The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City Development Program is a business model for green, sustainable cities worldwide RIO DE JANEIRO–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012 – The City of Rio de Janeiro and the World Bank launched today during the Rio+20 Summit a ground-breaking, city-level program to put into action the city’s[Read More…]
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Critical Cables, Wires at Nuclear Plants Are At Risk of Failure
NRDC Sees Need to Better Monitor Them, Asks NRC WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012 — Miles of vital electrical cables and wires at most of America’s 104 nuclear power plants are at risk of failure due to prolonged submersion in water or condensation, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a[Read More…]
Weight-loss Surgery Increases Alcohol Use Disorders Over Time
NIH-funded study sheds light on risk of bariatric procedures Bethesda, Mayland–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Adults who had a common bariatric surgery to lose weight had a significantly higher risk of alcohol use disorders (AUD) two years after surgery, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research consortium. Researchers[Read More…]
Nuclear Watchdog Petitions Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Require Relicensing of Faulty San Onofre Reactors
Friends of the Earth alleges Edison misled NRC on replacement steam generators WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Friends of the Earth today filed a legal petition to require the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep the crippled reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down until and unless their[Read More…]
ESA Tests Self-steering Rover in ‘Mars’ Desert
ESA rover in Atacama Desert EU–(ENEWSPF)–18 June 2012. ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Chile’s Mars-like Atacama Desert. The recent test of the[Read More…]
Take Action! New Farm Bill Amendments Attack Your Health and Environment
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 18, 2012. Once again, attempts to repeal the Clean Water Act permits for pesticide discharges are underway in Congress. This week the 2012 Farm Bill will be introduced to the Senate floor where measures to attack environmental laws have been added unceremoniously to the bill, including the[Read More…]
Connecticut Organic Lawn Fertilizers in Jeopardy
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2012. At this golf course, where grass is fertilized and grown to the pond’s edge, the water is eutrified by excess phosphorus load. WHEN IT COMES TO LAWNS, FEW STATES RIVAL CONNECTICUT for the amount of passion folks can muster. It’s the richest state in the nation per[Read More…]
NASA Releases Workshop Data and Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5
Orbit and current location (6/15/2012) of asteroid 2011 AG5. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Current findings and analysis data were reported at a May 29 workshop at NASA’s Goddard Space[Read More…]
Answer Isn’t Always on the ‘Tip of the Tongue’ for Older Adults
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2012. Has your memory failed you today, such as struggling to recall a word that’s “on the tip of your tongue?” If so, you’re not alone. New University of Michigan research indicates that “tip-of-the-tongue” errors happen often to adults ages 65-92. In a study of 105[Read More…]
Fractions are the Key to Math Success, New Study Shows
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–June 15, 2012. What part of math success comes from knowing fractions? More than you might think, according to a new study that analyzed long-term data on more than 4,000 children from both the United States and the United Kingdom. Published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed[Read More…]
