"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

New!   California bans pesticide linked to brain damage in children (John ROGERS, Associated Press ; October 9, 2019) https://apnews.com/2b433b664d834f3faa4e39ff257cabb6 DPR recommends Interim Restrictions on Use of Chlorpyrifos [Press Release, California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CA DPR) ; November 15, 2018] https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pressrls/2018/111518.htm California recommends restrictions for popular pesticide (Brian MELLEY, Phys.org ; November 15, 2018) https://phys.org/news/2018-11-california-aims-restrict-popular-pesticide.html EPA orders ban of farm pesticide chlorpyrifos, used in Kern County ( 23 News KERO ; August 10, 2018) https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/epa-orders-ban-of-farm-pesticide-chlorpyrifos-used-in-kern-county EPA is ordered to ban farm pesticide chlorpyrifos (Gregory WALLACE, CNN ; August 9, 2018) https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/epa-court-order-ban-pesticide-chlorpyrifos/index.html California may restrict co...

Greenhouse gases linked to degrading plastic (Marcie GRABOWSKI, University of Hawai'i News ; August 1, 2018) https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/08/01/greenhouse-gases-linked-to-degrading-plastic/ Featured Research Article: Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment (ROYER et al. , 2018) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200574&type=printable

Researchers at The University of New Mexico uncover remnants of early solar system : Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova. As this cloud collapsed, it formed a... (Steve CARR, UNM Newsroom ; August 2, 2018) Featured Research Article: Silica-rich volcanism in the early solar system dated 4.565 Ga (SRINIVASAN et al. , 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05501-0.pdf

State of the climate:  2018 set to be fourth warmest year despite cooler start (Zeke HAUSFATHER, CarbonBrief.com ; 01.08.2018) https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2018-set-to-be-fourth-warmest-year-despite-cooler-start Research Publication : State of the Climate in 2017 (Blunden, J., D. S. Arndt, and G. Hartfield , Eds., 2018: State of the Climate in 2017. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 99 ( 8 ), Si–S332, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.) https://www.ametsoc.net/sotc2017/StateoftheClimate2017_lowres.pdf Websites : State of the Climate  [ American Meteorological Society ( AMS ) ] https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/ State of the Climate ( NOAA ) https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/