Recent cuts to the scientific workforce of Environment Canada, a government agency responsible for meteorological services and environmental research, threaten scientific research related to the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere and pollution in the lower atmosphere, according to environmental scientists in the U.S.
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT, Feb. 12, 2012 – A quick trip to Afghanistan this week, and meetings with leaders and troops there, encouraged the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Afghan National Security Forces will be ready by 2014 to take the combat lead.
FREDERICK DARREN BERG, 49, of Mercer Island, Washington, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 18 years in prison, and three years of supervised release for wire fraud, money laundering, and bankruptcy fraud.