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- Confronted with passionate opposition to adding fluoride to the city’s water, the Davis City Council took the easy way out.
- Bechtel, which is building a $12.2 billion waste-treatment plant at the federal government’s decommissioned Hanford nuclear weapons site in Washington state, has been buying critically important parts without subjecting them to the required quality...
- After BP witnesses spent the day backing the company's claim that it did everything possible to stop the jet of oil in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the BP trial will recommence Monday with an examination of how to tally the spill volume.
- People love Chipotle’s “The Scarecrow” — a touching animated short film that’s basically a polemic on industrial food. But the fast-growing burrito chain doesn’t care. The agriculture industry hates it.
- A Japanese study is claiming that toxic air pollution from China is to blame for high mercury levels atop the country's beloved Mount Fuji.
- How will California’s shipping ports, infrastructure and airports be affected by rising sea levels? Those questions will be asked during a hearing hosted by Assemblyman Rich Gordon and the Assembly Select Committee on Sea Level Rise and the...
- After BP witnesses spent the day backing the company's claim that it did everything possible to stop the jet of oil in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the BP trial will recommence Monday with an examination of how to tally the spill volume.
- Mercury levels are increasing in the eggs of water birds that nest downstream of Canada’s oil sands region, according to a new study. Eggs of Ring-billed Gulls collected from northern Alberta’s Mamawi Lake in 2012 had 139 percent more mercury than...
- The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report presents the climate sensitivity consensus range with far more certainty than ever before, and it brings a second sort of climate sensitivity measure to the fore, one better anchored in...
- Japan’s greenhouse-gas emissions climbed to their second-highest level on record in the last fiscal year, mainly because the country used more fossil fuels to make up for the loss of power produced by nuclear plants, all of which are now offline.
- The government shutdown means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has furloughed 45 percent of its workers, and the agency's routine food inspections have been put on hold. Experts warn that even a short government shutdown could be a lasting...
- An additional 16 people were charged by Russia with piracy Thursday for their role in a foiled Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, a Russian television network reported.
- New California regulations on the use of corrosive acids in oil production are sparking debates among federal energy regulators about rules for a technology largely overshadowed by the fracking method of extracting oil.
- Thousands of Spanish homeowners on a Mediterranean coastline have suffered a month of sleepless nights after a wave of minor earthquakes. Many people, including the country’s Minister of Industry, say a massive offshore gas storage plant could be to...
- Fiji envisages a clear, predictable, flexible and legally binding agreement on climate change based on common rules-based system says Foreign Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola.
- There are growing concerns over radiation risks as a new report finds widespread environmental damage on an unimaginable scale in the U.S.
- New England’s Native tribes can help modern America adapt to climate change. That's the conclusion of more than 50 researchers published in a special issue of the journal Climatic Change.
- Scientists have recently developed awe-inspiring visualizations of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states a year ago.
- In November, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Warsaw. Governments around the world should recall the original goal, which is to take steps to make sure that there will be no...
- Critics point out that some chemicals like bisphenol A can briefly influence human endocrine levels. But they dismiss the fact that our endocrine systems are dynamic and built to quickly adjust to brief exposure to these endocrine disruptors.
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