By Alec Luhn in Norilsk14 October 2016 (Guardian) – At first, Yury Scherbakov thought the cracks appearing in a wall he had installed in his two-room flat were caused by shoddy workmanship. But then other walls started cracking, and then the floor started to incline. “We sat on the couch and could feel it tilt,” […]
14 March 2016 (CDC) – CDC looks at four categories of opioids: Natural opioid analgesics, including morphine and codeine, and semi-synthetic opioid analgesics, including drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and oxymorphone; Methadone, a synthetic opioid; Synthetic opioid analgesics other than methadone, including drugs such as tramadol and fentanyl; and Heroin, an illicit (illegally-made) opioid […]
By May Wong8 December 2016 (Stanford University) – Parents often expect that their kids will have a good shot at making more money than they ever did. But young people entering the workforce today are far less likely to earn more than their parents when compared to children born two generations before them, according to […]
[Expect these sorts of studies to stop when Scott Pruitt, longtime enemy of the EPA and Trump’s selection to head the EPA, takes control. –Des] By Patrick G. Lee14 December 2016 (ProPublica) – Starting in 2008, ProPublica published stories that found hydraulic fracking had damaged drinking water supplies across the country. The reporting examined how […]
By Chelsea Harvey 14 December 2016 (Washington Post) – An adviser on the Trump transition team turned heads Wednesday when he likened modern climate science to the ancient belief that the Earth was flat. “I know that the current president believes that human beings are affecting the climate,” Anthony Scaramucci, a member of the president-elect’s […]
By William M. Arkin, Ken Dilanian, and Cynthia McFadden14 December 2016 (NBC News) – U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior officials […]
13 December 2016 (Desdemona Despair) – Here are Desdemona’s remarks at today’s climate activism meeting held concurrently with the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco: When Mike invited me to this event back in June, what I would have said then was very different from what needs to be said today. Since the […]
By Juliet Eilperin11 December 2016 (Washington Post) – President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real and that he is “studying” whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, Trump […]
By Christopher Ingraham 8 December 2016 (Washington Post) – Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday. That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 […]
By dana19815 December 2016 (Skeptical Science) – Human carbon pollution is heating the Earth incredibly fast. On top of that long-term human-caused global warming trend, there are fluctuations caused by various natural factors. One of these is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. The combination of human-caused warming and a strong El Niño event are on […]
