By Ben Bowman
For the fish-loving Ethicurean, pensive while paddling a small craft through the treacherous Straits of Seafood Uncertainty, the signal ‘Safe Passage Ahead’ beamed from a passing research ship is more than enough to make the heart lift and quicken.
This was the effect on the fish-focused community two weeks ago when Science magazine published […]
The USDA stops collecting data on pesticide use. Meanwhile, researchers in India link pesticides to altered DNA and the German government blames pesticides for bee colony collapse. But no worries — just don’t think about it.
A study released last week by West Virginia scientists finds that workers who make Teflon are on the front lines of the chemical-intensive food system. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration further weakens the process used by the EPA to review chemicals in consumer products.
I am sitting in a swanky conference center on the outskirts of Phoenix, a city that may be one of our country’s least sustainable, where the water is as scarce as the SUVs and air conditioners are numerous. But for all the shortcomings of developers who thought it would be a great idea to build […]
Here’s a number to knock you out of that mid-day stupor: every year, taxpayers shell out between $7.1 billion and $8.2 billion to subsidize or clean up after our nation’s 9,900 confined animal feeding operations. That’s the finding of “CAFOs Uncovered,” a new report released earlier today by the Union of Concerned Scientists. That amount, […]
Today’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Bridget Stutchbury, a biology professor at the University of Toronto and author of Silence of the Songbirds. Her book follows in the footsteps of Silent Spring and documents the rapid disappearance of migratory songbirds — by her account, a 50% decline in the last four decades — […]
This is the debut of a sporadic digest of somewhat more weighty documents than typical digest items. The "Research" digest will include scientific papers, policy reports, and similar academic items.
Today’s edition is a collection of Congressional Research Service reports. If you have never heard of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), that’s not surprising. […]
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