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Today in History: Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space

July 25, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On July 25, 1984, Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk.

Canadian scientists protest firings, spending cuts

July 13, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Canada's government made excessive cuts in its environmental departments, resulting in the firing of many top scientists.

$Study suggests fracking wastes could poison drinking water$

Study suggests fracking wastes could poison drinking water

July 10, 2012 By Blake Skylar

According to a new scientific study, salty fluids rich with minerals in parts of Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale are seeping thousands of feet upward, right into drinking water.

For cost of 1 month of Iraq War, “God particle” could have been U.S. triumph

July 10, 2012 By Marc McDonald

The discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle is one of the biggest triumphs in the history of science.

Shell’s Arctic drilling: The environmental battle of our time

July 3, 2012 By Blake Skylar

On July 27, two Shell vessels departed from Seattle, en route to the Arctic's Beaufort and Chukchi seas -- and the fragile ecosystems that lay within.