Science
Canadian scientists protest firings, spending cuts
July 13, 2012Canada's government made excessive cuts in its environmental departments, resulting in the firing of many top scientists.
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Study suggests fracking wastes could poison drinking water
July 10, 2012According 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.
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For cost of 1 month of Iraq War, “God particle” could have been U.S. triumph
July 10, 2012The discovery of the Higgs boson subatomic particle is one of the biggest triumphs in the history of science.
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Shell’s Arctic drilling: The environmental battle of our time
July 3, 2012On 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.
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Children and the courts
June 28, 2012We can congratulate the Supreme Court for its recent decision that sentencing children to life in prison without parole is unconstitutional.
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