Published on December 4th, 2013 | by Don Lieber
This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on sulfur dioxide (SO2) and ... Read More →
Published on December 3rd, 2013 | by Jake Richardson
Project Peanut Butter, a non-profit organization located in St. Louis, MO is trying to save the lives of two million South Asian and African children by 2015. They say 20 million children suffer from severe acute ... Read More →
Published on December 3rd, 2013 | by Don Lieber
This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on pet coke. 5. Formaldehyde ... Read More →
Published on December 2nd, 2013 | by Sandy Dechert
“Determining the HIV-1 subtype of infected individuals could be important in the management of HIV-1 infections,” say A3/O2 study authors. (Photo: GIZMODO) Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, appears to have generated the newest strain of the HIV/AIDS virus. ... Read More →
Published on December 2nd, 2013 | by Michael Ricciardi
On Monday morning, December 2, an animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a lawsuit in the Supreme court of New York. The goal of the lawsuit — the first of three planned ... Read More →
Published on December 2nd, 2013 | by Don Lieber
This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on formaldehyde. 6. Polycyclic Aromatic ... Read More →
Published on December 2nd, 2013 | by Nathan
Images of a seven headed snake, supposedly taken in India, having recently been making the rounds on the internet — while the images certainly do appear to be rather poorly done photoshops, perhaps there’s some truth ... Read More →
Published on December 1st, 2013 | by Don Lieber
This is part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 7. ... Read More →
Published on November 30th, 2013 | by Sandy Dechert
At the late November meeting of UN climate delegates in Warsaw, negotiators from Canada–once a strong supporter of fast-start financing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries–and Australia, now led by a rashly conservative government, ... Read More →
Published on November 30th, 2013 | by Don Lieber
This is one part of a 10-part series on the ”Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used By The Fossil Fuel Industries.” Read, share, and check in tomorrow for the next part, which will focus on mercury. 8. Silica (Silicon ... Read More →
Published on November 30th, 2013 | by Nathan
Corvids — the family of birds that includes ravens, crows and magpies — are highly intelligent animals that are known for sharing many behavioral characteristics with primates, despite being only very distantly related. Tool use, planning, ... Read More →
Published on November 29th, 2013 | by Nathan
A pair of massive subglacial lakes have been discovered underneath of the melting Greenland Ice Sheet by researchers from the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge. The lakes — located over 800 ... Read More →
