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"Cyber Bullying Rises as Climate Data Are Questioned" [1]

Climate scientists are the target of an organized campaign of hate mail and threats that they say seem calculated to silence them. And some say the bullying campaign seems to be inspired by media superstars.

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Source: Daily Climate [5], 03/01/2010

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"Penn State Investigates Researcher Over 'Climate-gate'" [6]

"Penn State University announced Wednesday it had dismissed three of the most serious charges against one of its top climate researchers, Michael E. Mann, but would continue to probe if he violated academic standards of conduct in connection with Climate-gate, a series of e-mail exchanges that came to light after hackers pirated the University of East Anglia's server."

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Source: Post Carbon [8], 02/04/2010

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Study Shows Managed Turf Is Net Greenhouse Gas Loser [9]

A study by Univ. of California-Irvine researchers has found that while grass itself acted as a carbon sink, when other factors are taken into account — fuel burned to maintain the lawn, emissions from fertilizer spread to help it grow, etc. — four times as much carbon was emitted than was absorbed.

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Science Survey: Notes on Nature Can Be a Telling Scientific Record of Home [13]

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AAAS Meeting Offers Chance To Catch Enviro Scientists [16]

Dozens of sessions on environmental topics are on the agenda at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held Feb. 18-22 in San Diego.

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White House Moves To Reinstate Bush-Suppressed Climate Reports [18]

Katharine Jacobs, chair of the forthcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and a professor at the University of Arizona, will head up the effort to reinstate the National Assessment — with new emphasis on adaptation.

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"C.I.A. Data Sharing With Environmental Scientists Is Revived" [21]

"The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets -- including spy satellites and other classified sensors -- as sensitive instruments that can assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests."

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Source: NYTimes [22], 01/05/2010

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Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost [23]

A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.

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"Troubled Waters, Part II: On the Trail of the Lost Data" [25]

"In 2004, CDC scientists published a reassuring report about lead contamination in Washington’s water even though they knew that thousands of blood lead measurements had been lost. Now Congress wants to know why."

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Source: AAAS Professional Ethics Report [26], 10/02/2009