He’s in the Department of Life Sciences Communication, emphasis on communication, and he believes in the power of music. So University of Wisconsin Assistant Professor Bret Shaw worked with three singer songwriters to develop folk, rock, and country…
May 2009
These findings come from political scientist Jonathan Woon of the University of Pittsburgh, in a study published in the April issue of PS: Political Science & Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association:
Based on the results of…
The Waxman-Markey climate bill is teetering in committee and far from its final form, but we already know what Republicans will say about its carbon-cap proposal, and not just because politicians are predictable. We know because last week the House…
A little critter could pack a big political bite now that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided the hamster-sized rabbit relative may require protection under the Endangered Species Act. The American pika could prove more mischevious than…
It was a blustery day for wind power. Blues Traveler kicked off the industry’s annual conference in Chicago last night, and eighteen thousand attendees were greeted this morning by Mayor Richard M. Daley, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and the…
One of the fiercest environmental battles of the year has pitted activists against proponents of a fuel once thought to be a good alternative to oil—corn ethanol. Their argument came to focus, this morning, on one question: if an acre of corn in the…
On Friday we discovered that levels of mercury in the ocean are 30 percent higher than they were a decade ago, and scientists predict they’ll rise 50 percent more by 2050 unless we do something to keep mercury out of the sea. That won’t be easy…
Hard to defend soot, you’d think, yet Vandana Prakash pleads eloquently on behalf of the target du jour of global warming anxiety: rural villagers who produce soot in the mud stoves of India and Third World nations.
“From an individual point of view,…
