Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/science/mcclatchy science Science - McClatchy Newspapers en-us Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:39:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/science/mcclatchy http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/sc_mcclatchy/3418882 mcclatchy/20100204/3418882 McClatchy Newspapers health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:39:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — States require that children have all their immunizations before they can enroll in school. Veterinarians send reminder cards to pet owners when Fido or Tabby is due for a shot. No such safety net exists for adults, however, and especially for the elderly, who are particularly susceptible to many diseases that vaccines can prevent, according to a new report about the low rate of adult immunization. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/sc_mcclatchy/3418814 mcclatchy/20100204/3418814 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:53:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Despite the Obama administration's efforts to create jobs making wind turbines in America, some companies say that sluggish demand for wind energy is holding them back. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100204/sc_mcclatchy/3417813 mcclatchy/20100204/3417813 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:41:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Wednesday announced plans to boost the use of biofuels — including more ethanol from corn — and speed up work on a plan to capture carbon dioxide from coal, now the biggest source of global warming pollution. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100202/sc_mcclatchy/3416418 mcclatchy/20100202/3416418 McClatchy Newspapers science Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:17:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - MIAMI — The chance of another big earthquake in Haiti in the near future is great enough that people in Port-au-Prince should sleep in tents — not even in buildings that survived the Jan. 12 quake apparently unscathed, geologists said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100201/sc_mcclatchy/3415635 mcclatchy/20100201/3415635 McClatchy Newspapers science Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:52:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — China, India, the U.S. and the rest of the world's biggest polluters turned in their official pledges to reduce emissions, a move that gives global climate protection a start, the United Nations announced on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100124/sc_mcclatchy/3403257 mcclatchy/20100124/3403257 McClatchy Newspapers science Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:03:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration soon may guarantee as much as $18.5 billion in loans to build new nuclear reactors to generate electricity, and Congress is considering whether to add billions more to support an expansion of nuclear power. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100124/sc_mcclatchy/3403256 mcclatchy/20100124/3403256 McClatchy Newspapers science Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The "nuclear renaissance," hailed in many headlines and speeches over the last few years, started under President George W. Bush. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100124/sc_mcclatchy/3404219 mcclatchy/20100124/3404219 McClatchy Newspapers science Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is bursting out of its headquarters in the box-store, strip-mall northwestern suburbs of Washington. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100121/sc_mcclatchy/3406596 mcclatchy/20100121/3406596 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:25:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — For the first time in the history of the Clean Air Act, the federal government has reached settlements that will require a glassmaker and a cement company to add pollution controls at all their plants across the country. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100120/sc_mcclatchy/3405472 mcclatchy/20100120/3405472 McClatchy Newspapers science Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:02:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - Something curious is going on with the songs of blue whales in oceans all over the world. The whales are singing their same old songs, but year by year they're all shifting the frequency lower. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100118/sc_mcclatchy/3403476 mcclatchy/20100118/3403476 McClatchy Newspapers science Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:55:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - ANCHORAGE — For nearly a decade, scientists have puzzled over the persistence of oil from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100114/sc_mcclatchy/3400610 mcclatchy/20100114/3400610 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:46:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - MIAMI — For years, geologists had been predicting an earthquake in Haiti — possibly as powerful as magnitude 7.2. The problem was they couldn't say when. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100110/sc_mcclatchy/3395394 mcclatchy/20100110/3395394 McClatchy Newspapers science Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:01:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A new state-of-the-art radar system on the Washington coast will make it easier for meteorologists to track heavy weather coming off the Pacific Ocean, as some scientists say the intensity of winter storms and waves pounding the Northwest shore is increasing. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100107/sc_mcclatchy/3394610 mcclatchy/20100107/3394610 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:26:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed tougher controls on smog, a move that's expected to make a lasting improvement in the quality of the air that Americans breathe. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100107/sc_mcclatchy/3394235 mcclatchy/20100107/3394235 McClatchy Newspapers science Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - The consequences of this mining in eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and southwestern Virginia are ""pervasive and irreversible," the article finds. Companies are required by law to take steps to reduce the damages, but their efforts don't compensate for lost streams nor do they prevent lasting water pollution, it says. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091230/sc_mcclatchy/3388174 mcclatchy/20091230/3388174 McClatchy Newspapers science Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:45:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Dust, dust, dust. It's everywhere, burrowing under beds, piling up on windowsills, clogging guns and machinery, irritating eyes, noses and lungs. It soars thousands of miles over continents and oceans, sometimes obliterating the sky. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091230/sc_mcclatchy/3388124 mcclatchy/20091230/3388124 McClatchy Newspapers science Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Dust, dust, dust. It's everywhere, burrowing under beds, piling up on windowsills, clogging guns and machinery, irritating eyes, noses and lungs. It soars thousands of miles over continents and oceans, sometimes obliterating the sky. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091229/sc_mcclatchy/3387449 mcclatchy/20091229/3387449 McClatchy Newspapers science Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:48:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Numbers are one way to measure where you've been and where you're going. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091227/sc_mcclatchy/3384272 mcclatchy/20091227/3384272 McClatchy Newspapers science Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:01:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A 562-foot smokestack that spewed a plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals over 1,000 square miles of Washington state's Puget Sound for nearly a century remains a fitting symbol of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mcclatchysc/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091223/sc_mcclatchy/3383744 mcclatchy/20091223/3383744 McClatchy Newspapers science Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:06:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Mississippi is, far and away, the most religious state in the country — ranking first among the 50 states in a nationwide poll in four categories: the importance of religion to residents; the frequency of prayer; the attendance at worship services and the certainty of a belief in God.