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Monsanto Targets Cancer Scientist in Flawed Reuters Story

Monsanto Targets Cancer Scientist in Flawed Reuters Story

By Carey Gillam In a well-orchestrated and highly coordinated media coup, Monsanto Co. and friends this week dropped a bombshell on opponents who are seeking to prove that the company’s beloved Roundup herbicide causes cancer. A widely circulated story published June 14 in the global news outlet Reuters (for which I formerly worked) laid out […]

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    13 U.S. Cities Defy Trump by Posting Deleted Climate Data

    13 U.S. Cities Defy Trump by Posting Deleted Climate Data

    More than one dozen U.S. cities have banded together to post deleted climate change information and research from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website that was notoriously scrubbed by the Trump administration. In May, Chicago became the first city to host the deleted pages, and now other mayors are following in Rahm Emanuel’s footsteps […]

    Climate Scientists, Please Come to France, You Are Welcome

    Climate Scientists, Please Come to France, You Are Welcome

    French President Emmanuel Macron is inviting U.S. climate scientists and researchers to move to France with a new website that takes direct aim at Donald Trump. The Make Our Planet Great Again site, managed by French government agency Business France, provides specific instructions for researchers, teachers and students to apply to open positions in France […]

    Toxic Cocktail of Man-Made Chemicals Found in Great Barrier Reef Turtles

    Toxic Cocktail of Man-Made Chemicals Found in Great Barrier Reef Turtles

    Green Sea Turtles in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are some of the world’s most majestic creatures. They have a lifespan of up to 50 years, but after recent results from blood tests on the marine animals, their health might be in jeopardy. Man-made substances and chemicals are contaminating the ocean and, consequently, sea turtles. After […]

    Trump Betrays Science and Scientists With Climate Walkout

    Trump Betrays Science and Scientists With Climate Walkout

    By Alex Kirby President Donald Trump abandoned science with his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement on climate change, saying, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”—a wonderfully clear statement of his inability to recognize that the earth shares one atmosphere. Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at […]

    Not So Funny: The Arctic is Leaking Laughing Gas

    Not So Funny: The Arctic is Leaking Laughing Gas

    Nitrous oxide, the main ingredient in laughing gas, does more than just act as a nerve agent; it is a powerful greenhouse gas. It is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide and scientists believe could be leaking from ancient reservoirs beneath Arctic permafrost. A team of researchers from Sweden, Finland and Denmark analyzed 16 […]

    NASA Finds New, Frightening Way Glaciers Are Melting in Greenland

    NASA Finds New, Frightening Way Glaciers Are Melting in Greenland

    Scientists have had their eyes on Greenland as its iconic glaciers have begun disappearing due to a warming climate. But, what they didn’t expect to see was a whole new type of melting. The Rink Glacier, the largest glacier on the west coast of Greenland, was exhibiting some strange melting behaviors during the hot summers […]

    Scientists to Pruitt: Your Climate Data Is ‘Incorrect’

    Scientists to Pruitt: Your Climate Data Is ‘Incorrect’

    A group of prominent climate scientists have written a study explicitly refuting statements made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on climate data. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Pruitt claimed in a written response that satellite data shows a “leveling off” of warming over the past two decades. The study, published Wednesday […]