Wildlife and
habitat
Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
Crabs, supersized by carbon pollution, may upset Chesapeake's balance
Studies reveal Midwestern frogs decline, mammal populations altered by invasive plant
Amphibians living close to farm fields are more resistant to common insecticides
US urban trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value
Australia's Top Attorney to Argue Japan Whaling Case
Rising sea levels threaten migratory birds: Study
Zeal to ensure clean leafy greens takes bite out of riverside habitat in California
Traditional ranching practices enhance African savanna
Sumatran orangutans' rainforest home faces new threat
Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers
Tortoise trafficking raging out of control in Madagascar
Rangers band together to protect National Parks from oil and gas drilling
9th panther death of 2013 reported in SW Florida
Threatened Grizzly Bears in Montana to Lose Federal Protection
Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list
Iceland to resume disputed fin whale hunt in June
Overfishing in federal fisheries hits record low
Scientists Are Divided Over Threat to Pacific Northwest Salmon
Australia's Barrier Reef set for heritage downgrade: UNESCO
Scientists discover new species of bass in Florida
Saving Native Plant Species With Green Roofs
The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy
Discoveries about the natural world
Human impacts on natural world underestimated
Do bats know voices of friends they hang out with?
Fish Uses Sign Language With Other Species
The more feathers a male sparrow carries to the nest, the more eggs the female will lay
Rats take high-speed multisensory snapshots
Baby Sand Tiger Sharks Devour Their Siblings While Still in the Womb
How do chameleons and other creatures change colour?
Bizarre Bone Worms Emit Acid to Feast on Whale Skeletons
The moth with the highest-pitched hearing
Erectile function: bats mop up nectar with “hairy” tongues
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
Cheating favors extinction
Fossil illuminates ancestry of swifts and hummingbirds
Geologists Study Mystery of 'Eternal Flames'
Weather and climate
How the ice ages ended
As climate changes, boreal forests to shift and relinquish more carbon than expected
Rare May snowstorm annihilates records in Midwest
U.S. sets record for fewest tornadoes and tornado deaths
Russian researchers say evidence supports notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
Environmental policy
Keystone foes seek climate measures in case they lose
EPA stumbles again in releasing more CAFO documents
Pennsylvania: House Democrats seek more drilling safeguards
Energy
Renewable Energy is Merely Another Front in the Culture Wars Now
Oil drilling technology leaps, clean energy lags
New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Sun Plus Nanotechnology: Can Solar Energy Get Bigger by Thinking Small?
Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World
Senators Request Investigation of International Fusion Experiment
Researchers find that some 'green' hot water systems fail to deliver on promises
Water
EPA planning more stringent standards for stormwater at newly developed sites
Bad news: Calif. snowpack 17 percent of normal
Hurricane Sandy dumped 11bn gallons of raw sewage in eastern US waterways
Chemical concerns, radiation, waste management, recycling
Study finds PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas
Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick
Flame
retardants
may be toxic to children
Related: D4 and nonylphenol in textiles, plastics
Methyl ethyl ketone in 469 products
BPA reported in few children's products
Parabens used as preservatives
Low levels of phthalates in more than 700 products
Ubiquitous engineered nanomaterials cause lung inflammation, study finds
Flow of Tainted Water Is Latest Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant
New York City Starts Recycling All Rigid Plastics
Lead Poisoning Comes to the Remote Amazon
Grand Canyon uranium mine draws ire
Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering
Agriculture and food, livestock and pets
Case studies: A hard look at GM crops
Transgenic crops: A new breed
Honey Bee Decline Due to ‘Complex’ Multiple Factors
Related: Bees need honey's natural pharmaceuticals
Suit Cites Race Bias in Farms’ Use of Immigrants
Scientists alarmed by rapid spread of Brown Streak Disease in cassava
Who Paid For Last Summer's Drought? You Did
Gut bacteria and melamine toxicity
Coumarin in cinnamon and cinnamon-based products and risk of liver damage
Soy and tomato combo may be effective in preventing prostate cancer
Could Eating Peppers Prevent Parkinson's?
How grapes reduce heart failure associated with hypertension
Whole walnuts and their extracted oil improve cardiovascular disease risk
Dark chocolate improves calmness
Why Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell
US to open first horse slaughter houses since 2007
Rat meat sold as lamb in latest China food scandal
Health and medicine, human behavior
An End to Medical Billing Secrecy?
Also see: Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, U.S. Data Shows
News from the Front in War on Cancer--Mission Not Accomplished
Is Psychiatry Dishonest? (book review)
Pediatric specialists not following clinical guidelines in treating preschoolers with ADHD
Sunshine could benefit health and prolong life, study suggests
DNA Studies Lend Weight to New Way of Looking at Cancer
The nocebo effect: media reports may trigger symptoms of a disease
Increases in heart disease risk factors may decrease brain function
H7N9 bird flu is a 'serious threat' - researchers warn
Fears over new man-made bird flu bug
Autism-Lyme correlation debunked
Discovery shows fat triggers rheumatoid arthritis
Parents who suck on their infants' pacifiers may protect children against allergy
Children with milk allergy may be 'allergic to school'
Black women may have highest multiple sclerosis rates
Related: What is Causing Iran’s Spike in MS Cases?
