"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Greenland ice loss much faster than expected : The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research. [ European Space Agency (ESA) ; December 12, 2019] By NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA - NASA: First Map Of Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet , Public Domain, Link Also... Supplementary Material:  Mass Balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 - 2017 Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) (SHEPHERD et al ., 2018) http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/32377/2/IMBIE2_SOM%20v8.pdf Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet:  A Response to Global Warming (HANNA et al. , 2008) https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2007JCLI1964.1 Recent Sea Level Contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets (SHEPHERD et al ., 2007) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.468.3599&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Rude paper reviews are pervasive and sometimes harmful, study finds (Christie WILCOX, Science ; December 12, 2019) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/rude-paper-reviews-are-pervasive-and-sometimes-harmful-study-finds Featured Research Article: Unprofessional peer reviews disproportionately harm underrepresented groups in STEM (SILBIGER and STUBLER, 2019) https://peerj.com/articles/8247/ STEM = S cience, T echnology, E ngineering and M athematics By Brucewinter - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Trump Administration OKs ‘Cyanide Bombs’ Despite Indiscriminate Killing of Thousands of Animals a Year : Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The Trump administration today announced it will reauthorize use of sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s. These “cyanide bombs” received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency despite inhumanely and indiscriminately killing thousands of animals every year. They have also injured people . (Press Release; December 5, 2019) By United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/content/printable_version/fs_m44_device.pdf , Public Domain, Link Sodium Cyanide MSDS ( PubChem ) https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-cyanide Also... The secretive government agency planting ‘cyanide bombs’ across the U. S.   (Jimmy TOBIAS, The Guardian ; 26 June 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/envir...