Science
Arctic sea ice at record low due to global warming
By Mark Rainer, August 25, 2007
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), a US government-funded research center at the University of Colorado, reported this week the lowest Arctic sea ice extent on record with time still left ...
Possible habitable planet discovered: Extending the horizons of humanity
By Rob Stevens, May 29, 2007
A team of Swiss, French and Portuguese astronomers announced on April 24 the discovery of an “exoplanet” known as Gliese 581 c.
Despite interference from US and other countries
Climate change report outlines dire impact of global warming
By Mark Rainer, April 10, 2007
On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group II Summary for Policy Makers from its report on “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”
Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
By Joe Kay, March 15, 2007
In his new book, Dawkins has done us a service, if only in making more acceptable the general proposition that religion and science are at odds with each other, and that it is science that should win ...
Scientists conclude global warming is “unequivocal”
By Mark Rainer, February 10, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the “Summary for Policy Makers” from its fourth assessment report on science of global warming and climate change February 2. ...
Scientists report rampant political interference in climate research
By Naomi Spencer, February 5, 2007
As the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its urgent assessment Friday, providing alarming information about the advanced state of global warming, Washington immediately moved to down...
Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism: global warming and its market fix
By Mark Rainer, January 13, 2007
Recent developments have exposed a UN greenhouse gas emissions trading program as a lucrative source of profits. The program has hindered investment in technologies that would contribute to a long-ter...
Cuts to NASA budget gut space research
By Frank Gaglioti, May 20, 2006
In a far-reaching reorientation of its programs, the US National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) budget has effectively capped science spending for the five-year period from 2007 to 2011. P...
New fossils illuminate the evolution of land vertebrates from fish
By Walter Gilberti, May 1, 2006
A major fossil discovery at a site in northern Canada has provided compelling evidence of the evolutionary transition from ancient fish to the first tetrapods—four-legged terrestrial vertebrates tha...
Australian television program highlights censorship of climate scientists
By Frank Gaglioti, April 17, 2006
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) program entitled “The Greenhouse Mafia”, which appeared in February on the “Four Corners” television series, highlighted the Australian government...
Religion and science: a reply to a right-wing attack on philosopher Daniel Dennett
By James Brookfield, March 21, 2006
The 19 February 2006 issue of the New York Times Book Review carries a tendentious attack on Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, the latest work by American philosopher Daniel Dennet...
Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms
By Mike Ingram, March 20, 2006
In a ruling issued Friday, March 17, Judge James Ware denied a demand from the Department of Justice that search giant Google turn over samples of search terms entered into its web site.
