Science

$Study suggests fracking wastes could poison drinking water$

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.

Children and the courts

June 28, 2012 By Thomas Riggins

We can congratulate the Supreme Court for its recent decision that sentencing children to life in prison without parole is unconstitutional.

Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists

June 12, 2012 By Blake Skylar

After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.