So I'm a couple of weeks late, but it's worth noting that NY Times science blogger John Tierney is quitting his blog: After three years of experiments, TierneyLab is shutting down. I’ll still be…

CALGARY, Canada, May 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Crescent Point Energy Corp. (Crescent Point or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arrangement agreement (the Arrangement)…

This is going to be a short post where I confess my recent troubles with keeping everything going on at full speed in my life, while the workload constantly grows. I believe it is a temporary problem…

This piece about crumbling faith in expertise is making the rounds on the web (see also Becky's comments): The democratization of scientific expertise carries danger with it. If experts cannot be…

Carbon Fudgeprints It seems that everyone has a carbon footprint.  The idea is that everything you do puts CO2 into the atmosphere or if it doesn't then it jolly well ought to so let's work out…

A sinkhole in Saint-Jude, Quebec has just collapsed a house, killing a family of four inside, leading people to ask what they are, how they occur and obviously who is at risk. Sinkholes are…

LONDON and NEW YORK, May 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Justmeans, in cooperation with The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), announced this week: 'The Emerging Voice' Sustainability Blogging Competition.…

STUTTGART, Germany, May 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Close to US$44 billion in economic stimulus funds and other incentives are being directed at the development of alternative fuel and advance…

WAALWIJK, The Netherlands, May 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of DOCDATA N.V., held this afternoon 12 May 2010, has passed the following resolutions: - Adoption…

You could be forgiven for thinking that the days when flying was a frontier science are well and truly over, but not so, as the Solar Impulse had its maiden flight recently. A flying machine no…