The suicide earlier this month of open-access activist Aaron Swartz brings again to the fore the ongoing difficulty journalists have accessing published scientific studies that bear on key current and future policy issues. Photo of Swartz, credit Flickr/peretzp.
"A carcinogenic mold, its growth exacerbated by the warming climate, reached record highs in 2012."
"Leaked documents reveal the government has sought to change proposals that could prevent deepsea drilling operations."
"NASA and NOAA scientists say 2012 global temperature records further consolidate a pattern of global warming."
"DAVIS, Calif. -- What causes autism? The question has spurred about a billion dollars' worth of genetics research that has found no clear answer. But University of California, Davis, epidemiologist Irva Hertz-Picciotto has been pursuing another angle: Does the environment around a pregnant woman play a role in determining whether her child develops autism?"
"Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a four-year international study released on Tuesday."
"Marcia McNutt, who resigned as director of the US Geological Survey, says hurricane Sandy has left communities exposed."
"WASHINGTON -- More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.7 billion in emergency relief for the victims Tuesday night as Republican leaders struggled to close out an episode that exposed painful party divisions inside Congress and out."
"WASHINGTON -- Just before he and other environmentalists marched to the White House on Tuesday, climate change activist James Hansen warned he wouldn’t be able to be arrested with them this time. Hansen, a NASA scientist by day and an activist on his own time, had to be available for a press conference in the afternoon announcing that worldwide temperatures in 2012 were in the top 10 hottest ever recorded."
"WEATHERFORD, Texas -- When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun "bubbling" like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas. At first, the Environmental Protection Agency believed the situation was so serious that it issued a rare emergency order in late 2010 that said at least two homeowners were in immediate danger from a well saturated with flammable methane. More than a year later, the agency rescinded its mandate and refused to explain why."
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[3] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=deadly-fungus-poisons-corn-crops
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/uk-seeks-water-down-arctic-oil-drilling-proposals
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[9] http://eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2013/01/15/2
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[11] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/67628
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[13] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/15/east-coast-sandy-storms-obama-scientist?CMP=twt_gu
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sandy-aid-bill-approved-house
[15] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/sandy-aid-bill_n_2483017.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
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[17] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/01/15/179955/climate-change-activists-turn.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-changed-course-after-oil-company-protested
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[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3741
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