MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2011. Blaming bad weather, the leader of the world’s largest lawn chemical company announced this morning that Scotts Miracle-Gro earnings slipped 37 percent from May through July. The value of the publicly traded company has likewise plummeted during that same period, from a high of $60.62 per share[Read More…]
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MIT researchers reconstruct Baja California’s 2010 ‘Easter Earthquake’
Cambridge, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 8, 2011. On April 4, 2010, the ground beneath the deserts of Baja California started to rumble, then rip apart, sending tremors throughout a region 40 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. In the months that followed, the 7.2-magnitude quake — the second-strongest ever recorded in Baja California[Read More…]
DuPont To Issue Recall of Pesticide Linked to Tree Deaths
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August, 8, 2011. In a move that highlights serious concerns regarding the pesticide registration process, DuPont has announced that it plans to issue a total recall of its new herbicide, Imprelis, following widespread evidence and complaints that the product has caused the deaths of trees around the country. After[Read More…]
Iowa Start-up May Be ‘America’s Next Top Energy Innovator’
Company Licenses Technology from Ames Laboratory to Produce Titanium Powder for Use in Military, Biomedical and Aerospace Components Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—August 5, 2011. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu yesterday announced that an Iowa based start-up company has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s “America’s Next Top[Read More…]
Medi-Pot Most Often Consumed For Pain, Muscle Spasms, Study Says
“These data suggest that the patient population has evolved from mostly HIV/AIDS and cancer patients to a significantly more diverse array” Santa Cruz, CA–(ENEWSPF)–August 5, 2011. Patients in California with a physician’s recommendation are predominantly using cannabis to treat symptoms of pain, insomnia, and anxiety, according to population data published[Read More…]
Thorn Creek Audubon Society to Hold Two Hummingbird Events
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—August 4, 2011. On Wednesday, September 7 at 7pm, Thorn Creek Audubon Society will sponsor a slide program on hummingbirds and hummingbird festivals in Illinois. Vernon Kleen, a retired avian ecologist, will explain the status of hummingbirds in Illinois, hummingbird banding, and what happens at hummingbird festivals. The[Read More…]
Cleaning Up Nigerian Oil Pollution Could Take 30 Years, Cost Billions of Dollars – UN
NIGERIA–(ENEWSPF)–4 August 2011. The environmental restoration of Nigeria’s Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world’s most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a United Nations report released today.[Read More…]
NOAA-Supported Scientists Find Large Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2011. NOAA-supported scientists found the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be 6,765 square miles. Researchers had predicted the potential for a record sized dead zone between 8,500 and 9,421 square miles due to the spring flooding of the Mississippi River and the[Read More…]
NOAA’s Atlantic Hurricane Season Update Calls for Increase in Named Storms
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2011. NOAA issued its updated 2011 Atlantic hurricane season outlook today raising the number of expected named storms from its pre-season outlook issued in May. Forecasters also increased their confidence that 2011 will be an active Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the[Read More…]
100+ Groups from 23 States File Petition for Drilling and Fracking Chemical Testing, Info
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 4 – A large coalition of public health, environmental, and good government groups filed a petition (PDF) today demanding that full health and safety information be made available for all of the chemicals used in oil and gas development, including the controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”[Read More…]
