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EPA Seeks to Ease Rules on Muddy Runoff From Logging Roads
The Obama administration wants to change the rules applying to stormwater running off logging roads, blunting a landmark court...
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American Physics Dreams Deferred
When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the...
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Climate Pact Process Stumbles as Countries Bicker
Less than six months after the world agreed to craft a new climate pact by 2015, negotiations stumbled at...
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Global Body Seeks Unified Approach to Assessing Science
The leaders of about 50 national research agencies in both the developed and developing worlds have announced the establishment...
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Senate Bill Would Make It Easier for STEM Graduates to Stay in U.S.
Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would make it easier for international students studying science, technology, engineering, or...
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Study Finds 90% of Endangered Species Recovering on Time
A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis of 110 endangered species finds that 90% are on track to meet...
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NASA Budget Cuts Draw Threat of Presidential Veto
A 2013 spending bill that would fund NASA’s commercial crew program below the level President Barack Obama requested drew...
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U.S. National Ocean Policy: No Success Without Science?
Coaxing U.S. federal agencies to work together is no small feat. But an emerging National Ocean Policy (NOP) is...
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Research Censorship Called Problematic
The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor medical research potentially of...
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Is Global Warming Driven By Economic Growth?
To slow climate change the world will either have to put the brakes on economic growth or change the...