On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Fifty years ago on a mid-December day, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet[Read More…]
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Venus Transit And Lunar Mirror Could Help Astronomers Find Worlds Around Other Stars
The Transit of Venus of 6 June 2012, as seen from Wiltshire in the UK. Image: Grant Privett Astronomical Observatory of Trieste-(ENEWSPF)- On 6 June 2012 Venus passed directly between the Earth and the Sun, in a so-called transit where the planet appears as a silhouette against the solar disk,[Read More…]
Light Pollution Report Reveals Environmental Impacts
Toronto, Canada-(ENEWSPF)- While awareness of man-made pollutants and their environmental impact may be rising exponentially, one source of contamination remains largely unaddressed. Light pollution is the wasteful and obtrusive emission of artificial light, and it can have disastrous consequences for the affected local environments. And it not only disrupts animal populations, wastes[Read More…]
NOAA Explorers Discover Deepwater Gas Seeps Off U.S. Atlantic Coast
Advanced sonar technology is key to discovery and mapping View of 17 deepwater gas plumes identified east of Cape Henry, VA from information derived from an advanced multibeam sonar built into the hull of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Red cylinders have been added to show seafloor seep locations at the[Read More…]
Audubon Annual Count in Central Park Finds 5,721 Birds
389 Tufted Titmice, 11 Red-tailed Hawks, But No Partridge in a Pear Tree Tufted Titmous (Robert Burton, USFWS) New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–December 20, 2012. Seventy-three intrepid volunteers spent last Sunday morning counting birds in New York City’s Central Park, where the 113th annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count began on December[Read More…]
Take Care of Your Heart When Shoveling Snow
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–December 20, 2012. Shoveling snow in frigid temps is a risky combination for heart disease patients As Chicago and much of the Midwest gears up for its first major snowfall of the season, Northwestern Medicine® cardiovascular experts are urging people, particularly those with known heart disease, to take caution when[Read More…]
San Francisco To Release Innovative Design Guidelines to Build Out Pests
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 20, 2012. A preliminary version of Pest Prevention by Design, authored by Chris A. Geiger, Ph.D. and Caroline Cox of the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), was recently released by the San Francisco Department of the Environment (DOE). These guidelines, which will formally be released in mid-January of[Read More…]
FDA Warns Against Improper Advertising, Promotion of Lasers Intended for LASIK Corrective Eye Surgery
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2012. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned five eye care providers to stop the misleading advertising and promotion of refractive lasers used in eye surgery procedures such as LASIK. The FDA found that the providers’ advertisements and promotional materials did not offer consumers adequate[Read More…]
Regular Marijuana Use by Teens Continues to Be a Concern
NIDA’s 2012 Monitoring the Future survey shows rates stable or down for most drugs Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2012. Continued high use of marijuana by the nation’s eighth, 10th and 12th graders combined with a drop in perceptions of its potential harms in this year’s Monitoring the Future survey, an annual[Read More…]
Report Cites Multiple Causes, including Pesticides, of Declines in Bee Population
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2012. The Congressional Research Service’s (CRS) issued its overview report, Bee Health: The Role of Pesticides, in response to a congressional request for more information on the connection between declines in bee populations, colony collapse disorder (CCD) and pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids. The 23-page report, dated December 11,[Read More…]
