This week in #scipol: abortion ban in place in Texas, the European Green Deal, coronavirus in the air, sexism at the NIH, ozone layer is healing, new review of the Dakota Access Pipeline ordered, and more!
Weekly Digest — February 11-17, 2020
This week in #scipol: coronavirus in Texas, criminal charges for Arkema CEO, human rights and climate change, border wall funding, funding for Native American women in STEM, colleges divest from fossil fuels, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 3-9, 2019
This week in #scipol: #UN climate summit, largest private environmental settlement in history, new Dept Energy Secretary, #RAWA passes out of committee, US education in trouble, #OED word of the year is climate emergency, and more!
Weekly Digest — August 19-September 3, 2019
This week in #scipol: giraffes get new protections, border wall pardons, University of Alaska budget cuts reduced, fires in Brazil, methane, ocean drones, genetics of homosexuality, bag bans in Texas, bananas in trouble, and more!
Summer Monthly Digest — July 13-August 19, 2019
In this last 2019 summer monthly #scipol digest: tigers, bears, and whales (oh my?), plastic and air pollution justice, EPA failures and Pebble Mine, abortions, HPV, vaccines, and glyphosate, Mauna Kea, trees in Ethiopia, and more!
Summer Monthly Digest — June 19-July 12, 2019
This month in #scipol: pollution in Texas, cheap solar power, deforestation in Brazil, defunded university in Alaska, comet lander, exascale computers water in India, Obamacare, gene patents, #MeTooSTEM, trusting scientists, and more!
Summer Monthly Digest — May 14-June 18, 2019
This month in #scipol: record CO2 levels, elephants, Brazilian scientists, #txlege #science wrap up, breast cancer, malaria and measles, carbon offsets, Chip Roy, China, pesticides, GRExit, bias in CVs, sea ice, crop floods, and more!
Weekly Digest — April 23-29, 2019
This week in #scipol: measles, climate change, the Marsquake, kidney disease in San Antonio, global inequality, malaria vaccine rollout, the Transparency Rule comeback, new plastic, 75% of physics students harassed, tobacco, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 11-17, 2018
This week in #scipol: a butterfly sanctuary slated for the border wall, the sage grouse in trouble, cats outdoors, goodbye Ryan Zinke, PhD's get jobs, T rex makeover, Little Foot uncovered 3.67 million years after she fell, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 4-10, 2018
This week in #scipol: the Asian longhorned tick, congressional committees take shape, a carbon fee bill is introduced, the UN holds climate talks, carbon emissions increase, and will we all get coal from Poland in our stockings?