Court finds oil and gas exploration permits violated federal laws ANCHORAGE, ALASKA–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013 –The federal government’s decision to allow oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s Cook Inlet violated three federal statutes, including the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act, according to an opinion issued Tuesday by U.S.[Read More…]
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Audubon Holds 10th anniversary Women in Conservation Luncheon presenting 2013 Rachel Carson Awards
Marian S. Heiskell and Lady Bird Johnson awarded prestigious conservation recognition (Photo Credit: Patrick McMullan) New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013. The National Audubon Society (@audubonsociety) celebrated the legacy of female leadership in conservation by presenting two lifelong conservation champions with Audubon’s Rachel Carson Award yesterday at the Plaza Hotel[Read More…]
Toyota and Audubon Invite Americans to Exit the Highway This Summer and Spend More Time in Nature
Exit the Highway Weekend June 1 Kicks Off Nature and Wildlife Awareness Program; New Interactive Map Offers Summer Travel Destinations New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013. With summer just days away, there’s no better time to start exploring nature. Today, Toyota and the National Audubon Society announced the launch of Exit[Read More…]
Actor Jaden Smith Focuses on Earth Science in a New NASA PSA
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013. Jaden Smith, star of Columbia Pictures’ movie “After Earth,” is featured in a new NASA public service announcement that describes the contributions of the agency’s Earth science program to environmental awareness and exploration of our home planet. The public service announcement features imagery from “After Earth” as[Read More…]
NASA’s WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013. Data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers used millions of infrared snapshots from the asteroid-hunting portion of the WISE all-sky survey, called NEOWISE, to identify 28[Read More…]
City of Cambridge, MIT, Harvard launch history ‘Community Compact for a Sustainable Future’
Public-private initiative aims to leverage intellectual, entrepreneurial capacity to spur innovative solutions to environmental challenges such as climate change CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–May 30. 2013. The City of Cambridge, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology today signed a historic “Community Compact for a Sustainable Future” aimed at leveraging the intellectual and[Read More…]
Seven Former Presidents, Richard Branson and Other World Leaders: Criminalization of Drug Use Fuelling the Global Hepatitis C Viral Time Bomb
Global Commission on Drug Policy Calls for Decriminalization of Drug Use and Expansion of Proven, science-based Solutions to Reduce Hepatitis C – Including Sterile Syringe Access, Safer Injection Facilities and Prescription Heroin Programs. Drug War Policies in U.S., Russia, and China Cause Millions of Needless Infections – globally, 10 out[Read More…]
Study Shows Pesticides Dramatically Increase Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2013. New research published in the journal Neurology further supports the causative link between pesticide exposure and Parkinson’s disease. Emanuel Cereda, M.D., Ph.D., of the IRCCS university Hospital San Matteo Foundation in Pavia, Italy, and coauthor Gianni Pezzoli, M.D., analyzed 104 studies published between 1975 and 2011[Read More…]
FDA Approves Two Drugs, Companion Diagnostic Test for Advanced Skin Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2013. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved two new drugs, Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib), for patients with advanced (metastatic) or unresectable (cannot be removed by surgery) melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. Melanoma is the leading cause of death from skin[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Debuts HealthyChildren.org in Spanish
Elk Grove Village, IL–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2013. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced today the launch of HealthyChildren.org en Español (www.healthychildren.org/Espanol), a website backed by 60,000 pediatricians providing support, resources and a host of features to enable Hispanic parents to quickly find important and trusted child health information in Spanish.[Read More…]
