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The Road to Fukushima: The Nuclear Industry's Wrong Turn11 Apr, 2011 10:32 am Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry turn its...Good News for Himalayan Glaciers, Bad News for the IPCC25 Jan, 2010 04:24 pm The good news (if fleeting) is that Himalayan Glaciers, while retreating like most glaciers across the globe, will still be intact in 2035...Coal - fuel of the future?14 Dec, 2009 04:38 pm Two pieces of news provide evidence of a fightback by coal. American Electric Power's Mountaineer plant in West Virginia is reporting significant success...COP15: The Time is Now9 Dec, 2009 02:08 pm In spite of the recent weeks of roller coaster-like expectations for a positive outcome from the COP15 climate conference that got underway Monday,...Sceptic Ian Plimer on global warming: "my theories are more evocative and sensual"8 Dec, 2009 10:57 am Professor Ian Plimer is one of the most influential global warming sceptics. A university academic in Australia, his trenchant views on climate change...Gazprom Comes to the U.S.18 Nov, 2009 06:51 pm For several years, Gazprom has had surpassingly bad PR -- worse even than Exxon, which since the 19th century heyday of John D..."Cancelling the Yucca Mountain repository will throw the entire nuclear waste management program into doubt"15 Jun, 2009 09:33 pm Following the Obama administration's decision to end the planning for Yucca Mountain, Nev., as the final repository for high-level radioactive material...Nanoparticles come at the top of occupational chemical risks22 Apr, 2009 09:10 pm It is estimated that each year there are 74,000 work-related deaths linked to hazardous substances encountered in the workplace...Yucca Mountain: Natural Zeolite to Prevent Nuclear Leakage.4 Dec, 2008 09:24 pm The long term security of the Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear waste will depend on a complex interplay between human engineering and natural...More "Anti-Science" McCarthyism7 Jul, 2008 09:14 am Good grief, there they go again. If you disagree with the progressive political view, er, I mean, the "scientific consensus,...John McCain on Energy Policy23 May, 2008 02:00 pm Senator McCain in North Bend, Washington on May 13 discussing energy policy and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.The Costs of Major Energy Accidents, 1907 to 200729 Apr, 2008 12:11 pm Conventional energy technologies-- namely nuclear, coal, oil, gas, and hydroelectric power generators-- may kill more people than you think.Could Cosmic Rays cause Global Warming?18 Apr, 2008 06:57 pm The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has come to the conclusion that it is 90% probable that global warming is caused by man made greenhouse...David vs. Goliath: The Emerging Climate Fault Line15 Apr, 2008 07:15 pm A new fault line has emerged in the climate movement amidst a firestorm of debate over the past week. On one side is a group of old-guard and well-known...Are the IPCC Scenarios "Unreachable?": An Interview with Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr.3 Apr, 2008 11:33 am Scitizen has a 3-question interview with Roger Pielke, Jr., whose letter in this week's Nature with Tom Wigley and Christopher Green explains why they...The Last Gasp of the Climate Deniers, Detractors and Doomsayers?26 Mar, 2008 11:28 am With the science of climate change pretty solidly unimpeachable* at this point, the rag tag camp of climate change deniers, detractors,...UK May Struggle to Meet Electricity Demands4 Mar, 2008 09:59 am A gap between demand and supply for electricity may strike the UK within 5 - 7 years, coinciding with the likely arrival of peak oil...Spatial Pattern and Mechanism of Heat Content Change in the North Atlantic5 Feb, 2008 04:30 pm Parts of the Earth?s climate system are clearly changing through anthropogenic forcing: a rise in surface and atmospheric temperatures,...Human Development Report 2007 - Interview with Mary Robinson14 Jan, 2008 12:09 pm Interview with Mary Robinson, former UN Human Rights Commission talking about climate change as a human right.Philippine Oil Palm Cultivation Raises Food Concerns2 Jan, 2008 11:22 am Al Jazeera's Marqa Ortigas in the Southern Philippines reports on how the palm oil industry has raised fear for local food supplies and sustainable practiceFast-Rising Sea Levels in the Red Sea26 Dec, 2007 03:16 pm Scitizen interviews Dr Eelco Rohling, who, along with colleagues, studied the changes in salinity of Red Sea water. Their research