"Food and Health"
The Environment Report's series on food and health focuses on the seemingly addictive qualities of sugar, fat, and salt, and the way some advertisers focus on children.
Source: Environment Report, 01/27/2010
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"Survey: Honeybee Colony Collapse Losses Declining"
"Fewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population."
Source: AP, 01/27/2010
"Officials Fear Another Whooping Crane Die-Off"
"Wildlife officials fear the world's only remaining natural flock of endangered whooping cranes could be at risk of another winter die-off."
Source: AP, 01/27/2010
"Scientists Link Flame Retardants and Reduced Human Fertility"
"Scientists for the first time have found evidence that flame retardants -- ubiquitous in homes and in the environment - may be reducing human fertility. California women exposed to high levels of the compounds take substantially longer to get pregnant than women with low levels."
Source: EHN, 01/27/2010
"Obama to Announce High-Speed Rail Plan Post-Speech"
"A day after delivering a State of the Union address aimed at showing recession-weary Americans he understands their struggles, President Barack Obama intends to award $8 billion in stimulus funds to develop high-speed rail corridors and sell the program as a jobs creator."
Source: AP, 01/27/2010
A Newbie's Advice on Getting Started with Video
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The Beat: Top Universities Rethink How To Prepare E-Beat Journalists
By BILL DAWSON
The Beat usually examines recent coverage of environmental issues. This time around, though, The Beat looks at the environmental beat itself — specifically, at a couple of recent developments related to the training of journalists to cover environmental issues.
The first event was the October announcement that Columbia University was suspending for review its two-year, dual-degree graduate program leading to one master's degree in journalism and another in environmental science.
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Science Survey: Notes on Nature Can Be a Telling Scientific Record of Home
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E-Reporting Biz: It Can Be Dangerous Being An E-Journalist in the Digital Age
The digital age of environmental journalism has brought with it an ugly underbelly characterized by increasingly bitter personal exchanges and accusations and a sucking-up of countless hours of productive reporting time and effort. How reporters handle these distractions may shape how well the American public understands, or doesn't understand, the climate challenge they and future generations will face.
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Scientists Say Actual Data Contradicts Climate Skeptic
A new peer-reviewed analysis by scientists at the National Climatic Data Center concludes that skeptic Anthony Watts' 2009 critique of the U.S. temperature record is itself contrary to the actual data.
Source: Scholars & Rogues, 01/26/2010
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