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Sequester Has Minimal Impact on Federal Regulatory Spending, New Report Finds
July 23, 2013 Automatic federal budget cuts, known as the sequester, which began March 1, have had minimal impact on federal regulatory agencies, finds a new report on the U.S. budget for fiscal years 2013 and ... > full story -
Populations of Grassland Butterflies Decline Almost 50 Percent Over Two Decades: European Report
July 23, 2013 Grassland butterflies have declined dramatically between 1990 and 2011. This has been caused by intensifying agriculture and a failure to properly manage grassland ecosystems, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate Threatens Food Security of Pacific Islands
July 22, 2013 Isolated in the middle of the ocean, Pacific islands rely closely on fishing for their economy and food security. But global warming could considerably reduce their accessible fish resources over the ... > full story -
Current Efforts Will Not Save the World's Most Endangered Cat
July 21, 2013 Almost 100 million euros has been spent so far on conservation efforts for the last 250 remaining Iberian lynxes in the wild. But the charismatic species is likely to go extinct within 50 years ... > full story -
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Internet's Backbone Can Readily Be Made More Sustainable, Experts Say
July 19, 2013 The US Department of Energy has announced that it wants to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for all computers and servers sold in the United States. A new study shows that large server ... > full story -
A Constitutional Right to Health Care: Many Countries Have It, but Not the U.S.
July 19, 2013 More than half of the world's countries have some degree of a guaranteed, specific right to public health and medical care for their citizens written into their national constitutions. The United ... > full story -
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Widely Used Pesticide Toxic to Honeybees
July 18, 2013 New research concludes that the absence of mortality does not always indicate functional ... > full story -
European Fish Stocks Poised for Recovery
July 18, 2013 The results of a major international effort to assess the status of dozens of European fish stocks find that many of those stocks in the northeast Atlantic are being fished sustainably today and ... > full story -
Reclassification of Cannabis Linked to Cannabis Psychosis
July 18, 2013 Researchers have demonstrated that the change in cannabis declassification in 2009 has coincided with a significant increase in hospital admissions for cannabis psychosis - rather than the decrease ... > full story -
Keys to Reducing the Impact of Agriculture on Climate Change
July 16, 2013 Land is not being used to its best advantage according to a new study by environmental ... > full story
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