By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that have agreed to cut their emissions honest, scientists said in papers published Monday. [More]
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Read More »Can Taxes Be Green?
Pollution is cheap, for the polluter. Releasing sulfurous fumes into the air or dumping radioactive water into the ocean is ostensibly the easiest and cheapest way to deal with unwanted byproducts.
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TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi [More]
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PHILADELPHIA--In medicine, there's the patient and there's the chart. And the chart is paper. [More]
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Honey’s been a medicine since before medicine as we know it even existed. Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly four thousand years ago.
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A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a 60-foot model of the dinosaur named Mamenchisaurus.
Read More »Let’s make a deal: Revisiting the Monty Hall problem
"Charles Sanders Peirce once observed that in no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory." [More]
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Beer , for the most part, is not like wine--it does not improve with age. Quite the contrary, in fact
Read More »Recession cuts U.S. and Russia 2009 greenhouse emissions
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels
Read More »Industry Challenges Study that Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ Adds Excessively to Greenhouse Effect
By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]
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Read More »A year on, Gulf still grapples with BP oil spill
By Anna Driver and Matthew Bigg VENICE, La./WAVELAND, Mississippi (Reuters) - When a BP oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, killing 11 workers, authorities first reported that no crude was leaking into the ocean. [More]
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The fact that he'd stopped crying scared me. Damn rear-facing car seat.
Read More »Too Contagious to Fail: Why Bankers Should Think More Like Epidemiologists
What could the study of infectious disease teach us about the 2008 financial crisis? Plenty, argue University of Oxford ecologist Robert M. [More]
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