This is my This is my favorite scientific study of the year so far, even if it falls under the category of “scientific studies we didn’t need.” It turns out that the myth of high-stress positions of power is unfounded. Our lords of industry, our masters of the universe get along just fine. And if [...]

Lab mice fed Monsanto’s genetically modified corn and water exposed to their herbicide Roundup led to tumors and organ damage, reports a French study that could have resonance in the debate over GMOs. The peer-reviewed study, the first of its kind to show potential damage from lifetime exposure to GMOs, appeared in the journal Food [...]

James Hansen, the climate scientist who first alerted the world that we might have a planetary warming problem, noted over the weekend that we’re already seeing the effects. My projections about increasing global temperature have been proved true. But I failed to fully explore how quickly that average rise would drive an increase in extreme [...]

This news from the Berkeley Earth Project should get more attention. Richard Muller, the head of the project, was a confirmed climate skeptic, and he got plenty of attention from the right side of the spectrum for his views. In fact he got funding, including $150,000 from the Koch Brothers, to study climate science and [...]

A new study of the Marcellus Shale region, which has been one of the most prominent places for hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, shows that fluids buried deep under the surface are seeping into drinking water. The study does not indict fracking as the cause or claim that fracking fluids are among those finding their [...]

Gardiner Harris paints a very one-sided picture of an FDA desiring to use its regulatory power and a White House dedicated to constraining them. When you look at the results, however, either some FDA officials are trying to tell their side of the story, or the article is dead-on about the White House’s love affair [...]

So let me get this straight. During the non-event known as Climategate, hackers stole confidential emails from scientists at the University of East Anglia, and in many cases misinterpreted them, and the climate scientists received almost all of the criticism. Now, climate researcher Peter Gleick admits to obtaining documents from the Heartland Institute, the contents [...]

I remember the gradual inflation of numbers during the BP oil disaster. First BP would say that 1,000 barrels a day was being released, when 5,000, then 10,000, and so on, never quite reaching the actual figure of 53,000 barrels a day. The government would generally back up BP’s estimates, and only changed when they [...]

One important part of the suspected covert war with Iran, in addition to the drone surveillance and cyberwarfare, concerns the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. Several scientists have been murdered under questionable circumstances over the past several months. And now, another death has been reported: An Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility [...]

Following up on yesterday’s story about the shutdown of several injection wells in Ohio used in fracking, out of concern for a recent preponderance of earthquakes in the northeast part of the state, one expert has narrowed down the cause of the earthquakes, and he points to a wastewater well. Research is continuing on the [...]

John Broder looks back today at the Obama Administration’s decision to delay ozone standards. As has been reported several times before, he finds the meddling hands of Cass Sunstein and Chief of Staff Bill Daley. At least Sunstein, the head of OIRA, has some tenuous connection to regulations, if not science and the environment. But [...]