Concerns that teen athletes continue to play with concussion symptoms
LCSB discovers endogenous antibiotic in the brain
New evidence on how fluoride fights tooth decay
This New Drug Neutralizes Heroin Before Users Feel the High
Hookah smoking delivers carcinogens and carbon monoxide
Suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged Americans
The link between sexual harassment and 'purging' – in men
Common habits that harm your teeth
Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton Shown to Be Human
Brains of kids with conduct problems under-react to painful images
Wide-eyed fear expressions may help us -- and others -- to locate threats
A Sense of Where You Are -- The brain's GPS
Teen girls who exercise are less likely to be violent
Weight gain linked with personality trait changes
Explainer: What is intuition?
Psychiatry divided as mental health 'bible' denounced
When women sell themselves short on team projects
Study shows so-called cougars, sugar daddies more myth than reality
Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
Crabs, supersized by carbon pollution, may upset Chesapeake's balance
Studies reveal Midwestern frogs decline, mammal populations altered by invasive plant
Amphibians living close to farm fields are more resistant to common insecticides
US urban trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value
Australia's Top Attorney to Argue Japan Whaling Case
Rising sea levels threaten migratory birds: Study
Zeal to ensure clean leafy greens takes bite out of riverside habitat in California
Traditional ranching practices enhance African savanna
Sumatran orangutans' rainforest home faces new threat
Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers
Tortoise trafficking raging out of control in Madagascar
Rangers band together to protect National Parks from oil and gas drilling
9th panther death of 2013 reported in SW Florida
Threatened Grizzly Bears in Montana to Lose Federal Protection
Fishermen want humpback whales off endangered list
Iceland to resume disputed fin whale hunt in June
Overfishing in federal fisheries hits record low
Scientists Are Divided Over Threat to Pacific Northwest Salmon
Australia's Barrier Reef set for heritage downgrade: UNESCO
Scientists discover new species of bass in Florida
Saving Native Plant Species With Green Roofs
The swarm: stand by for the deafening cicada orgy
Discoveries about the natural world
Human impacts on natural world underestimated
Do bats know voices of friends they hang out with?
Fish Uses Sign Language With Other Species
The more feathers a male sparrow carries to the nest, the more eggs the female will lay
Rats take high-speed multisensory snapshots
Baby Sand Tiger Sharks Devour Their Siblings While Still in the Womb
How do chameleons and other creatures change colour?
Bizarre Bone Worms Emit Acid to Feast on Whale Skeletons
The moth with the highest-pitched hearing
Erectile function: bats mop up nectar with “hairy” tongues
Lofted by hurricanes, bacteria live the high life
Cheating favors extinction
Fossil illuminates ancestry of swifts and hummingbirds
Geologists Study Mystery of 'Eternal Flames'
Weather and climate
How the ice ages ended
As climate changes, boreal forests to shift and relinquish more carbon than expected
Rare May snowstorm annihilates records in Midwest
U.S. sets record for fewest tornadoes and tornado deaths
Russian researchers say evidence supports notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
Environmental policy
Keystone foes seek climate measures in case they lose
EPA stumbles again in releasing more CAFO documents
Pennsylvania: House Democrats seek more drilling safeguards
Energy
Renewable Energy is Merely Another Front in the Culture Wars Now
Oil drilling technology leaps, clean energy lags
New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Sun Plus Nanotechnology: Can Solar Energy Get Bigger by Thinking Small?
Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World
Senators Request Investigation of International Fusion Experiment
Researchers find that some 'green' hot water systems fail to deliver on promises
Water
EPA planning more stringent standards for stormwater at newly developed sites
Bad news: Calif. snowpack 17 percent of normal
Hurricane Sandy dumped 11bn gallons of raw sewage in eastern US waterways
Chemical concerns, radiation, waste management, recycling
Study finds PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas
Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick
Related: D4 and nonylphenol in textiles, plastics
Methyl ethyl ketone in 469 products
BPA reported in few children's products
Parabens used as preservatives
Low levels of phthalates in more than 700 products
Ubiquitous engineered nanomaterials cause lung inflammation, study finds
Flow of Tainted Water Is Latest Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant
New York City Starts Recycling All Rigid Plastics
Lead Poisoning Comes to the Remote Amazon
Grand Canyon uranium mine draws ire
Leaks, Rats and Radioactivity: Fukushima’s Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering
Agriculture and food, livestock and pets
Case studies: A hard look at GM crops
Transgenic crops: A new breed
Honey Bee Decline Due to ‘Complex’ Multiple Factors
Related: Bees need honey's natural pharmaceuticals
Suit Cites Race Bias in Farms’ Use of Immigrants
Scientists alarmed by rapid spread of Brown Streak Disease in cassava
Who Paid For Last Summer's Drought? You Did
Gut bacteria and melamine toxicity
Coumarin in cinnamon and cinnamon-based products and risk of liver damage
Soy and tomato combo may be effective in preventing prostate cancer
Could Eating Peppers Prevent Parkinson's?
