Letter identifies specific regulations State Department officials appear to have violated WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2011.  National environmental groups today called on the State Department’s inspector general to investigate wrongdoing by department officials in its review of the proposed Keystone XLtar sands oil pipeline. The groups sent Deputy State Department Inspector[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2011.  St. Louis-based chemical and seed giant Monsanto Co. has purchased a company called Beeologics, which has developed a product intended to counteract viral agents that plague honey bee colonies in an attempt to stem the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). However, advocates wonder whether the[Read More…]

Composite tricolor images of Stephan’s Quintet using Hα filters with a recession velocity of 0 (left image) and a recession velocity of 4,200 miles per second (right image). (SUPPLIED) National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN-(ENEWSPF)- Subaru Telescope has added another dimension of information about one of the most studied of all[Read More…]

Eleven years in the life of the Sun, spanning most of solar cycle 23, as it progressed from solar minimum (upper left) to maximum conditions and back to minimum (upper right) again, seen as a collage of ten full-disk images of the lower corona. (NASA) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center-(ENEWSPF)- Telescopes[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011 Winter precipitation trends in the Mediterranean region for the period 1902 – 2010. High Resolution (Credit: NOAA) Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly responsible, according to a new analysis by NOAA scientists and colleagues at the Cooperative Institute[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011.  Pathology experts contracted by NOAA have identified the bacteria Brucella in five bottlenose dolphins that died in the northern Gulf of Mexico. These five are among the 580 dolphins in higher than expected strandings that began in February 2010 and are continuing. NOAA has declared it[Read More…]

   RALPH LEE HOPKINS – BALD EAGLE AND FULL MOON – CHILKAT RIVER: CHILKAT BALD EAGLE PRESERVE, SOUTHEAST ALASKA   San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011.   Usually, big budgets fuel major social media campaigns, but this fall’s most innovative campaign is being supported by something different: generosity. “Businesses doing good isn’t[Read More…]

Landslide on Lutetia EU–(ENEWSPF)–27 October 2011 ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has revealed asteroid Lutetia to be a primitive body, left over as the planets were forming in our Solar System. Results from Rosetta’s fleeting flyby also suggest that this mini-world tried to grow a metal heart.  Rosetta flew past Lutetia on[Read More…]

New Report Shows Lead Levels in Blood Drop 90 Percent, Trillions of Dollars Saved Worldwide NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011.  The United Nations Environment Programme today declared victory in a decade-long campaign, spanning more than 100 countries, to complete the elimination of  lead from gasoline worldwide. A new independent analysis also[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011.  Forty-seven students from Edgewood Middle School in St. Clair Township, Ohio, reportedly fell ill after the school’s hired pest control company sprayed the herbicide Momentum, which contains the toxic ingredients 2,4-D, triclopyr and clopyralid, on nearby playing fields to treat for clover and other weeds. The[Read More…]