco for the respective positions as director...
February 4, 2009 2:04 PM
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IG: EPA Needs Plan for Climate Change Research
Note: This item has been corrected. It previously cited GAO as the source of the report. The Environmental Protection Agency needs an overall plan for its research on climate change,...
February 3, 2009 5:31 PM
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Commerce Nominee Is Friend of NOAA Research
Science advocates welcomed the nomination this afternoon of Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) to head the Department of Commerce, which houses both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National...
January 29, 2009 1:46 PM
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Budget Squeeze Has Cali Ocean Mappers Feeling Lost
California marine scientists have encountered some rough seas lately, following the state finance department's decision last month to freeze all funding derived from the sale of bonds. That decision...
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