When the U.S. invaded Iraq, riding a pack of lies and monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including major news services, academics, and politicians from both “sides” of the spectrum, lined up to cheerlead and off they went to war. It was one of the most shameful chapters in the long history of shameful acts […]

By Andy Soos, ENN For the first time scientists examined melatonin suppression in a various types of light bulbs, primarily those used for outdoor illumination, such as streetlights, road lighting, mall lighting and the like. Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin five times more than exposure to the […]

By Carlyle Coash, GlobalWarmingisReal contributor It’s all about the little things. Boy is that true. Unsure where I first heard such a thing, but over 43 years of life it has proven to be spot on. How many relationships have been saved by remembering some small detail, adding an extra touch at just the right […]

By Andy Soos, ENN Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. The study by Tom Wigley, who is a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), […]

Dear editor, After 30 bargaining sessions at the provincial table we have had no offers of pay increases, benefit improvements or the return of the class size and composition language that the BC Supreme Court recently ruled was illegally stripped from our contracts. The court found that then-Minister of Education Christy Clark proudly led legislation […]

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was first cast into the public eye during the Gaza War that began in late 2008. In January 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza, Israeli shells fell on Abuelaish’s family home, brutally killing three of his daughters and their cousin. Amazingly, the loss did not embitter […]

By Liz Shaw, ARKive.org Stems cells are cells that are capable of developing into different kinds of specialised cells, such as blood, nerve or muscle cells. They can also divide indefinitely to give rise to more stem cells. A new study, published in Nature Methods, reports that two highly endangered species, the northern white rhinoceros […]

Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior, is co-sponsoring a series of MP forums to discuss the issues that surround genetic modification on a local and national level. Lucy Sharratt is coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), a collaborative campaign of 18 member groups working for food sovereignty...

Heroreports is a non-profit project dedicated to crowdsourcing and mapping reports of citizen courage and positive social behavior. It started in Ciudad Juárez, México as an initiative of the MIT Center for Civic Media called “Crónicas de Héroes“, under the direction of Yesica Guerra, a researcher in urban design with a...

By David A Gabel, ENN The massive international pipeline, known as the Keystone XL pipeline, would connect Alberta’s booming tar sands to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast. It would be the longest pipeline outside of Russia and China, and would carry North America’s largest oil deposit to the market. The project has sparked […]