Blog posting – “We’re pleased to announce that figshare is the first research data repository to join the DPN Federation. Research data made public on figshare will be deposited into DPN, a dark archive that preserves scholarship for future generations. figshare users can guarantee that long-term access to their scholarly resources will be protected in the event… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Subcommittee on Nutrition RE: Past, Present, and Future of SNAP
U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition – Addressing Special Populations, Testimony of Abby J. Leibman, President and CEO MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Washington, DC, January 12, 2016. “Perhaps the best way to prevent hunger among veterans is to protect and strengthen the SNAP program. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that SNAP… Continue Reading
Global data – Women only earn now what men did a decade ago
World Economic Forum: “Despite an additional quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, wage inequality persists, with women only now earning what men did a decade ago, according the Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2015. The global gender gap across health, education, economic opportunity and politics has closed by only 4%… Continue Reading
Commercial fishing harvesting larger catches – threatening future of the seas
Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining – Nature Communications 7, Article number:10244doi:10.1038/ncomms10244 “Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational ‘catch reconstruction’ project covering the… Continue Reading
Coverage for Abortion Services in Medicaid, Marketplace Plans and Private Plans
Kaiser Family Foundation news release – “State and federal efforts to address insurance and Medicaid coverage of abortion services began soon after the 1973 Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion and have continued to the present day. Starting in 1977, the Hyde Amendment banned the use of any federal funds for abortion, allowing only exceptions for pregnancies that endanger… Continue Reading
IRE 2015 Philip Meyer Award winners for data-driven investigation
IRE is proud to announce the 2015 Philip Meyer Award winners – “A data-driven investigation that exposed the human cost of school resegregation in central Florida is the first-place winner of the 2015 Philip Meyer Journalism Award. Investigations that explored the growth of diversity in American cities and revealed the small cadre of attorneys who… Continue Reading
Watch 118 Bird Species Migrate Across a Map of the Western Hemisphere
Cornell Lab of Ornithology – “For the first time, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have documented migratory movements of bird populations spanning the entire year for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisphere. The study finds broad similarity in the routes used by specific groups of species—vividly demonstrated by animated maps showing patterns of… Continue Reading
Weather Webcams provides view of storm in DC, Maryland
Via DC, MD, VA Department of Transportation – you will see on these respective web cams that there is no traffic at all, and few if any people on any streets anywhere in our area. With windchill factor in around 10 degrees and more than 2 feet of snow on the ground and still falling,… Continue Reading
2016 Best Countries – US News
“The 2016 Best Countries report and rankings are based on how global perceptions define countries in terms of a number of qualitative characteristics, impressions that have the potential to drive trade, travel and investment and directly affect national economies. Sixty nations were measured in the inaugural report.” Continue Reading
The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics
Ellen MacArthur Foundation: “The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics provides for the first time a vision of a global economy in which plastics never become waste, and outlines concrete steps towards achieving the systemic shift needed. The report, financially supported by the MAVA Foundation, was produced as part of Project MainStream, a… Continue Reading
EPA Announces 2014 Toxics Release Inventory Report
“In 2014, 84% of the 25 billion pounds of toxic chemical waste managed at the nation’s industrial facilities was not released into the environment due to the use of preferred waste management practices like recycling, energy recovery and treatment, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report. The remaining… Continue Reading
International banking statistics at end-September 2015
“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today released international banking statistics at end-September 2015. Cross-border bank lending shrank for the second consecutive quarter, due mainly to falling claims on emerging market economies (EMEs). The global contraction of $151 billion between end-June and end-September 2015 was smaller than the previous quarter’s and left outstanding claims at… Continue Reading
