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French Study Suggests Monsanto’s GMO Corn Has Toxic Effects on Rat Organs

A French research team has published a statistical research study in the International Journal of Biological Science that suggests that three of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn products may have a toxic effect on rat [...]

USGS Finds that Coal-Tar Pavement Sealcoat Causes Widespread Contamination

In a research report that happens to be fully available online at Van Metre, Peter C., Mahler, Barbara J., and Wilson, Jennifer T, “PAHs Underfoot: Contaminated Dust from Coal-Tar Sealcoated Pavement is Widespread in the United States” Environmental Science & Technology, January 2009, scientists from the United States Geological Survey out of Austin, Texas found [...]

Scientists find that blasting mountain ranges into smithereenes is bad for the mountains.

Despite many efforts by environmental groups to challenge the right of the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to grant permits allowing for the destruction and removal of the Appalachian mountains, those efforts have floundered. In many cases, the mining company has been able to argue that mountaintop removal will not impair water [...]