Al Fin: Oil is Rapidly Disappearing, as Crews Prepare to Kill Well

It is becoming almost impossible for oil cleanup crews on the Gulf of Mexico to find any oil to clean up -- both onshore and offshore. It seems that nature is a lot better at cleaning up oil in the warm waters of the Gulf than academics, plaintiff's attorneys, and political activists have been claiming.

Die Klimazwiebel: Epilogue to Lysenko-debate by Nils Roll Hansen

The historical origins of Lysenkoism illustrate how one-sided speculative ideas about the nature of science, poorly founded in a study of historical facts, but attractive from a certain ideological point of view, can corrupt science from the inside.

BASIC meeting ends without consensus on climate change

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A meeting of the BASIC group, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, ended on Monday without consensus on a unified plan to deal with the global climate change.