Jean Williams

Elite forensic scientists work to nail wildlife killers

The popular CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, series has entertained people for over a decade with the fascination of using scientific methods to connect a victim, suspect and crime scene to solve murders--but those cases always involve humans.Scientists at...

World's most common pesticide suspected in bee die-off

Scientists have been baffled by the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which has caused bees to disappear on a global level by the billions since 2006.Climate change, habitat loss, fungus, virus, parasites and insecticides have been closely...

Extreme Texas weather: Republican denial of climate change losing traction

On Tuesday, nineteen tornados hit near the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, which leveled homes, crushed trees, tossed semi-trucks around like tinker-toys and caused widespread devastation.Texas, a state that has suffered from the longest drought in...

Deadly bat-killing culprit spreads to Alabama

This week, wildlife officials in Bridgeport, Alabama confirmed that a mysterious fungal-like disease that has already killed 7 million bats in the U.S. has been discovered there. The disease, known as white-nose syndrome, is 70 to...

Prairie dogs don't deserve ruthless and inhumane treatment

Every year, WildEarth Guardians releases a report card on how well states and federal agencies are doing at preservation efforts toward a controversial and misunderstood species—the prairie dog.Last week, the dismal report card was released for 2011...

Health of children winner in EPA's new pollution rules

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules that will limit mercury and other harmful asthma-causing pollutions. It will help prevent 130,000 cases of childhood asthma and respiratory ailments, like bronchitis, every year.The announcement followed...

Forget keystone pipeline: Ex-oil man T-Boone Pickens has a better plan

On Thursday, Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who have spent weeks trying to get approval for the Keystone XL pipeline in exchange for payroll tax cut extensions, were still determined to block any progress, while Americans continue to struggle...

Conservationists file suit to protect Grand Canyon from old uranium mine

On Monday, conservation groups and American Indian tribes filed an appeal in the 9th Circuit Court for the District of Arizona challenging a lower court ruling that allowed a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park to re-open without...

Republican denial of Climate Change toxic for America

On Wednesday, Tornado warnings blared through two cities in different states: Auburn, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, as more anomalous weather continued across the country, making 2011 one of the worst in recent history for extreme 500 year events.But top...

Denier alert: Climate cynic Mueller admits Global Warming reality

Richard Mueller, professor of physics at University of California at Berkeley, was one of those scientists, who called climate research proving the Earth is warming due to human activity--the result of shoddy science and “political activist frenzy.&rdquo...

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