"NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite"
"If the weather holds, NASA will launch its newest Earth-observing satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California late Monday morning."
Source: Climate Central, 02/11/2013
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"Minnesota Is a Hotbed for Radioactive Gas Radon"
"Officials are alarmed at the lack of awareness about the invisible gas that invades homes."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 02/11/2013
"Genetically Modified Apples Raise Concerns"
"Neal Carter wants to bring some interest and excitement to those big displays of apples in the local supermarket."
Source: Yakima Herald, 02/11/2013
"Horsemeat Scandal Blamed on International Fraud By Mafia Gangs"
"Organised criminal gangs operating internationally are suspected of playing a major role in the horsemeat scandal that has seen supermarket shelves cleared of a series of products and triggered concerns about the contamination of the UK's food chain."
Source: Guardian, 02/11/2013
"Interior Department To Investigate Coal Exports"
"The Interior Department will investigate whether mining companies are gaming the federal government by skirting royalty payments, a pair of senior senators announced Friday."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 02/11/2013
"Reflecting on an Asteroid’s Really Close Encounter with Earth"
"Amid all the progress on this planet -- declining losses from terrible diseases and war, rising literacy and the rest -- there remain plenty of planet-scale risks requiring serious focus, from pandemic flu to centuries of locked-in climate change to, yes, collisions with space rocks."
Source: Dot Earth, 02/11/2013
Farmer’s Use of GM Soybeans Grows Into Supreme Court Case
"SANDBORN, Ind. -- Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto’s pursuit of new products it says will 'feed the world.'"
Source: Wash Post, 02/11/2013
State of Union 2013: on Climate, Which Obama Will Speak Tuesday Night?
"President Barack Obama’s annual addresses to Congress offer a glimpse at a leader whose rhetoric on energy and the environment has changed dramatically over the past four years -- from his calls to pass sweeping climate legislation in 2009 to a full-throated embrace of natural gas last year."
Source: Politico, 02/11/2013
Fund for Environmental Journalism Announces Winter 2012 Grantees
SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism (FEJ) grants $12,870 to five journalism projects in the Winter 2012 cycle, to cover travel and media-production expenses for print, audio, video, and online news. Photo: Grantee William Kelly, senior correspondent, California Current.
"Racial Gaps Remain in Cancer Rates"
"Cancer death rates among African American men declined faster than those of white men in the last decade, even though overall survival rates for black men and women remained the lowest of all racial groups for most types of cancer, according to a recent report."
Source: LA Times, 02/08/2013
