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June 2, 2011 3:35 PM
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Journal Retracts Disputed Network Analysis Paper on Climate
On 15 May, USA Today reported that a controversial 2008 study in the journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) was going to be retracted because parts of the...
May 13, 2011 5:53 PM
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International Climate Panel Announces Reforms on Conflicts, Errors
Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting this week in Abu Dhabi for their annual confab, have added new procedures for dealing with errors, conflicts of interest,...
May 10, 2011 11:05 AM
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Experts Sifts 'Tens of Thousands of Photos' in Post-Catastrophe Tornado Analysis
Doppler radar helped quantify the initial assessment of the impact of the historic outbreak of 305 tornadoes in the last week of April from Texas to New York that killed...
May 5, 2011 5:37 PM
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Science Is Lacking in California Bay Delta Conservation Plan
A draft plan to restore endangered habitat and fish species in the California Bay Delta east of San Francisco is incomplete and contains major scientific gaps, according to a...
April 28, 2011 1:25 PM
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New U.K. Plant Science Lab Receives the Royal Treatment
Most people think the major royal event of the week in England is a small wedding tomorrow, but plant biologists might disagree. Yesterday, the Queen, resplendent in a blue...
April 25, 2011 3:32 PM
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Details Revealed on BP's Funds for Continued Oil Spill Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just over a year since oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown Macondo well, there is now a plan for distributing the biggest pot...
April 22, 2011 11:17 AM
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A Map of Fukushima's Radiation Risks
A new map from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shows the long-term radiation risks to people living near Japan's ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. DOE-sponsored aerial surveys began...
April 20, 2011 5:19 PM
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A Roadmap for Stalking Extremophiles
From the interior of desert rocks to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, life has adapted to extraordinary environments. And yet many such species are threatened by...
April 18, 2011 5:11 PM
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Fukushima Plan: Achieving Cold Shutdown Could Take 6 Months
Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. have outlined their plans for ending the saga of the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daichi power plant. In the first 3 to...
April 13, 2011 9:21 PM
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Budget Cuts Mean '18-Month Gap' in Crucial Weather Data, Says Ocean Agency
If passed into law, the federal budget for 2011 that lawmakers will vote on this week will harm key efforts in daily weather forecasting, search-and-rescue operations, and long-term weather...
April 13, 2011 12:53 PM
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Report: Current European Biofuel Policies 'Unethical'
A report from the influential British think tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that current U.K. and European policies on biofuel use are encouraging unethical practices, including...
April 12, 2011 5:16 PM
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As Congress Slashes EPA Budget, Research Least Harmed
Science and technology at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be sliced 3.9%, to $815 million, under the new budget for FY 2011. That's a deeper cut than at...
April 11, 2011 6:26 PM
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Ex-Cop Builds Bicycle-Powered Winch to Bolster Arctic Research
Scientists with the Caitlin Arctic Survey have been utilizing a new device on this year's 10-week expedition on the edge of the Arctic Ocean near Ellef Ringnes Island, Canada:...
April 6, 2011 7:06 PM
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Senate Rejects Bid to Stymie EPA Climate Regs
A measure that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its rules on greenhouse gas emissions failed today in the U.S. Senate. The proposal, sponsored by Senate Minority...
April 6, 2011 5:47 PM
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Q&A With Richard Muller: A Physicist and His Surprising Climate Data
Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has gained a solid scientific reputation for his work in astrophysics and particle physics. He's waded into policy debates over...
April 4, 2011 5:55 PM
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Will EPA Lose Control of Greenhouse Gas Rules?
There's two ways that an ongoing program to regulate greenhouse gases by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could get shut down this week by Congress or the White...
April 4, 2011 5:09 PM
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Fukushima Radiation: Modeling Shows Limited Spread in Ocean
Daily computer simulations are suggesting that, so far, the hazardous radioactive materials being released into the sea by the Fukushima nuclear plants are still largely restricted to areas near...
March 31, 2011 10:00 AM
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Live Hearing: NASA's Schmidt, Pew's Gulledge, and Science's Kintisch on Climate (Transcript)
A hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live feed at their site) tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST will explore the science behind the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's...
March 21, 2011 5:49 PM
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Quake Scuttles Mission to Study Deep-Sea Carbon
Japan's half-billion-dollar deep-sea drilling vessel was also a casualty of the tsunami following the massive 11 March earthquake. The Chikyu was docked at Hachinohe, 250 kilometers north of Sendai,...
March 15, 2011 6:09 PM
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Fukushima's Radiation So Far
At the Fukushima reactor I, the Japanese government reports, workers have been in the vicinity of radiation levels in the past day as high as 400 millisieverts per hour....
