This week in #scipol: vultures, sheep, and wallabies, the five hottest years ever end, transgender healthcare access in Pakistan, US gun violence research, the Save Our Seas Act, cancer rates drop, textbooks are political, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 10, 2019-January 13, 2020
This month in #scipol: corruption in the US federal and state governments, Australia burns, TCEQ admits leniency, new NSF leader and funding, the National Defense Authorization Act passes, Honolulu bans single-use plastic, 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 — November 12-18, 2019
This week in #scipol: Guatemalan town cuts plastic pollution and New Zealand cuts carbon emissions, UT Austin reforms sexual misconduct policies, world's smallest ungulate, bad climate news for the Arctic and Sea of Oshotsk, and more!
Weekly Digest — November 5-11, 2019
This week in #scipol: 11,000 scientists declare climate emergency and measures to combat climate change, the Transparency Rule is back, 2019 election results, mushroom foam, most Texans believe climate change is happening, and more!
Weekly Digest — October 15-21, 2019
This week in #scipol: early voting begins in Texas, Texas cities sue Kinder Morgan over pipeline, first all-female spacewalk, Rick Perry's successor nominated, chlorpyrifos banned in California, cheap renewables, and more!
Weekly Digest — October 8-14, 2019
This week in #scipol: the 82 moons of Saturn, return of an extinct leopard, HIV medication access increases, a pangenome, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, funding disparity at NIH, 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!