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- The department of telecommunication has finally woken up to the fact that there may be a correlation between cancer and exposure to radiation from cell phone towers, after a comprehensive study conducted by a DoT body documented cancer deaths in...
- Research into creation of a new generation of synthetic organisms could be the way to save some of the natural world's most endangered species, according to some conservationists. Could, for example, organisms be created that protect animals from...
- For decades, the meat industry has denied any problem with its reliance on routine, everyday antibiotic use for the nation's chickens, cows, and pigs. But after analyzing the mutations of MRSA strains, researchers concluded that it had been...
- Videos of animal cruelty shot in the last two years by undercover agents have drawn swift responses from authorities that included prosecution of people mistreating animals. But another response has emerged: laws making it illegal to covertly...
- Oil industry insiders and environmentalists historically have taken opposing positions. In the Lubbock area, a recent drilling boom fueled by advances in horizontal drilling and fracking, the crippling drought and a depleted Ogallala Aquifer...
- China can control the outbreak of an avian flu strain newly contracted by humans, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday, a day after China reported its eighteenth case of the H7N9 virus that has so far killed six people.
- California’s oil boom started right here in Ventura County in 1867. One-hundred-and-forty-six years later, another oil boom is underway – this one fueled by an estimated 15.4 billion barrels of oil in the Monterey Shale running underground between...
- For anyone consuming large quantities of fish, one of the greatest risks comes from methylmercury, which builds up in the fat of carnivorous fish like salmon. Now Washington and Idaho are overhauling their outdated water quality rules to make sure...
- Desertification is a growing problem in Africa and other parts of the world, and will cause more conflict and food insecurity as climate change spurs it on. Lake Chad is likely the most egregious example of desertification — simply put, the process...
- Americans nationwide are feeling the impacts of climate change, from longer, hotter summers to erratic, heavier downpours to milder winters and ice melt in Alaska, according to a recent draft report by a federal climate commission. Texas is somewhat...
- Our weather, always unpredictable, is now fluctuating on a grand scale and becoming increasingly hard to forecast long-term. The challenge for meteorologists is to explain these unexpected outbreaks of climatic unpleasantness.
- Unlike in Ohio where the drilling industry is still a target of environmental organizations, isolated citizens groups and even a few cities concerned about groundwater, Oklahoma's oil and gas producers get little opposition from the public.
- About 120 tons of contaminated water has leaked from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and may have mixed with underground water, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said April 6.
- New figures seen by the Sunday Express show that in some council areas of Scotland 9 out of every 10 pupils are currently at risk of being exposed to cancer-causing asbestos fibres. According a straw poll of local authorities, 93.1 per cent of...
- A group of dangerous chemicals found in everything from children's toys to toothpaste and furniture are not being properly policed, campaigners warned yesterday. The impact of the chemicals, known as endocrine disruptors, on hormones has the...
- Newly found court documents from long ago are raising fresh questions about the safety of nuclear reactors made by General Electric. After it introduced its first reactor in 1958, GE engineers soon figured out that the company’s reactors had a...
- If those of us who are trying really hard are still fully enmeshed in the fossil fuel system, it makes it even clearer that what needs to change are not individuals but precisely that system. We simply can’t move fast enough, one by one, to make any...
- While Jean Reniteau mulls over the idea of using solar panels to light his house, Frantz Fanfan is wondering how to expand production of biomass briquettes to replace the use of charcoal in the cooking stoves of most of the Haitian people, who lack...
- Desertification is a growing problem in Africa and other parts of the world, and will cause more conflict and food insecurity as climate change spurs it on. Lake Chad is likely the most egregious example of desertification — simply put, the process...
- Americans nationwide are feeling the impacts of climate change, from longer, hotter summers to erratic, heavier downpours to milder winters and ice melt in Alaska, according to a recent draft report by a federal climate commission. Texas is somewhat...
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