‘Alarmingly High Methane Emissions’ from Natural Gas Extraction
New findings suggest higher than previously noted levels of potent greenhouse gas leaked
Read More →Biotech’s 10 biggest PR disasters of 2012
GMWatch 2012 was the year the lights came up on the biotech industry. Its claims, its tactics and its products all came under scrutiny and some of its biggest PR fairytales bit the dust. Here are some prime examples. 1. Fleeing Europe: The biotech bubble needs to appear to be constantly expanding but in early 2012 [...]
Read More →Poland becomes eighth EU country to ban Monsanto maize
Greenpeace Poland Warsaw – As a result of bans on cultivation of genetically modified crops, that were introduced by the government today, from January 28 2013, planting GMO crops will not be allowed. Many environmental organizations as well as farmers and scientists can see it as a success, pointing out that it is not yet [...]
Read More →Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
Read More →Muslim parents sue UK primary school for banning hijab
ANI A primary school in the UK is being sued by Muslim parents after it banned pupils from wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf. St Cyprian’s Greek Orthodox primary in south London is being hauled before the High Court amid claims that its uniform policy breaches children’s religious freedom. The couple insisted it would be a [...]
Read More →Transocean Guilty in Deepwater Horizon Spill, Fined $1.4 Billion
ENS-Newswire Transocean Deepwater Inc. admitted violating the Clean Water Act and will pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for the April 20, 2010 explosion, fire and oil spill involving the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. The criminal information and a proposed partial civil consent decree to resolve the U.S. government’s civil [...]
Read More →Israeli Soldiers’ Suicides: The Untold Story
César Chelala | Common Dreams Statistics released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) show that in the last 10 years, 237 soldiers killed themselves. That number represents an average of 24 soldiers taking their own lives every year. The release of the IDF statistics was prompted by information about suicides published anonymously by a blogger [...]
Read More →Burma ‘using Chinese airspace’ as fighting nears Kachin HQ
By Francis Wade | AC There is now enough video and photo evidence to confirm that the Burmese military has deployed fighter jets and helicopters close to its border with China to use against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). One video circulating on Facebook, in which you can hear a man speaking Kachin, shows a fighter jet [...]
Read More →Astronomers detect ‘monster’ outflows pouring out of Milky Way’s center
By Lydia Saxton | Space Reporter Astronomers have detected “monster” outflows pouring out of the Milky Way’s center, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency. These outflows of charged particles from the center of the Milky Way, which extend more than halfway across the sky, have been mapped with CSIRO’s [...]
Read More →Bigger fights loom after U.S. ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
Tuoitrenews President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans face even bigger budget battles in the next two months after a hard-fought “fiscal cliff” deal narrowly averted devastating tax increases and spending cuts. The agreement, approved late on Tuesday by the Republican-led House of Representatives and signed by Obama on Wednesday, was a victory for the president, [...]
Read More →Will a megathrust earthquake strike the NW in 2013? Some clues emerging
By Jake Ellison | SeattlePi There were 4,800 earthquakes in the Northwest in 2012 and a record “episodic tremor and slip” event – a string of deep mini-quakes running from Vancouver Island to below Centralia – over the summer, but does any of that mean we’re likely to see the “big one” in 2013? While [...]
Read More →India under grip of cyber attacks
PTI | ZeeNews India is under the grip of cyber attacks and there is an obvious peak in the growth of malware and their modifications on mobile devices, especially on the Android platform, according to a report. Though PC is still the prevalent target for malware authors, there is an obvious peak in the growth [...]
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