A report released by a US federal working group highlights 11 key categories of diseases and other health consequences that are occurring or will occur due to climate change. The report, A Human Health Perspective on Clim

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In “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,” Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway reveal that sometimes something else comes into play: politics. Instead of clarifying the physical world for us, a cadre of

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People wonder what the new Health Care bill will do for them, and when.

A month after President Obama signed the new health care law, which will ultimately provide
insurance coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans, many people are still wondering will happen next.. What just hap… Continue

While the United States lags behind in climate legislation, the European Union confirmed their willingness to to follow the Copenhagen Accord negotiated during the Unite Nations climate change conference in December of last year.

The EU reiterated that it remains fully committed to negotiating a legally binding agreement on climate protection for the period beyond 2012, and it also presented the EU's established greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2020. These cover a unilateral commi… Continue