Nutrition Mission by Kid Power, part of GSU’s Community Health Day, is a program for kids featuring 3-D visual effects and a healthy eating message. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Let’s all get healthy. Governors State University is sponsoring a day of activities designed to give area residents the tools[Read More…]
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CryoSat Maps Largest Ever Flood Beneath Antarctica
Site of crater EU–(ENEWSPF)–2 July 2013. ESA’s CryoSat satellite has found a vast crater in Antarctica’s icy surface. Scientists believe the crater was left behind when a lake lying under about 3 km of ice suddenly drained. Far below the thick ice sheet that covers Antarctica, there are lakes of[Read More…]
Groups Call on U.S. Companies to Reject Canadian Tar Sands
Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. Fifty eight organizations, led by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, released anopen letter today demanding that companies take climate action. The letter calls on U.S. corporations with trucking fleets join19 leading companies in avoiding[Read More…]
NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Two Human-Critical Reviews
HAWTHORNE, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., recently completed two milestones for NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers. These were the fifth and sixth milestones for SpaceX, a partner[Read More…]
Protecting Data in the Cloud
A new hardware design makes data encryption more secure by disguising cloud servers’ memory-access patterns CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. Cloud computing — outsourcing computational tasks over the Internet — could give home-computer users unprecedented processing power and let small companies launch sophisticated Web services without building massive server farms. But[Read More…]
In Wake of Massive Bee Kills, Oregon Temporarily Bans Some Pesticide Uses
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. In the wake of massive bee kills, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) is placing temporary restrictions on the use of pesticides with the active ingredient dinotefuran. Dinotefuran, a neonicotinoid pesticide, was confirmed as the cause of one massive bee die-off in Wilsonville, Oregon, and suspected[Read More…]
Energy Department Releases Draft Advanced Fossil Energy Solicitation to Support Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Pollution
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Department of Energy announced today a draft loan guarantee solicitation for innovative and advanced fossil energy projects and facilities that substantially reduce greenhouse gas and other air pollution. The Advanced Fossil Energy Projects solicitation, authorized by[Read More…]
Deaths from Prescription Painkiller Overdoses Rise Sharply Among Women
CDC study shows emergency department visits also on the rise among women Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2013. The number of prescription painkiller overdose deaths increased five fold among women between 1999 and 2010, according to a Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While men[Read More…]
Conservationists ask the Forest Service to Protect the Tongass, America’s Rainforest
175,000 public comments submitted to the Forest Service Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013. Members of the environmental community made the following statements today after the June 30 closure of the public comment period for the Tongass National Forest’s five-year review of its Land Management Plan. Members of the organizations submitting these[Read More…]
John Podesta Joins Global Ocean Commission
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 1, 2013. Today the Global Ocean Commission announced that John Podesta, Chair of the Center for American Progress and a former White House chief of staff, is joining the commission. “I am delighted to be joining the Global Ocean Commission, which I see as one of the most[Read More…]