How grapes reduce heart failure associated with hypertension
Whole walnuts and their extracted oil improve cardiovascular disease risk
Dark chocolate improves calmness
Why Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell
US to open first horse slaughter houses since 2007
Rat meat sold as lamb in latest China food scandal
Health and medicine, human behavior
An End to Medical Billing Secrecy?
Also see: Hospital Billing Varies Wildly, U.S. Data Shows
News from the Front in War on Cancer--Mission Not Accomplished
Is Psychiatry Dishonest? (book review)
Pediatric specialists not following clinical guidelines in treating preschoolers with ADHD
Sunshine could benefit health and prolong life, study suggests
DNA Studies Lend Weight to New Way of Looking at Cancer
The nocebo effect: media reports may trigger symptoms of a disease
Increases in heart disease risk factors may decrease brain function
H7N9 bird flu is a 'serious threat' - researchers warn
Fears over new man-made bird flu bug
Autism-Lyme correlation debunked
Discovery shows fat triggers rheumatoid arthritis
Parents who suck on their infants' pacifiers may protect children against allergy
Children with milk allergy may be 'allergic to school'
Black women may have highest multiple sclerosis rates
Related: What is Causing Iran’s Spike in MS Cases?
Concerns that teen athletes continue to play with concussion symptoms
LCSB discovers endogenous antibiotic in the brain
New evidence on how fluoride fights tooth decay
This New Drug Neutralizes Heroin Before Users Feel the High
Hookah smoking delivers carcinogens and carbon monoxide
Suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged Americans
The link between sexual harassment and 'purging' – in men
Common habits that harm your teeth
Bizarre 6-Inch Skeleton Shown to Be Human
Brains of kids with conduct problems under-react to painful images
Wide-eyed fear expressions may help us -- and others -- to locate threats
A Sense of Where You Are -- The brain's GPS
Teen girls who exercise are less likely to be violent
Weight gain linked with personality trait changes
Explainer: What is intuition?
Psychiatry divided as mental health 'bible' denounced
When women sell themselves short on team projects
Study shows so-called cougars, sugar daddies more myth than reality
Education
Look! Something shiny! How some textbook visuals can hurt learning
Law
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way
Gun crime plunges, though most Americans think it has risen
Archeology, anthropology, art and history
Europe is one big family
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
Research pushes back origins of agriculture in China by 12,000 years
Europe’s Hypocritical History of Cannibalism
'Proof' Jamestown settlers turned to cannibalism
Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains
The biggest wonder about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? They weren’t in Babylon
Also see: Babylon’s hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder
Archaeologists discover Revolutionary War fort
Secret Streets of Britain's 'Atlantis' Are Revealed
Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple in Mexico
Wright Brothers Flight Legacy Hits New Turbulence
National security, defense
U.S. Accuses China’s Military in Cyberattacks
Should Robots Be Able to Decide to Kill You On Their Own?
New database focuses on China's secretive aid to Africa
Astronomy and cosmology, spaceflight
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Galaxy Cove Vista
Russian Space Junk Almost Destroys NASA Telescope in Orbit
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
Physics, chemistry and materials science, mathematics
Look! Something shiny! How some textbook visuals can hurt learning
Law
U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way
Gun crime plunges, though most Americans think it has risen
Archeology, anthropology, art and history
Europe is one big family
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’
Research pushes back origins of agriculture in China by 12,000 years
Europe’s Hypocritical History of Cannibalism
'Proof' Jamestown settlers turned to cannibalism
Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains
The biggest wonder about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? They weren’t in Babylon
Also see: Babylon’s hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder
Archaeologists discover Revolutionary War fort
Secret Streets of Britain's 'Atlantis' Are Revealed
Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple in Mexico
Wright Brothers Flight Legacy Hits New Turbulence
National security, defense
U.S. Accuses China’s Military in Cyberattacks
Should Robots Be Able to Decide to Kill You On Their Own?
New database focuses on China's secretive aid to Africa
Astronomy and cosmology, spaceflight
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Galaxy Cove Vista
Russian Space Junk Almost Destroys NASA Telescope in Orbit
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
Physics, chemistry and materials science, mathematics
Researchers
find a way to make steel without greenhouse-gas emissions
A Most Profound Math Problem
Technology and engineering, robotics
High-tech camera acts like a bug's eye
Robotic Fly Takes to the Air, Briefly
Researchers develop system to clean seaweed from beaches
Computers and software, the Internet
Musicians take note of tune-writing app
Of note
A Magazine or a Living Fossil?
Fair-Trade Movement Extends to Clothing
Capitalism is killing our morals, our future
_________
A Most Profound Math Problem
Technology and engineering, robotics
High-tech camera acts like a bug's eye
Robotic Fly Takes to the Air, Briefly
Researchers develop system to clean seaweed from beaches
Computers and software, the Internet
Musicians take note of tune-writing app
Of note
A Magazine or a Living Fossil?
Fair-Trade Movement Extends to Clothing
Capitalism is killing our morals, our future
_________
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