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Global Warming Will Open Unexpected New Shipping Routes in Arctic, Researchers Find
March 4, 2013 Shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean won't put the Suez and Panama canals out of business anytime soon, but global warming will make these frigid routes much more accessible than ever imagined by ... > full story -
A Billion Deaths from Tobacco Are a Key Obstacle to Global Development
March 4, 2013 If the word's nations are going to prevent tobacco smoking from causing one projected billion deaths by the end of this century, they must classify tobacco marketing as a threat to public health, ... > full story -
Shark Fisheries Globally Unsustainable: 100 Million Sharks Die Every Year
March 1, 2013 The world’s shark populations are experiencing significant declines with perhaps 100 million – or more - sharks being lost every year, according to a new ... > full story -
U.S. May Face Inevitable Nuclear Power Exit
March 1, 2013 In the third and final issue in a series focused on nuclear exits, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, turns its attention to the United States and looks at whether the ... > full story -
Pharmaceutical Companies: An $84 Million Marketing Effort in the District of Columbia
March 1, 2013 Drug companies spent nearly $84 million marketing pharmaceuticals in the District of Columbia in 2011, including an outlay of nearly $19 million for gifts given to physicians, hospitals and ... > full story -
New Marine Species Discovered in Pacific Ocean
February 28, 2013 An international expedition in Papua New Guinea has found a new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like ... > full story -
Global Tipping Point Not Backed by Science, Experts Argue
February 28, 2013 A group of international ecological scientists have rejected a doomsday-like scenario of sudden, irreversible change to the Earth's ecology. In a new paper, the scientists from Australia, the United ... > full story -
A Game Plan for Climate Change
February 27, 2013 Researchers have successfully piloted a process that enables natural resource managers to take action to conserve particular wildlife, plants and ecosystems as climate ... > full story -
Global Surveys Show Environment Ranks Low Among Public Concerns
February 25, 2013 A newly released international study reveals that the issue of climate change is not a priority for people in the United States and around the world. The surveys showed that when asked to rank ... > full story -
New Maps Depict Potential Worldwide Coral Bleaching by 2056
February 25, 2013 New maps by scientists show how rising sea temperatures are likely to affect all coral reefs in the form of annual coral bleaching events under different emission scenarios. If carbon emissions stay ... > full story
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