Simulated jet lag proves deadly for aged mice
Unusual schedules of light and darkness took a deadly toll on elderly mice in tests, suggesting that working unusual shifts and flying back and forth across time zones could have ill effects on
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Parched in Australia
Australia long hot summer has barely begun but already the dams are running dry, crops are stunted form lack of water and livestock markets are being over whelmed by farmers trying to sell
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Chinese emissions accelerate rapidly
China will surpass the united states in 2009 nearly a decade ahead of previous predictions as the biggest emitter of the main gas linked to global warming the International Energy Agency
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High levels of lead found in schoolchildren
Forty seven primary school children in eastern China have been found to have excessive lead in their blood the latest such case to hit the country. Test of the children in Qili, Fujian Province
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Little common ground as climate talks open
Climate negotiators are gathering in Nairobi for their 12th conference since 1992 with the World divided into three seemingly inflexible blocs on what to do about global warming.
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Heading off global overheating
Except to a few holdouts, the scientific case for the existence and dangers of global warming - that the climate is a changing, that human activities are largely responsible, and that the
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KFC takes unhealthy fat out of its fried chicken
The war against trans fat registered a major victory as Kentucky Fried Chicken - whose main course is deep fried - announced that it would remove the artery-clogging substance from its fryers. KFC
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Britain issues call for green growth
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the World Wars and the Great Depression, a report said Monday, as Britain opened a campaign to convince doubters that
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Budgets falling in race to fight global warming
DENVER Cheers fit for a revival meeting swept a hotel ballroom as 1,800 entrepreneurs and experts watched a PowerPoint presentation of the most promising technologies for limiting global warming:
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In a Venezuelan town, defiance on mining ban
LA PARAGUA, Venezuela This dusty, remote river port in southeastern Venezuela feels a bit like a latter-day Deadwood. Dreams of striking it rich in gold or diamonds have drawn about 5,000 people to