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Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report
Exclusive: John Fingleton says regulators need to change their attitude to risk to end the country’s economic stagnation Overbearing health and safety rules are stopping Britain building new infrastructure, according to the economist whom Keir Starmer has cited as an…
Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray
Potentially precedent-setting case brought after Jordan Brown hit with capsicum spray outside mining and resources conference in Melbourne in 2019 Climate protesters have won a class action against Victoria police over the use of capsicum spray during an anti-mining demonstration…
White House Abruptly Cancels Meeting on FEMA’s Future After Leaked Report Revealed Plan to Gut the Agency
Council members were expected to vote on proposed cuts that would alter the way the federal government responds to declared emergencies. By Carl David Goette-Luciak A meeting that was supposed to chart the future of America’s disaster-response agency ended today…
Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds
Scientists say bears in southern Greenland differ genetically to those in the north, suggesting they could adjust Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought…
Lawsuit Seeks to Stop Oil Exploration in Remote Areas of the Arctic
A federal lawsuit argues that proposed work by ConocoPhillips could threaten delicate ecosystems in the largest tract of public land in the U.S.
Ask SME: Oceanographer Dr. Ivona Cetinić
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video In this close-up video, Dr. Ivona Cetinić, oceanographer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, shares her love of exploring the ocean and…
Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds
First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate. By Dana Drugmand Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the…
Federal Judge Blocks FEMA From Canceling Climate Resiliency Grants
A Thursday ruling said the Trump administration cannot eliminate the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program without Congress.
NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development
NASA NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development. NASA’s Science Mission Directorate Science Management Council selected CINEMA (Cross-scale Investigation of Earth’s Magnetotail and Aurora) to…