Nicaragua Canal Threatens Central America’s Largest Lake
Secretive Panama Canal rival will also displace farmers and indigenous communities and slice up rainforest reserves. [...]
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What ‘America’s Data Agency’ Should Be Doing With Its Data
Much of the world’s best data comes from the U.S. government and much of the best data in government comes from the Commerce Department. Here's how it could be better. [...]
One Giant Leap
Despite Washington's fits and starts, NASA has to plan years into the future - that's the nature of scientific research. [...]
Earth-sized planets spied in ‘habitable zone’
At least five Earth-sized planets appear to be orbiting their stars at just the right distance to host water. [...]
Rethinking Coal
“The coal industry is under attack and West Virginia is ground zero for that attack,” industry rep says. [...]
Alaska Coast Eroding Fast
The sea is eating away at Alaska's northern coast with alarming speed, a new video of time-lapse photographs shows. [...]
Tiny “T. Rex” Found — 150-Lb Species Came First
The 150-pound Raptorex "was running things down, dispatching them with its powerful jaws, and clutching them with its two-fingered hands"—the same hunting strategy that apparently worked for 6-ton T. rex. [...]
Narrow Torture Probe, Loud Critics
Dick Cheney and others oppose a decision to review interrogations that may have overstepped even more lenient legal guidance of Bush-administration lawyers. [...]
Health Care Debate Turns Dark
The already unwieldy debate over US healthcare reform grew stranger and darker this week, drawing in British physicist Stephen Hawking, “death panels”, guns and Nazi Germany. [...]
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