
Leonardo DiCaprio is partnering up with Netflix to create a new series of environmental and conservation-themed documentaries, which will air exclusively on the streaming service, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
by Kipp Jones4 Mar 2015, 11:41 AM PST0

In recent weeks I have been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups.
by Dr. Wei-Hock Soon2 Mar 2015, 2:54 PM PST0

A group of laboratories in the Bay Area are testing marijuana for something that most food, medicine, and product providers have done for decades: quality assurance.
by Daniel Nussbaum2 Mar 2015, 11:48 AM PST0

A researcher from Greater Boston discovered a new wasp species in Kenya. He stuck to his roots and named it Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski after the Boston Bruins goaltender, Tuuka Rask.
by Mary Chastain26 Feb 2015, 12:07 AM PST0

Real estate mogul and “Apprentice” host Donald Trump talked vaccines, tax returns, Common Core, illegal immigration, and Israel in a wide-ranging interview set to air on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Trump said that while he is a “total believer” in
by Ian Hanchett25 Feb 2015, 2:39 PM PST0

A not so funny, but somewhat predictable, event occurred after Dr. Matt Briggs co-authored a major peer-reviewed climate physics paper that exposed significant errors in the billion-dollar computer models used by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
by Robert Wilde23 Feb 2015, 5:18 AM PST0

A Saudi cleric argues for geocentrism “at a university lecture in the United Arab Emirates,” because airplanes.
by Breitbart News17 Feb 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

A team of optics researchers from Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) is developing telescopic contact lenses that may help people suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which may affect 196 million people worldwide by 2020.
by William Bigelow17 Feb 2015, 8:43 AM PST0

Bill Maher criticized Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s (R) statement on evolution and expressed concern about the long-term effects of vaccinations on Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO. Regarding Walker’s statement that science and faith “go hand-in-hand,” Maher stated, “No, they absolutely
by Ian Hanchett13 Feb 2015, 10:24 PM PST0

Columnist Charles Krauthammer took issue with a question on evolution asked to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and a Washington Post story on his college years on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer said the evolution query was “an
by Ian Hanchett12 Feb 2015, 4:56 PM PST0

HBO’s Bill Maher complained that comparing climate change skepticism to vaccine skepticism was unfair to vaccine skeptics before attacking GMOs on Friday’s “Real Time.” “The analogy that I see all the time is that if you ask any questions [about
by Ian Hanchett6 Feb 2015, 9:10 PM PST0

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher opened his show by making fun of Chris Christie and Rand Paul for their positions on vaccine mandates, then defended vaccine skepticism on Friday. Maher stated in his open that “Rand Paul, you saw this,
by Ian Hanchett6 Feb 2015, 8:31 PM PST0

Amie Parnes, Senior White House Correspondent for the Hill and co-author of the Hillary Clinton biography “HRC” declared that Hillary Clinton was “backtracking” from her earlier position on the link between vaccines and autism on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” “She was
by Ian Hanchett4 Feb 2015, 3:38 PM PST0

Disney stockholders can breathe a little bit easier. On Tuesday, CEO Bob Iger said that attendance at Disneyland theme parks in California has not been affected in the wake of a measles outbreak that is thought to have originated at the parks.
by Daniel Nussbaum4 Feb 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Tuesday on Bloomberg TV’s “With All Due Respect,” Dr. Ben Carson, a potential 2016 candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, refused to disparage Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over comments he has made on the vaccine debate. Hosts John Heilemann and
by Pam Key3 Feb 2015, 5:27 PM PST0

Columnist George Will reacted to a clip of Joy Behar attacking “neanderthal thinking on the right” by pointing out that many of her fellow leftists believe pseudoscience about fracking and GMOs on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.
by Ian Hanchett3 Feb 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

At the top of his Monday radio program, Rush Limbaugh criticized those promoting the so-called vaccination controversy in the media, which he deemed to be a “phony debate” intended to harm Republicans by replicating the 2012 “war on women” meme.
by Jeff Poor3 Feb 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

In a flashback from June 2014, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” show regular Samantha Bee exposed the anti-vaxxer movement’s “outbreak of f*cking misinformation” mostly in “wealthy white liberal enclaves.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
by Pam Key2 Feb 2015, 6:08 PM PST0

Monday, Fox News Channel host Shepard Smith slammed “science denier” parents who do not vaccinate their children. Smith said, “Hello, science. A lot of you want to talk about science deniers, that’s what you are. You measles no people! You
by Pam Key2 Feb 2015, 3:46 PM PST0

The measles outbreak continues to spread in California and beyond, with a case confirmed Wednesday in Fresno County. Fresno health officials say the man visited the area recently and may have had contact with county residents in public locations, including an area medical center and its maternity ward, potentially exposing babies to the extremely contagious disease.
by Michelle Moons29 Jan 2015, 1:14 PM PST0

A newly discovered solar system — with five small rocky planets — makes ours look like a baby.
by Breitbart News27 Jan 2015, 6:21 PM PST0

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has raised serious concerns over the use of the real-time traffic and tracking application Waze, saying it jeopardizes the lives of police officers by revealing their locations.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Jan 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

Sunday, the World Health Organization’s chief Margaret Chan admitted the organization learned “many lessons” from being “caught by surprise, unprepared” in the latest Ebola outbreak. Chan said, “Never again should the world be caught by surprise, unprepared.” Follow Pam Key on
by Pam Key25 Jan 2015, 11:45 AM PST0

Torrential, fast-moving rainstorms caused by atmospheric rivers, or ribbons of water vapor extending thousands of miles in the sky, could be the answer to a three-year drought, an answer for which California is desperate.
by Daniel Nussbaum19 Jan 2015, 12:42 PM PST0

SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted a video to Twitter Friday showing his company’s Falcon 9 rocket crashing in a fiery explosion on a barge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket had just returned from making a delivery
by Daniel Nussbaum17 Jan 2015, 10:53 AM PST0