By Alan Bjerga; editing by Steve Stroth Oct 5, 2010 1:46 PM PT The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent from a […]
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY8 October 2010 A record 30% — or 4.4 million — of the nation’s 14.7 million unemployed workers were out of work at least a year in August, up from 23% in December, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday by Pew Economic Policy Group. The […]
By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, October 4, 2010; 6:20 PM The United States is saddled with a rapidly decaying and woefully underfunded transportation system that will undermine its status in the global economy unless Congress and the public embrace innovative reforms, a bipartisan panel of experts concludes in a report released Monday. […]
[Update: What a scientist didn’t tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths. h/t Gail.] By KIRK JOHNSONPublished: October 6, 2010 DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 6, 2010) — A study by a USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station scientist shows the numbers of nonnative Chinese tallowtree in Louisiana, Mississippi and east Texas grew by about 370 percent over a 16-year period. The spread of the invasive plant may create problems for plants and wildlife along the Gulf coast. […]
Contact: Brian Laghi, laghib@nrtee-trnee.ca October 5, 2010 The physical effects of climate change on Canada in the next century could touch everything from human health and community infrastructure to water resources and even tourism and recreation activities, according to a newly-compiled presentation of scientific research published today. Called Degrees of Change, the diagram is the […]
By Michael Carlowicz23 September 2010 In August 2010, Lake Mead reached its lowest level since 1956. The largest reservoir in the United States was straining from persistent drought and increasing human demand. Two images from the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite show some of the stark changes on the eastern end of the […]
Destructive species hitching ride on cargo ships make Seaway a bigger threat By Dan Egan of the Journal SentinelOct. 3, 2010 For thousands of years, the Great Lakes were protected by Niagara Falls on the east and a subcontinental divide on the west, but those barriers to our grandest freshwater system were obliterated over the […]
By Laura Zuckerman; editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCuneSat Oct 2, 2010 6:29pm EDT SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Across the northern Rocky Mountains, bighorn sheep are dying by the hundreds from pneumonia and alarmed wildlife officials are hunting and killing the majestic animals to halt the spread of the disease. Since winter, nine disease […]
By Yereth Rosen; editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCuneSun Oct 3, 2010 9:11am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Move over, polar bear. The Pacific walrus may be the new icon of global warming. Like polar bears, walruses are dependent on floating sea ice to rest, forage for food and nurture their young. Like polar […]
