Since 66 wolves were cautiously reintroduced into the Northern Rocky Mountains in 1995, the population has grown to over 1,700 today. Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared that the wolves were no longer endangered and allowed Montana and Idaho to authorize managed hunts
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on Gassing Wolf Pups vs. Hunting Their Parents
Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, gasoline prices are falling. Two years ago, gas prices peaked at over $4 per gallon, more than quadrupling from just 88.5 cents per gallon back in 1999. So what the hell is going on
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Delves into the Deep Mysteries of Gas Prices
In the wake of last year’s Climategate scandal , the InterAcademy Council (IAC), an Amsterdam-based organization of the world’s science academies, is issuing its critique of the U.N. Intervovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) processes and procedures
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U.N. Climate Change Panel Processes Critiqued
Remember the rosy scenario report by the Obama administration that 75 percent of the oil from the BP oil blowout had disappeared.
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The Disappearing Gulf Oil Plumes Redux
Last week, a federal district judge in northern California banned biotech sugar beets based on activist arguments that the crop had not been properly approved by the USDA.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Bad News Beet Ban
Perhaps it is enough to hate high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) because the federal government has encouraged its production for decades by imposing high tariffs on sugar imports and by subsidizing corn farmers. (It’s certainly enough for me.) In addition, HFCS-haters blame the sugar for making Americans ever fatter and less healthy
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Pancreatic Cancer Likes Fructose: Time to Panic?
Participants in the Open Science Summit this past weekend considered a wide variety of disparate issues under the banner of open access.
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey’s Final Dispatch from the Open Science Summit
Over at City Journal , Steven Malanga looks at the recent history of federal dietary guidelines and finds they may well be killing us. As a recent review of the latest research in Scientific American pointed out, ever since the first set of federal guidelines appeared in 1980, Americans heard that they had to reduce their intake of saturated fat by cutting back on meat and dairy products and replacing them with carbohydrates.
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What the Government Tells You To Eat May Be Killing You
Last week, the Independent Climate Change Email Review panel headed by Sir Muir Russell released its report on the Climategate affair at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). Reason ’s Ronald Bailey summarized the findings as follows: “All right, people
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Sickness or Salvation at the CRU?
New cancer trend statistics being released today are heartening.
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What Growing Cancer Epidemic? – Update
