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Billion dollar climate denial network exposed

Posted in Business on 24th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

A network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible.

91 new species described by California Academy Of Sciences in 2013

Posted in Science on 23rd Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

The new species, include 38 different ants, 12 fishes, 14 plants, eight beetles, two spiders, one reptile, and one amphibian.

Green Energy Scheme To Burn Beetle Infested Trees

Posted in Featured, Science on 21st Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

In a new program, the U.S. Forest Service is fueling a biomass power plant in Colorado with trees killed by a pest called the mountain pine beetle.

Global Warming: 4 Degree Rise Will End Vegetation Carbon Sink

Posted in Featured, Science on 18th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Carbon will spend increasingly less time in vegetation as the negative impacts of climate change take their toll.

NASA says ozone hole stabilizing but won't fully recover until 2070

Posted in Science on 14th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

The assessment comes two decades after the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that banned chlorofluorocarbons and other compounds that deplete the ozone layer.