Paris, France–(ENEWSPF)–18 August 2011 Use red/blue stereo glasses to watch Half a century after humankind entered outer space, an ESA-developed camera produced live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel – showing the International Space Station like never before. On 6 August, NASA astronaut[Read More…]
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NIH Blueprint Empowers Drug Development for Nervous System Disorders
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011. The National Institutes of Health has made awards to investigators across the United States for an ambitious set of projects seeking to develop new drugs for disorders of the nervous system. The projects — aimed at treating conditions such as vision loss, neurodegenerative disease and depression[Read More…]
Cigarette Smoking Implicated in Half of Bladder Cancers in Women
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011. Current cigarette smokers have a higher risk of bladder cancer than previously reported, and the risk in women is now comparable to that in men, according to a study by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The report[Read More…]
The Frankenlawn Update: Where’s the Outcry to Stop Genetically Modified Grass Seed?
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011. The approval of genetically modified (GMO) grass seed, or more correctly stated “the news of the approval,” is apparently having the muted impact it intended. Announced by the United States Department Agriculture back on the afternoon of July 1 — when most people were shopping for beer[Read More…]
Pesticide Implicated in Great Barrier Reef Degredation Receives Extension
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011. A new report by the Australian government finds that agricultural pesticides are severely damaging the Great Barrier Reef; despite this fact, sugarcane growers have been allowed a six week extension to continue to use the weed killer diuron, which was intially set to be suspended for[Read More…]
Reps Call on Agencies to Protect Water, Health, Wildlife from Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2011. Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, and Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), the Ranking Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water and Power, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service[Read More…]
Doctors Favor Lawn Pesticide Bans
CANADA–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2011. British Columbia Premier Christy Clark and Opposition Leader Adrian Dix are to be commended for supporting a province-wide ban on the sale and use of lawn and garden pesticides. Not only will this legislation be hugely popular, it will also have a very positive effect on the health[Read More…]
Another Earthquake, 6.2 Magnitude, Off East Coast of Honshu, Japan
Honshu, Japan-(ENEWSPF)- The seabed has not settled off the coast of Honshu, Japan. Yet another substantial earthquake has struck, this one registring 6.2 magnitude on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:44:07 UTC, 06:44:07 AM(CDT) – Central Daylight (Chicago), at a depth of 37 km (23.0 miles). The epicenter was 304[Read More…]
UN Warns of Rising Death Rates Among Somali Children as Disease Takes a Toll
Somalia–(ENEWSPF)–16 August 2011. A group of Somali women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia Death rates among Somali refugees who have entered Ethiopia to seek succour from famine has reached alarming levels, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, saying that while[Read More…]
New Poll Finds Powerful Opposition to Mountaintop Removal Mining in the Heart of Coal Country
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2011. Today, the Appalachian Mountain Advocates (formerly the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment), Earthjustice and the Sierra Club released a poll that surveyed voters in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee to measure public opinions on the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining and clean[Read More…]
