Environment
- California Judge Denies Trial Lawyer Efforts To Get A Glyphosate Warning Label
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A federal judge's recent discussion about why glyphosate should not have a warning label in California, despite the efforts of trial lawyers and the environmental groups they pay, not only shows the label would have no scientific validity, it calls i ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2018 - 3:45pm
- Global Climatic Event Leads To New Geologic Time Scale, The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age
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Around 2,200 B.C, agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt cooling and a critical mega-drought. Humans had been progressing nicely since the end of the last Ice Age, and suddenly this cooling, and accompanying droughts, forced the coll ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2018 - 8:45am
- Cover Crops Enhance Soil Quality- At A Cost
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Replacing fallow lands with cover crops in order to increase the levels of carbon and soil nitrogen also enhances its quality and mitigates nitrate leaching in an agricultural land, according to a new analysis. After collecting data for ten years, result ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2018 - 4:20pm
- Tropical Forest Conservation Is A Rich Country Solution Paid For By Poor Indigenous People
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In ireland 100 years ago, 1 percent of the island was forest, now it is 11 percent, and Irish people have no problem with food. They even grow Spruce, which is not native, to craft and sell furniture. Given that developed countries have lots of forest now ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2018 - 2:26pm
- China Is Undertaking The 'Riskiest Environmental Project In History'
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While churnalism sites like Gizmodo manufacture culture wars in order to promote fear and doubt about American science and medicine. China is engaging in actual risky behavior with no media attention from clickbait sites. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 3:27pm
- Sea Level Rise Threatens UK Coastal Wetlands By 2100
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A new analysis estimates that if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, sea-level rise will endanger coastal wetlands across the United Kingdom. That conclusion was derived by estimating salt-marsh vulnerability using the geological record of past los ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 5:54pm
- Bees: It's The Viruses That Are The Problem
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While environmentalists raise millions of dollars insisting they will get targeted pesticides (e.g. neonicotinoids) banned to save bees that aren't really in peril, science is looking at things which do actually put bees at risk. At the top of the li ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2018 - 10:16am
- Marine Litter: The Public Mistakenly Trusts Environmental Groups, And That Impedes Progress
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Across Europe, 95 percent of people claim to have seen seen litter when they visited the coast- yet they say they don't litter. And they don't trust scientists, corporations or government to solve it, which leaves environmentalists who don't ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2018 - 7:00am
- How Do You Estimate The Economic Value Of A Clean Beach?
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Millions of Americans head outdoors in the summer, whether for a day at a nearby lake or a monthlong road trip. For environmental economists like me, decisions by vacationers and outdoor recreators offer clues to a challenging puzzle: estimating what envi ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 24 2018 - 7:38am
- Better Standards Of Living Have Led To Marine Pollution, Not Too Many Straws
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American cities nationwide, riding a wave of populism brought about by media attention, are looking to ban straws, claiming they will save the planet doing so. Companies are naturally following suit- companies always will, because consumers pay the cost an ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2018 - 12:34pm