Earth

  1. Earth

    The Solar System’s Big Bang

    Finding signs of a lost beginning.

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  2. Earth

    ‘Science fraud’ alleged in urban lead incident

    Virginia engineer charges data were buried or manipulated to hide the lead-poisoning implications to children of water contamination in the nation's capital.

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  3. Earth

    Toxic Lead: Watch Out for Schools

    Schools may present the "worst case" for encountering lead-tainted water, an engineer reports finding.

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  4. Earth

    Water-cleanup experiment caused lead poisoning

    Featured blog: Lead concentrations spiked in many children living in the nation's capital after the local water authority altered the treatment used to disinfect drinking water.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Overly Hungry for Frogs

    Frogs are shipped half-way round the world to sate human appetites for this lean white meat.

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  6. Earth

    Oldest zircon fine-tunes history of moon’s formation

    Mineral bit provides clues about when our cosmic companion formed its crust.

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  7. Ecosystems

    Pacific Northwest salmon poisoning killer whales

    A protected population of resident orcas around Vancouver Island and Puget Sound is the planet’s most PCB-contaminated mammals, says one researcher.

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  8. Earth

    EPA: Music to My Ears

    Obama's pick for EPA administrator pledges to put science first.

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  9. Humans

    Life expectancy up when cities clean the air

    Study shows people live longer after fine-particulate air pollution is reduced.

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  10. Earth

    Antarctica is getting warmer too

    Satellite data show most of the continent is following worldwide trend.

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  11. Earth

    Clearing some air over warming in Europe

    A decline in fog and haze clears the air but also fuels 20 percent of the warming in Europe, a new study concludes.

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  12. Earth

    Top of Everest is an ozone overdose

    Wafts from lower atmosphere, polluted regions bathe the peak in amounts that exceed EPA limits.

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