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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."

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Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2010

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Toolbox: Google Scholar Opens Science to Everybody — Almost

A new tool makes finding, understanding, and communicating science easier for environmental reporters.

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"Troubled Waters, Part II: On the Trail of the Lost Data"

"In 2004, CDC scientists published a reassuring report about lead contamination in Washington’s water even though they knew that thousands of blood lead measurements had been lost. Now Congress wants to know why."

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Source: AAAS Professional Ethics Report, 10/02/2009

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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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March 7, 2010 to March 11, 2010

Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting

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Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam

As governments tighten their belts, it's getting harder for them to pay scientists to monitor the health of the nation's ecosystems. So increasingly, they're turning to citizens who do that kind of work for free. The Environment Report's Ann Dornfeld reports on the growing influence of these "citizen scientists".

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Source: Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam, 09/14/2009

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September 13, 2009 to September 16, 2009

2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program encompasses a network of 26 sites ranging from tropical forests to polar deserts dedicated to understanding long-term ecological phenomena. The meeting program comprises seven plenary speakers, including an evening presentation on the pre-history of LTER.

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"An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?"

One key chemical tool used to control mosquito-spread malaria in the developing world -- DDT -- has harmful environmental consequences. Now a new article in the journal Nature tells of research on chemicals that may promise to be effective mosquito repellants by blocking the insects' ability to detect carbon dioxide.

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Source: NYTimes, 08/27/2009

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"Environmental Research in an Age of Arctic Sovereignty"

"In an age of angst about security and Arctic sovereignty, it's no mean feat piecing together an oceanographic expedition involving scientists from the United States, Russia and elsewhere and launching the whole affair from a northern U.S. port."

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Source: Reuters, 08/25/2009

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"Encyclopedia of Life grows; Clues on Ageing, Pests"

"An online encyclopedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into aging, climate change and even the spread of insect pests."

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Source: Reuters, 08/25/2009

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