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Penn State Climatologist Cleared of Scientific Misconduct
Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael E. Mann was largely cleared of wrongdoing by an academic panel over controversial e-mail messages hacked from the University of East Anglia in England, but a second panel will determine whether his conduct undermined public confidence in the science of climate change.
Meanwhile, the Guardian looked into whether Phil Jones, the British climate scientist at the center of the leaked e-mail controversy, stymied public information requests by withholding key temperature data on which some of his work was based.
In other climate and environmental news, the New York Times looked at the ecological consequences of the spread of coal mining in southeastern Australia's Upper Hunter Valley.
And International Paper Co. and MeadWestvaco Corp. plan to transform tree farming in the southeastern U.S. by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, a rapidly growing Australian tree. A controversial gene splice will restrict the trees' ability to reproduce, which the companies hope will quiet fears that the eucalyptus will overrun native forests.
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