Wildlife and habitat

Study: Dead trees did not fuel wildfires
Canada: Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed
Oregon Dead Zone Blamed on Climate Change
Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger
Don’t Expect New Marine Sanctuaries Under Obama

Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
Alaska Sea Otters Granted Critical Habitat Protection
Study: Endangered AK beluga whale group declining
Icelandic Whaling Condemned by 26 Countries
How cities drive plants extinct
Salazar Presents Ambitious Plan to Manage Wild Horses
Pennsylvania: Toxins tied to fish kill may have hitchhiked on drilling equipment
    Related: With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces Flood of Wastewater
                     NYC warns that Catskill gas drilling could pollute drinking water
                     Wyoming: What Oil & Gas Drilling Looks Like from the Air (video)
Yellowstone wolf packs differ from others
    Related: Old wolves need younger hunters to thrive
                     Wardens wipe out wolf pack
                     The wolf hunt may be a temporary experiment (opinion)
Give forests back to local people to save them
Palm oil industry pledges wildlife corridors to save orangutans
Scientists race to prevent ash tree's extinction
    Related: New strategies target emerald ash borer
Preble's meadow jumping mouse could get more protected space
In Aspen, it's the year of the bear -- Disturbances and attacks on the rise
'The Hidden Life of Deer' (book review)

Discoveries about the natural world

Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism In Soil-dwelling Creatures Of The Past
Monkey Moms Act Like Human Moms
Pigs use mirrors
Loyal Alligators Display Mating Habits Of Birds
Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods
Old wolves need younger hunters to thrive

Albatross snags scraps from killer whale
Dragonfly Nymph Attacks Pregnant Mussels
Homebound Termites Answer 150-Year-Old Evolution Question
Inside the first bird, surprising signs of a dinosaur
Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

Worst Volcanoes Even More Dangerous Than Feared

Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners

Weather and climate

Just How Sensitive Is Earth's Climate to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide?
Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans
Australia: Nutrient-rich topsoil from dust storm tripled number of microscopic ocean plants
Nitrogen Deposition Limits Climate Change Impacts On Carbon Sequestration
Volcanic eruptions may have thawed ice age

Environmental policy

The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use (opinion)
A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth (opinion)

Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis

EPA: Virginia, other states could face punishments over bay cleanup
    Related: Facing Facts in the Chesapeake Bay

Energy

Why the 'peak oil' debate is irrelevant
GAO report poses tough questions for ethanol
U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah
Dow Unveils Solar Shingles

Chemical concerns, waste management, recycling

Concerned About BPA: Check Your Receipts (!)
U.S. EPA Probes Herbicide Atrazine for Human Health Threats
EPA Promoting Coal Ash For Consumer Use (PEER)
Melting glaciers bring 1980s pollution revival

Landscape architecture, planning, green building

Communing with nature, the cure for bad behavior?
The growing beauty of green architecture (photos)
    More info: Vegetation on building facades: ‘‘Bioshader"  (PDF)

Agriculture and food, livestock and pets

Mercury in fish seems to raise blood pressure in spite of nutrients
Healthy Foods Carry Hidden Dangers, New Study Finds
    More info: Ten Riskiest Foods Regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Arsenic in rice
Helping Crops Shed Pesticides
Higher folates, not antioxidants, can reduce hearing loss risk in men

Michigan: Law protects farm-animal rights

Health and medicine, human behavior

More Care Isn't Necessarily Better For You: The Telltale Wombs Of Lewiston, Maine
Specialty Hospitals Cherry-pick Patients, Exaggerate Success, Experts Say
U.S. Losing Ground on Preventable Deaths -- Trails Other Wealthy Countries
That'll Be $418 For Use of the Examining Room -- 'Facility Fees' Are Surprising Many Patients
Costs of expanding health care coverage partly offset by future Medicare savings
Many Doctors Still Don't Disclose Consulting Fees

Virus discovery called breakthrough in fight against chronic fatigue syndrome
New Link Found Between Osteoporosis And Celiac Disease
Key Mechanism In Brain Development Pinpointed, Raising Question About Use Of Antiseizure Drug
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis May Involve A Form Of Sudden, Rapid Aging Of The Immune System
Common Herbicides And Fibrates Block Nutrient-sensing Receptor Found In Gut And Pancreas
Shingles raises risk of stroke
Parasite bacteria may help fight spread of mosquito-borne diseases
Proportion of 8-year-olds diagnosed with autism is up 50% in 2 years, CDC says
Rapid DNA Detection Quickly Diagnoses Infections
Is Life Expectancy Reduced by a Traumatic Childhood?
Biological Clocks Discovery Overturns Long-held Theory

Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zone

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
Study: Body posture affects confidence in your own thoughts
Buying Green Can Be License For Bad Behavior, Study Finds
The Same Color Illusion
(I couldn't believe this until I cut out a bit of each square in an image editor and compared them)
    Related: Illusions: What's in a face?

Law

CSI: Doodle – lie detection through art

Archeology, art and history

How We Lost Our Diversity
The Fall Of The Maya
Tsunami may have inspired Atlantis legend
Mini-Stonehenge Found: Crematorium on Stonehenge Road?
The Newark Earthworks-Ohio's world-class archaeological site
The Athenians: Another warning from history? (book review)

Old Testament scholar says Bible has been wrongly translated for thousands of years

National security, defense

Afghan War Debate Now Leans to Focus on Al Qaeda
    Related: Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages
U.S. Push to Expand in Pakistan Meets Resistance
Soldiers' Data Still Being Downloaded Overseas, Firm Says

Astronomy and cosmology, spaceflight

High-Energy Cosmic Rays Reach a Space Age Peak
NASA telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn
Ice confirmed on an asteroid
New Aluminum-water Rocket Propellant Promising For Future Space Missions

Physics, chemistry and materials science, mathematics

Wi-Fi signals can see through walls
Nanometric Butterfly Wings Created

Technology and engineering, robotics

Filming photons, one million times a second

Computers and software, the Internet

Teaching computers how to watch television

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