Henry Waxman has had just about enough. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's climate-change bill has been besieged by hundreds of (mostly Republican) amendments all week. Waxman, the committee's chairman, is giving them until the end of Thursday to keep ...Read More
Reporting from Washington and London - Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an e-mail being "taken completely out of context"? Regardless, the latest dust-up over the science of climate change appears unlikely to affect the dynamics of either ...Read More
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine—Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse ...Read More
For anyone waiting for the next Global Warming setback (or just ammunition to fire at the Climate Change greenies), some recent hacking into computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit might do the trick.
An email chain between ...Read More
WASHINGTON—Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
"This is how ...Read More
Confusing new recommendations on mammograms and pap smears are playing into public fears about the increased role the federal government would play in health care if President Barack Obama’s health care reform efforts are successful.
Even some supporters of health care ...Read More
The global warming debate took a new twist as attackers allegedly hacked into the e-mail server of a prominent British climate research center and stole more than a thousand messages about global warming to post online, according to reports.The e-mails ...Read More
[Editor's note: This article was authored by BSR, a global business network and consultancy focused on sustainability.] As negotiators gather in Copenhagen next month to discuss a global climate policy framework, there has never been a better time for companies to ...Read More
John McCain may have been the Republican Party's national standard bearer last year, but now it looks like he may have a hard time just hanging on to his Senate seat. A new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely 2010 GOP primary ...Read More
BEIJING (AP) - Washington's ambassador to Beijing hit out Friday at negative U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's visit to China, saying it failed to take into account important progress on many issues. Although producing no breakthroughs on key issues, ...Read More
Science-based US supercomputer fastest in world
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable energy, new medicines — rather than advances in ...Read More
They were some of the biggest mammals to walk the earth but it seems woolly mammoths were not killed off by humans with sophisticated weapons.
A study published in the journal Science shows that woolly mammoths started to die out nearly ...Read More
This time, it's different. There has been considerable grumbling from the medical establishment, but the approach Democrats are taking "doesn't really threaten any of those groups," said Paul Starr, a Princeton University professor who won a Pulitzer Prize for his ...Read More
For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising. As much as it may pain her many critics, she also has a lot of history ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Nov. 19) -- Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states. Despite the criticism, ...Read More
ALBANY, N.Y. -Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leaning toward running for the U.S. Senate rather than making a bid for governor, two Republican advisers said Thursday.
"From staff, we have been hearing that he has been indicating quietly ...Read More
If a biologist had to pick one living thing as the textbook of how genes work, what would it be? Corn seems to be a good answer. Now the scientific world has at hand the complete genome sequence of corn, announced by ...Read More
BRUSSELS — Seven socialist prime ministers backed the European Union's trade commissioner to be its new foreign policy chief, moving a Thursday summit closer to breaking a stalemate over two freshly created top EU jobs.
Diplomats said Sweden, the summit's host, ...Read More
House Republican leaders on Thursday denounced an expected move by House Democrats to introduce their version of the so-called "doc fix," a $210 billion plan to keep doctors who treat Medicare patients from experiencing severe cuts in their annual federal ...Read More
LONDON (Nov. 19) -- The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday. The agency did not recommend countries ...Read More
Sarah Palin, a former high school point guard, heads to the basketball-crazy Hoosier state today on the second day of her â??Going Rogueâ? book tour. Hereâ??s Andrea Mitchellâ??s report on NBC Nightly News last night from Grand Rapids, Mich., including ...Read More
