Sequencing of 57 Prostate Cancer Genomes Shows Cancer Gains Powerful Advantage with Abrupt Intervals of Complex, Large Scale DNA Reshuffling NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013 — Cancer is typically thought to develop after genes gradually mutate over time, finally overwhelming the ability of a cell to control growth. But a new[Read More…]
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Conservation Groups Challenge TVA’s Expensive Decision on Gallatin Plant
Environmental impacts of retrofitting aging coal facility not addressed Nashville, TN–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013. Conservation groups have filed a legal challenge to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on the grounds that TVA violated the National Environmental Policy Act when the federal power company finalized its plan to spend more than one[Read More…]
Nearly 1.5 Million Objections to Genetically Engineered Salmon Filed With FDA
Previously undisclosed documents reveal requests by several companies to obtain government approval to grow controversial salmon in U.S. facilities WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013. Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, and Food & Water Watch will join nearly 1.5 million people who have raised vehement objections, based on[Read More…]
Global Experts Agree Action Needed on Space Debris
Concept for future deorbit mission EU–(ENEWSPF)–25 April 2013. There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments, Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference announced today. The findings from the 6th European Conference on Space Debris were released during the concluding[Read More…]
Obama Administration Announces 21 Million Acre Oil and Gas Lease Sale Offshore Texas
August Auction to offer all Unleased Acreage in Western Gulf of Mexico WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013. As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management and Bureau of Ocean[Read More…]
New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life “flow” battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid. The research, led by Yi Cui, a Stanford associate[Read More…]
New Report Calls Into Question the Use of Nanomaterials in Our Food Chain
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2013. A new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) finds that nanomaterials added to soil via fertilizers and treated sewage waste used to fertilize fields could threaten soil health necessary to keep land productive. The report, Nanomaterials in Soil: Our Future Food[Read More…]
Spectacular – NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 23 Years: Sees Horsehead of a Different Color (Story/Image/Video)
Horsehead Nebula, Barnard 33. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory’s launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Looking[Read More…]
HHS Releases Blueprint to Advance Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care
New standards will help organizations improve quality of care and reduce health disparities Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2013. Health and Human Services (HHS) today released enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care – a blueprint to help organizations improve health care quality in[Read More…]
Air Pollution Linked to Hardening of the Arteries
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 24, 2013. Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or “hardening of the arteries,” according to a University of Michigan public health researcher and colleagues from across the U.S. Sara Adar, the John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology[Read More…]
