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Scuttling Science
This Reveal News article discusses the trump administration’s pattern of pushing expert scientists out of policy discussions.
Our first story examines federal advisory committees — expert panels that advise the federal government on everything from air pollution to clean drinking water. President Trump signed an executive order that will eliminate […]
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Monsanto’s Spies
This Huffington Post article discusses how the agri-chemical giant Monsanto has a storied history of using shady tactics to attack critics and influence the media.
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Berkeley Earth Website
This website was conceived by Prof. Richard Mueller, a prestigious physics professor at UC Berkeley. He was a climate skeptic initially funded by the Koch Brothers to do an independent analysis of the causes of the planet’s temperature increases. He and his team employed statisticians using advanced statistical methods […]
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Environmental Health News articles on chemical pollution
Environmental Health News writes and reports on a set of stories, with these focusing on the impact of chemicals and pesticides:
An NPR story on: EPA to scale back use of animals to test chemical toxicity.
The Brussels Times reports on five major French cities banning pesticides.
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Report: Costs of Water Pollution, a Global Scourge, ‘Underestimated and Underappreciated’
This article discusses the costs of water pollution, it is ‘Underestimated and Underappreciated’.
The world’s water challenges, messy as they are, can be neatly summarized: Too much, too little, too dirty.
An eye-opening World Bank report argues that insufficient attention is paid to the latter challenge, the stealthy yet […]
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Crabs and shrimp are looking for love, finding sickness at the polluted Deepwater Horizon spill site
This article discusses how crabs and shrimp are looking for love, finding sickness at the polluted Deepwater Horizon spill site. Deep-sea crabs and shrimp have been appearing in droves at the oil-soaked site of the Deepwater Horizon rig. The likely reason, according to new research: Chemicals released from old, […]
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There’s a new group of workers spreading organic pesticide on crops: bees
This Fast Company article discusses how bees spreading an organic pesticide. As they leave their hives, the bees get coated with a beneficial fungus that they spread to plants, which protects things like strawberries from disease.
Bees are great at retrieving tiny cargo: their main job is to visit flowering […]
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Report: Annual Assessment of North Cascades Glaciers Finds ‘Shocking Loss’ of Volume
This article discusses the ice loss at the North Cascades Glaciers to be ‘Shocking’. The summer of 2019 found the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project in the field for the 36th consecutive summer monitoring the response of North Cascade glaciers to climate change. This long term monitoring program was initiated partly […]
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Report: Lower cost, less controversy: Business case builds for energy efficiency
This article discusses a lower cost, less controversial partial solution to global warming – energy efficiency. Using much less energy to power everything from buildings to cars is a promising – and not-so-divisive – way to meet climate goals, experts say. As the world seeks ways to hold the […]
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