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Study: 10 pct. of Mexicans may emigrate to US due to climate change, decreased crop yields
Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed. “Depending on the warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed… climate change is estimated to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million adult…
Study: Fallujah’s health fallout ‘worse’ than Hiroshima, Nagasaki
‘Mutagenic and carcinogenic agents’ blamed for soaring infant mortality, cancers In Fallujah, a city just 50 miles from Baghdad, life has never been the same since April 2004, when U.S. Marines declared the entire area a free-fire zone and proceeded to do what Marines do best. Packing the most destructive…
Study: Attack on Iran would be ‘start of long war’
Iran’s response to an attack could send oil prices through the roof, think tank argues An Israeli attack on Iran would fail to stop Tehran’s alleged nuclear weapons program and would lead to a “long war” that would be marked by economic instability and mass civilian casualties, says a study…
Study links Vatican Radio’s waves to cancer risk: report
VATICAN CITY  A court-ordered study has found that electromagnetic waves beamed by Vatican Radio leave residents living near the station’s antennas at a higher risk of cancer, Italian media said Wednesday. “There has been an important, coherent and meaningful correlation between exposure to Vatican Radio’s structures and the risk…
Study: If California legalizes marijuana, prices could drop up to 80 pct.
A study released Thursday by the Rand Corporation claims that marijuana prices in a post-legalization California could drop by up to 80 percent, placing some of the most delicately cultivated buds in the world at less than $40 an ounce. An initiative that would legalize California’s most valuable cash crop…
Study: US media redefined torture after US started practicing it
The US news media radically changed how it reported on the issue of waterboarding after it emerged that US forces had used the practice, says a new study from Harvard University. The study also found a double standard when defining waterboarding, with news sources commonly referring to waterboarding as “torture”…
Stewart: GOP called BP fund a ‘shakedown’ before they didn’t
Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP and remarks that the $20 billion escrow fund was a “shakedown” received condemnation from fellow members of the Republican Party last week but 114 members of the Republican Study Committee had signed onto the “shakedown” talking point only days before. Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart…
Study: US missile defense plans based on ‘technical myths’
Scientists fear ‘flawed and dangerous’ plan will result in ‘foreign policy disaster’ US missile defense plans are based on “technical myths” and interceptors have mostly failed to knock out incoming warheads in military tests, a new study argues. Two American scientists reviewed 10 tests of the SM-3 “kill vehicle,” designed…
Study: Single black women have median net worth of only $5
A new study from the Center for Community Economic Development indicates that single black women, even in their peak earning years, have a median net worth of only $5. As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the study also found that single white women between 36 and 49 have a median…
Study: Haiti quake devastation worse than 2004 tsunami
The scale of devastation in Haiti is far worse than in Asia after the 2004 tsunami, a study said Tuesday, predicting last month’s quake could be the most destructive disaster in modern history. The stark assessment from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) comes with Port-au-Prince still lying in ruins more…
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