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  • Saving Corwin’s Creatures

    While filming his new documentary, 100 Heartbeats, Jeff Corwin cut off the horn of a black rhino to protect it from poachers, broke four ribs transporting Sumatran orangutans to a wildlife sanctuary, and helped raid a Cambodian restaurant serving endangered species like pangolin and soft-shelled turtle. “I wanted to [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Trains, Planes, and Carbon Offsets

    This week, The New York Times published two much-needed articles questioning the value of programs that let consumers pay a small fee to ostensibly reduce their carbon footprints. The first, by Kate Galbraith, focused on renewable energy certificates, which allow utilities to offer their customers the choice of paying [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:31pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Newsweek, API, and Ethics

    Last week, news reports revealed that, since 2007, Newsweek has sold advertising packages to the American Petroleum Industry--the oil and gas industry’s largest trade group--“that included the right to co-host forums on energy issues, including two where members of Congress sat side-by-side on panels with the association’s president.” “Newsweek [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:48pm EST
    by The Editors

  • Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point

    Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The critiques have come from a variety of angles – literary critics lambast his glibness; The Daily Beast doesn’t like his dating habits; The Nation doesn’t like, well, anything about [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:03pm EST
    by Terry McDermott

  • Plimer, “Balance as Bias” Back in Climate Coverage

    That old nuisance, “balance as bias,” cropped up in the press again on Thursday in an article in the Telegraph about the theories of climate skeptic Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist. There isn’t even the pretense of a news peg. For some reason, the paper’s environment correspondent, Louise Gray, [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:49pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Government Programs Don't Always Increase the Deficit

    The federal budget deficit, it seems, is back on the White House’s agenda. David Brooks, in his column today, asserted in passing that once (if?) health care reform passes, President Obama will "pick some fights with his own party over spending." At Politico, meanwhile, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:50am EST
    by Greg Marx

  • The Fate of Former P-I Employees

    Ruth Teichroeb, who worked as an investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1997 until its demise in March, is not done investigating. On Wednesday she published a survey on her ironically titled blog, Safety Net, of what has become of her former colleagues in the last nine months. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:31pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • AMNH Hosts 33rd Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival

    Science news aficionados that are passing through New York City this week should check out the thirty-third Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, which kicks off at the American Museum of Natural History Thursday night and runs through Sunday. Named after the famed cultural anthropologist, a former assistant curator [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:36pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Univ. of Montana Launches Environmental Journalism Program

    At least somebody gets it. The University of Montana in Missoula announced on Monday that it is accepting applications for a new, two-year graduate program in environmental science and natural resource journalism. The news comes less than a month after Columbia University, in New York, decided to suspend a [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:39pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Trash Compactor

    Today’s New York Times features an article about a patch of garbage, estimated to be two times the area of Texas, swirling in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The piece was written by freelance journalist Lindsey Hoshaw, and the travel expenses for her reporting trip were covered by [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:45pm EST
    by Megan Garber

  • AAAS Announces 2009 Kavli Science Journalism Awards

    Recipients of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards were announced this morning. “A radio broadcast on probability told through a tale about a drifting balloon, a newspaper series on the impact of a devastating genetic disease on a family in rural Montana, and a group of gracefully written [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:55pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Unscientific America Meets Denialism

    Michael Specter and Chris Mooney agree that the United States is full of people who just don’t get science, and that this is a dangerous situation. In fact, they agree about a lot of things. They are the respective authors of the similarly titled Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:36pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard

  • Reservations about Resveratrol

    There is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting or quieting a particular gene cures this condition or that. One prominent example in recent years has been the claim of remarkable potential for a compound named resveratrol. Specifically, [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:03pm EST
    by Terry McDermott

  • “Will Work in Copenhagen”

    The United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen this December will undoubtedly be an international media circus of the highest order. Many of the journalists there will be wandering bards, however, reciting tales on the spot for anyone willing to listen or, God willing, pay them. In an effort [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:48pm EST
    by Curtis Brainard
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