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…]
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California: Attorney General, Lawmakers Criticize Federal Government’s Crackdown On State’s Medical Marijuana Providers
“I urge the federal government to stand down in its massive attack on medical marijuana dispensaries,” state senator says Sacramento, CA–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. State Attorney General Kamala Harris has called on US Department of Justice officials to limit their ongoing actions against medical cannabis providers in California. In a statement[Read More…]
Subaru’s 3-D View of Stephan’s Quintet
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…]
A Solar Cycle Primer
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…]
Human-Caused Climate Change a Major Factor in More Frequent Mediterranean Droughts
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…]
NOAA Finds Bacterial Infection as Cause of Death for Five Northern Gulf Dolphins; Investigation Continues
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…]
Generosity – Yes, Generosity – Fuels Cutting-Edge Audubon Social Media Campaign
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…]
First Patient Receives Novel Gene Therapy for Type of Blindness
United Kingdom–(ENEWSPF)–27 October 2011. The first patient to receive gene therapy for an incurable type of blindness was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford this week as part of a trial led by Oxford University. If successful, the advance could lead to the first-ever treatment for choroideraemia, a[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Opposes Unnecessary Cuts to Benefits, Proposes Modernizing the Health Care System
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 27, 2011. As sources suggest that Democrats on the Super Committee are proposing $400 billion in cuts to Medicare—$200 billion in cuts to benefits, and $200 billion in cuts to providers, the Center for American Progress released a package of reforms to modernize the health care payment and[Read More…]
Asteroid Lutetia: Postcard From the Past
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…]
