Scientists are trying to determine whether there’s a link between last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill and a spike in dolphin deaths along the Gulf Coast. Sixty-seven bottlenose dolphins have washed up on Gulf beaches over the past few weeks. More than half — 35 — are babies. Researchers are looking at other possible causes, including infectious disease or the abnormally cold winter, but the large numbers of dead calves are particularly unusual...
BP has reneged on promises made in November to negotiate early payments to Louisiana to help rebuild oyster beds, repair damaged wetlands and build a fish hatchery to allow the state to respond immediately to the collapse of commercial fisheries in the wake of the BP Gulf oil spill, state officials said Monday. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority chairman Garret Graves and Department of Wildlife & Fisheries director Robert Barham said the state will instead...
The sun provides more than enough energy for all our needs, if only we could harness it cheaply and efficiently. Solar energy could provide a clean alternative to fossil fuels, but the high cost of solar cells has been a major barrier to their widespread use. Stanford researchers have found that adding a single layer of organic molecules to a solar cell can increase its efficiency three-fold and could lead to cheaper, more efficient...
Early this morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill thatamounts to the biggest attack on clean air and clean water in recent history. H.R. 1, the continuing resolution offered by House Republicans to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, passed by a vote of 235-189. Only three Republicans joined all the Democrats in voting no. “The U.S. House of Representatives failed to protect the public health...
According to the common douche-baggery of the Religious Right, environmentalism is the root of all evil. Due to its “long history of believing and promoting exaggerations and myths,” it is invading homes, indoctrinating schools and robbing the young of their free will. Um, sorry guys. I think you have all that backwards. Devoid of reality and common sense, the new, 12-part DVD series titled “Resisting The Green Dragon” – produced by various Christian leaders in...
Russian scientists used kerosene to keep a drilled hole open in the remote Antarctic Lake Vostok writes Eric Niiler for Discovery News. The big mystery of Lake Vostok and whether it holds ancient microbial life will have to wait for another Antarctic winter to pass. A team of Russian researchers left their remote drilling site this week with less than 50 feet to go to break into the surface of a vast underground lake...
The bodies of virtually all pregnant women across the United States carry multiple toxic chemicals. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco detected some chemicals banned since the 1970s and others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products. The study by the UCSF research team marks the first time that the number of chemicals to which U.S. pregnant women are exposed has been counted. The researchers...
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