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"Penn State Investigates Researcher Over 'Climate-gate'"

"Penn State University announced Wednesday it had dismissed three of the most serious charges against one of its top climate researchers, Michael E. Mann, but would continue to probe if he violated academic standards of conduct in connection with Climate-gate, a series of e-mail exchanges that came to light after hackers pirated the University of East Anglia's server."

Source: Post Carbon, 02/04/2010

Study Shows Managed Turf Is Net Greenhouse Gas Loser

A study by Univ. of California-Irvine researchers has found that while grass itself acted as a carbon sink, when other factors are taken into account — fuel burned to maintain the lawn, emissions from fertilizer spread to help it grow, etc. — four times as much carbon was emitted than was absorbed.

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White House Moves To Reinstate Bush-Suppressed Climate Reports

Katharine Jacobs, chair of the forthcoming National Academy of Sciences report on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change and a professor at the University of Arizona, will head up the effort to reinstate the National Assessment — with new emphasis on adaptation.

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"C.I.A. Data Sharing With Environmental Scientists Is Revived"

"The nation's top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government's intelligence assets -- including spy satellites and other classified sensors -- as sensitive instruments that can assess the hidden complexities of environmental change. They seek insights from natural phenomena like clouds and glaciers, deserts and tropical forests."

Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2010
December 7, 2009 to December 10, 2009

Environmental Stressors in the Developmental of Origins of Disease

Baby risks can morph to adult disease
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