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Andrew Revkin of the New York Times Dot Earth blog revealed recently leaked email memos and publicly available written pieces that show climate scientists furiously debating the best strategy for reclaiming public support for green initiatives.
Last weekend, the who's who of Western entertainment gathered in Los Angeles to cheer on the winners of coveted Oscar awards. The winner of the best documentary Oscar, "The Cove," got a much different reaction from the residents of the town that served as the film's location. That's because the docu...
The federal government announced that $100 million in stimulus funds would be directed to the newly formed ARPA-E research program. Modeled after the Pentagon's DARPA program, whose high-risk research lead to the development of the internet, GPS, and large military advancements, the ARPA-E program c...
LOS ANGELES, California, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - "The Cove," an American film documenting the annual killing of dolphins in a cove near the Japanese village of Taiji, was awarded an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Sunday night by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Directed by former N...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2010 (ENS) - The greater sage-grouse "warrants" the protection of the Endangered Species Act but listing the species at this time is "precluded by the need to address higher priority species first," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday.
A special working group working to save the International Whaling Commission met in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida to propose a "package" that could bring whaling and anti-whaling countries closer together. Notes from the Chairman, which clearly state that "nothing is agreed until everything is agree...
LIHUE, Kauai, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - Four conservation groups today advised the St. Regis Princeville Resort on Kauai's North Shore of their intent to sue over the resort's failure to prevent the deaths of rare native seabirds, in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act.
The St. Regis is own...
WASHINGTON, DC, March 4, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. The listings make these sites eligible to receive federal funds for long-term...
British officials and lawmakers carried out the first hearing against climate scientist Phil Jones yesterday over uncertainties in his research results made public by leaked emails now known as "Climategate." Simon Hoggart of The Guardian described Jones as "taut, nervous, often miserable. Often his...
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 2, 2010 (ENS) - The first breeding population of one of the world's least known birds, the large-billed reed-warbler, Acrocephalus orinus, has just been discovered in the remote, rugged Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains in northeastern Afghanistan.
On Sunday, Afghanist...
