Massive tourism developments threaten fragile ecosystems and endangered species San Francisco, U.S.A. / La Paz, Mexico–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. In a petition submitted to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation today, eleven conservation groups charged the Mexican government with failing to enforce its own environmental laws in authorizing the construction of four[Read More…]
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New Overdose Prevention Bill Passes with Bipartisan Support in California Assembly Health Committee
Public Health Advocates and Families Urge California Assembly Appropriations Committee to Pass New Overdose Prevention Bill SACRAMENTO–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. In a showing of bipartisan support yesterday, the Assembly Health Committee voted in favor of Asm. Richard Bloom’s (D-Santa Monica) AB 831, a bill that would require a temporary state task[Read More…]
NIH Trial Shows Promising Results in Treating a Lymphoma in Young People
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. Patients with a type of cancer known as primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma who received infusions of chemotherapy, but who did not have radiation therapy to an area of the thorax known as the mediastinum, had excellent outcomes, according to clinical trial results. Until now, most standard[Read More…]
New Software Could Alleviate Wireless Traffic
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. The explosive popularity of wireless devices—from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes—is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections. New software being developed at the University of Michigan works like a stoplight to control the traffic and[Read More…]
Brain Scans Reveal First Objective Measure of Physical Pain
Neurologic signature for physical pain. Image courtesy: Tor Wager, Colorado University ANN ARBOR—For the first time, scientists have identified how much pain people feel by looking at images of their brains. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, may lead to the development of methods doctors can[Read More…]
At Congressional Hearing, Coal Ash Bill Fails on All Fronts
House subcommittee hearing considers “unprecedented” bill that cannot protect public health Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. A House subcommittee heard today from coal ash experts who reiterated that legislation proposed last year by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV, 1st) would not provide the minimum standards “necessary to protect human health and the[Read More…]
Explosive Crater Twins on Mars
Arima twins EU–(ENEWSPF)–11 April 2013. Dramatic underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, are responsible for the pits inside these two large martian impact craters, imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 4 January. The ‘twin’ craters are in the Thaumasia Planum region, a large plateau that lies immediately to the south of[Read More…]
NOAA Retires Polar-orbiting Satellite
Satellite exceeded anticipated lifespan by eight years After nearly 11 years of helping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predict weather and climate patterns and save lives in search and rescue operations, NOAA announced today it has turned off the NOAA-17 Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). It was one of[Read More…]
Early Warning Signs of Population Collapse
Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. Many factors — including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply — can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists have long sought ways[Read More…]
Islands in the Rain
Researchers use volcanic islands to measure how rainfall sets the pace of landscape formation CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–April 11, 2013. If you’ve ever stood on a hill during a rainstorm, you’ve probably witnessed landscape evolution, at least on a small scale: rivulets of water streaming down a slope, cutting deeper trenches in[Read More…]