illustrates that ,...Bali Conference: Feinstein on Final Negotiations17 Dec, 2007 11:05 am US Green Party member Mike Feinstein reports on the controverisal breakdown of negotations on the final morning of the United Nations Framework Convention...Australian Boost for Kyoto12 Dec, 2007 10:56 am Kevin Rudd, Australia's new prime minister, has formally handed over the papers for his country's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change...Bali Climate Change Conference: Clarification on Emission Reductions11 Dec, 2007 10:45 am Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary for the UNFCCC, clarifies the situation regarding emission reductions.A Vaccine for Cancer12 Nov, 2007 10:21 am Efforts to train the immune system to attack cancer cells has been met with limited success, mainly because the immune system recognizes cancer cells as...The 2007 IPCC Assessment Process - Its Obvious Conflict of Interest27 Sep, 2007 01:13 pm If, instead of evaluating research in climate, suppose a group of scientists introduced a new cancer drug that they claimed could save many lives. There...Predicting the Climate for the Next 10 years10 Sep, 2007 02:40 pm We live in a changing climate. The latest assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts widespread warming by the 2080s in...Did you come across nanobots lately?18 Jul, 2007 02:36 pm 20 years after futurist K. Eric Drexler?s book ?Engines of Creation? describing the possibility for self-reproducing nano robots,...[Video] IPCC Working Group II Report: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability16 May, 2007 03:41 pm The live report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II. Headed by Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri. A one hour 6 part series...A Condensed Look at ?Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Faster Than Forecast??7 May, 2007 12:31 pm A new study indicates that the Arctic Ocean is losing its sea ice cover faster than is captured by the most advanced models used in the 2007 report by...Beyond climate change19 Feb, 2007 11:24 am The recent fourth assessment report on climate change released by Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a milestone...IPCC Report Now Available for Download8 Feb, 2007 09:39 am The Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WGI Fourth Assessment Report (released on 2 February 2007 in Paris) is now...Introduction to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change30 Jan, 2007 04:06 pm The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release this week (in Paris) an important report: "a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the...Identification of Step in Flu Virus Replication Supports Development of New Vaccines28 Dec, 2006 12:28 pm As public health officials around the world keep a nervous eye on the spread of avian influenza H5N1, scientists are focusing on vaccine development...?It looks like the H5N1 viruses can?t easily successfully switch genes with human flu viruses: that?s reassuring!?11 Sep, 2006 11:44 am Researchers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, USA, have combined bird and human flu viruses in order to create a pandemic...?It?s just the excitement of the quest to not only find a planet that would be truly attractive and habitable, but one that has life?26 Jul, 2006 04:07 pm Webster Cash recently reported a new method to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a space Telescope associated with a special shape occulter..."Simply Put, the Earth 3C Warmer Would Be a Different Planet Than the One that We Know"18 Jun, 2006 01:06 pm James E. Hansen is the lead climate scientist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science. He comments for Scitizen on a draft report...Big hope for the production of Tamiflu - a bird flu drug - on large scale1 Jun, 2006 06:00 pm Elias Corey, professor at Harvard University and Nobel Prize winner in 1990 for chemical synthesis, is co-author of a letter published in the Journal of...?This virus is very unusual in its high virulence for a broad spectrum of animals that occasionally includes humans?31 May, 2006 06:50 pm Earl Brown, professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, Canada, reviews for Scitizen what we know and what we ignore about the Avian...H5N1 vaccines- how good is good enough?12 Apr, 2006 06:56 pm A number of human clinical trials of H5N1 vaccines are in various stages of completion. Although vital tools to combat the possibilty of pandemic influenza... |