March 11, 2011 5:04 PM
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Bill Moving to Halt EPA Carbon Regs
Yesterday, a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill, H.R. 910, that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases....
March 10, 2011 6:22 PM
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Melting Accelerating, Satellites Report, But Data Flow May Cease
Data published yesterday by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and colleagues revealed that Earth's ice sheets are melting at a rate that could mean...
March 9, 2011 1:44 PM
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Exclusive: Climatologist Says He Deleted E-mails, But Not at Mann's Behest
Investigative files released yesterday to a climate science blog by an unnamed U.S. lawmaker suggest a new twist in the ongoing University of East Anglia climate e-mails saga. Other...
March 8, 2011 6:22 PM
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Climate Science on Sidelines as EPA Bill Proceeds
A panel of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee held an odd hearing today, which was liveblogged by ScienceInsider. The topic was climate science, but the reason...
March 8, 2011 9:55 AM
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House Climate Science Hearing: Liveblog With Gavin Schmidt, NASA (Transcript)
A hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live feed here) will explore the science behind the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to regulate greenhouse gases. NASA's Gavin...
February 28, 2011 5:19 PM
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NIH Begins Study of Oil Spill's Impact on Residents
Today, the U.S. government launched what's being billed as the largest study ever conducted of how an oil spill affects human health. The Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study will survey...
February 25, 2011 12:14 PM
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U.S. Ocean Agency Mostly Unscathed on Climate E-mails Inquiry
The U.S. Department of Commerce inspector general appears to have given the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a clean bill of health after reviewing the East Anglia e-mails...
February 23, 2011 2:44 PM
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Three-Quarters of Coral Reefs Threatened, Report Says
The news for coral reefs just got worse. Today, 75% of the world's coral reefs are threatened, a new report says, an increase from 58% a decade ago. Local...
February 18, 2011 11:30 AM
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War and Peace Over Holdren's Climate Testimony
A fleeting peace broke out yesterday on Capitol Hill over the contentious issue of climate change. For a few minutes it looked like a détente had been reached between...
February 15, 2011 6:20 PM
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Proposed Rise for Oceans' Agency Budget as Satellite Costs Mount
Although 2012 budget documents for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) are still being vetted by the Department of Commerce and the White House, the big picture has...
February 14, 2011 5:51 PM
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EPA Research Would Be Cut—But Not As Much as Other Programs
A steady rise in research funding at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Obama Administration would come to an end in the FY 2012 budget, according to the...
February 10, 2011 2:45 PM
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Climate Science, D.C. Style: 'Some Say Yes, and Some Say No'
In an item ScienceInsider ran yesterday, freshman Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), the newly named chair of the House of Representatives science panel's basic research and education subcommittee, was asked...
February 10, 2011 11:34 AM
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Budget Impasse Delays Key Environment Satellite
As Congress dithered last year on the 2011 federal budget—agencies are still bound by last year's budgets under an agreement called a continuing resolution—earth science done via satellite took...
February 9, 2011 5:32 PM
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Can the U.S. Farm Fish Offshore Safely?
Worried about the U.S. trade deficit? After crude oil and natural gas, the third largest contributor to the deficit is seafood—the U.S. imports some $9 billion worth each year....
February 8, 2011 6:03 PM
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When Wind Is Reliable: Turbines Help Texans Avoid the Dark
Last Wednesday morning, rolling blackouts left nearly a million Texans in the dark after abnormally cold temperatures crippled 50 coal and natural gas plants. But without wind power, it...
February 7, 2011 6:02 PM
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Was the Clean Air Act Intended to Cover CO2?
Yes, said five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007, when they ruled that greenhouse gases qualified under the Clean Air Act’s definition of a “pollutant.” Under the...
February 7, 2011 4:21 PM
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Sealed-Off Lake Still Tantalizingly Out of Reach
The Russian team that has been drilling for 24 hours a day to reach the sub-glacial Lake Vostok that lies at the bottom of a 3750-meter-thick ice sheet in...
February 3, 2011 4:18 PM
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Russians Approach Pristine Antarctic Lake
Russian scientists drilling toward Lake Vostok, an enormous body of fresh water sealed off beneath Antarctic ice for 35 million years, have until Sunday to reach their goal before...
January 13, 2011 1:19 PM
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New Schedule Seen to Improve/Strengthen Impacts Portion of IPCC Report
Climate scientists hope to improve the most contentious section of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by changing how they deal with uncertain data,...
January 6, 2011 2:37 PM
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Oil Spill Commission Roundup: 'A Failure of Management'
The presidential oil spill commission has released one chapter of its final report focused on one aspect of the calamity: Most of the mistakes and oversights at Macondo can...
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