“Adding to evidence that a little wine can do a heart good, a new study suggests that women who drink moderate amounts may have less inflammation in their blood vessels. Spanish researchers found that after four weeks of drinking two glasses of wine per day, women showed lower levels of certain inflammatory substances in their […]
In Florida last week children were traumatized by protocols that for two days in a row kept them locked down in schools away from their parents. The reason given? A crime had taken place that is normally handled by the police. In these cases the two separate crimes, a robbery and an escaped convict, were […]
“Produce grown in the vicinity of the UK’s nuclear installation is safe to eat and levels of radioactivity fall well below legal limits. This is the key finding of an annual report into radioactivity in the food and environment, produced by the Environment Agency and its sister agencies in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The report […]
“Microsoft and Nintendo are taking too long to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles, and TV producers Philips and Sharp have poor policies on taking back and recycling outdated products, Greenpeace said Tuesday in its latest environmental ranking of leading electronics companies. Adding the four companies to its quarterly environmental rankings, Greenpeace listed […]
“Argentinean Environment Secretary Romina Picolotti called Tuesday for a limit on Antarctic tourism following the sinking of a Canadian-operated cruise vessel off the Shetland Islands. M/S Explorer hit an iceberg before midnight of Friday, all of its 154 passengers and crew were evacuated. She told Argentinean news agency Telam, ‘The purpose of the Antarctic is […]
“We’ve all read Jim Hansen’s warning that the international community must take significant action within a decade if we wish to avoid the most dangerous consequences of global warming. Now the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has moved up the deadline. In announcing the IPCC’s final report on Nov. 16, Rajendra Pachuari […]
“Now that turkey day is behind us the holiday season is in full swing. Despite my annual Grinch-like attitude, it once again looks like Christmas threw up inside my house (thanks to my wife — she says its an addiction she’s had since childhood) and there is no shortage of holiday lights. We all have […]
“Agricultural powerhouses France and Germany sought on Monday to break the deadlock that has kept genetically modified crops out of most of Europe, saying rules must be changed to ease their approval. … The EU has not approved any new GMOs for growing since 1998, in large part because of huge public resistance to […]
“‘Who ya gonna call?’ The famous buzz phrase from the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters is being heard on the lips of Los Angeles water officials grappling with two of the driest years in the city’s history. Their answer: ‘drought busters.’ The program, which helped cut water use by about 30 percent during a drought in the […]
“Pluripotent stem cells can now be generated from cells of the ordinary connective tissue of mature humans, according to forthcoming articles in Cell and Science. … A development like this tempts one to poke fun yet again at certain religionists …. But religious fundamentalists make too easy a target. In fact, modern science and prospective […]
