Sci/Environment

European Commission unveils proposal that critics charge undermine efforts designed to curb tar sands imports to Europe. The European Commission on Tuesday unveiled proposed legislation to toss out a requirement to label tar sands oil […]

Industry illegally injected about 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into central California drinking-water and farm-irrigation aquifers, the state found after the US Environmental Protection Agency ordered a review of possible contamination. According to documents […]

A German farmer has been putting nappies on his cows in protest at EU legislation that forbids the use of fertilizers on steep slopes. With no bovine-sized diapers available from the local store, white bed […]

As parties to various conflicts increasingly resort to satellite and drone images as court evidence, two British experts have decided to become founding fathers of a one-of-a-kind specialist agency – claiming to be unique “space […]

Yahoo News reporting (source link): A New York appeals court will consider this week whether chimpanzees are entitled to “legal personhood” in what experts say is the first case of its kind. For Steven Wise, […]

The widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides by Ontario farmers, which has been linked to the deaths of bees, could have a “massive impact” on our ecological system, the province’s environment watchdog warned Tuesday. “All the […]

“Men will never rest till they’ve spoiled the Earth and destroyed the animals.” — Watership Down Human Extinction? The greatest indicator of human advancement in the two million or so years we’ve taken to dominate […]

From The Washington Post (source link): As the Ebola epidemic continues to sweep across West Africa, concern is so great that local zoos are now taking in abandoned wild animals that had once been considered […]

SOURCE LINK   A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, will take place Wednesday and will be visible across the United States. Viewers will have to wake up early, as totality begins at 6:25 a.m. […]