"Lyme Disease Far More Common Than Previously Known"
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 300,000 Americans are getting Lyme disease every year, and the toll is growing."
Source: NPR, 08/20/2013
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"Copper May Play Key Role in Alzheimer's Disease"
"New research finds that copper in amounts readily found in our drinking water, the foods we eat and the vitamin supplements we take likely plays a key role in initiating and fueling the abnormal protein build-up and brain inflammation that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease."
"While the mineral is important to healthy nerve conduction, hormone secretion and the growth of bones and connective tissue, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center suggested that too much of it may be a bad thing, and they set about to explore copper's dark side.
Source: LA Times, 08/20/2013
"Coastal Cities Face $1 Trillion Floods By 2050: Study"
"In less than 40 years from now the cost to the world's biggest coastal cities from flooding is expected to have risen to $1tn – 0.7% of the value of the entire world economy in 2012."
Source: Guardian, 08/20/2013
SEJ Members Talk About Environmental Journalism at University of California, Davis Law School Event
The first event in the UC Davis California Environmental Law & Policy Center (CELPC) Fall 2013 Speakers' Series features a panel on Environmental Journalism with four journalists who offer their perspectives and insights on reporting in this fascinating area within the overall landscape of journalism and public discourse on the environment. Moderator: Chris Bowman (pictured), communications director at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences.
"A Secret Race for Abandoned Nuclear Material"
"Working in top secret over a period of 17 years, Russian and American scientists collaborated to remove hundreds of pounds of plutonium and highly enriched uranium — enough to construct at least a dozen nuclear weapons — from a remote Soviet-era nuclear test site in Kazakhstan that had been overrun by impoverished metal scavengers, according to a report released last week by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard."
Source: NY Times, 08/19/2013
"EPA Debuts Bee-Protective Pesticide Labels, Enviros Demand More"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- To protect bees and other pollinators, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present. Environmentalists want the agency to take these pesticides off the market."
Source: ENS, 08/19/2013
"Building Keystone XL Could Damage US Parks, Interior Dept. Says"
"Building the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to more manmade light and noise in sparsely populated regions, which may harm natural resources, wildlife and visitors to national parks, the U.S. Interior Department said."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/19/2013
Plants Shipped Uninspected Meat After USDA Computer Failure
"WASHINGTON — A troubled new computer system used by inspectors at the nation’s 6,500 meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days this month, putting at risk millions of pounds of beef, poultry, pork and lamb that had left the plants before workers could collect samples to check for E. coli bacteria and other contaminants."
Source: NY Times, 08/19/2013
"Fires, Smoke, Floods Are Drawbacks of Alaska's Hot Summer"
"ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska residents have been enjoying an unusually warm, sunny summer, but the pleasant weather has come at a cost: choking smoke from an extended wildfire season, flooding rivers due to fast-melting snow and glacial ice, and fish covered in algae."
Source: Reuters, 08/19/2013
Warmer Winters Bring Pest To New Jersey: Asian Tiger Mosquitoes
"TRENTON, N.J. -- Recent warmer-than-usual winters that may be attributable to climate change have brought a troublesome and potentially dangerous new effect, according to a Mercer County scientist: expanding swarms of Asian tiger mosquitoes."
Source: Trenton Times, 08/19/2013
