Miranda Spencer

I’m Carbon Neutral. Are You?

ensia.com — May 20, 2013 - Concern over climate change rose to a fever pitch in 2006 after the release of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and around the same time, the concept of carbon neutrality burst into public consciousness.

Fracking and women’s health - Shale Reporter : Miranda Spencer

shalereporter.com — One of the most talked about headlines last week was Angelina Jolie's decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. Although she is otherwise healthy, she carries a "faulty gene," called BRCA 1, that puts her at unusually high risk for breast cancer.

Focus on preventing cancer

sfchronicle.com — To what lengths will women go to prevent breast cancer from striking their lives and robbing them of time spent with loved ones? Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer incidences have a genetic link, meaning that the vast majority of breast-cancer cases diagnosed cannot be attributed to an unfortunate family inheritance.

Opinion: Jolie's choice carries risks with benefits

cnn.com — Editor's note: Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the director of the university's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He blogs about health policy at The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll.

DOJ Secretly Obtains Months Of AP Phone Records; AP Calls It 'Unprecedented Intrusion'

huffingtonpost.com — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering. Prosecutors took records showing incoming and outgoing calls for work and personal numbers for individual reporters, plus for general AP offices in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn.

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Common plants, animals threatened by climate change, study says

latimes.com — WASHINGTON--Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study¿s authors looked at 50,000 common species.

Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone

nytimes.com — The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

HuffPost Live

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