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Climate Change Has Major Impact On Oceans

ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2008)
Climate change is rapidly transforming the world’s oceans by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater, and altering atmospheric and oceanic circulation, reported a panel of scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston.

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Is it Getting Too Warm for Penguins?

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH - www.time.com
King penguins are supposed to be a wildlife success story. The flightless Antarctic bird — the second-biggest penguin after its movie-star emperor cousin — was hunted into near-extinction by sailors in the 19th century, who used their fat as cooking oil. When the slaughter […]

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Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat?

Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 By ALICE PARK - www.time.com
 
When it comes to dieting, most of us are willing to resort to a trick or two to help us curb our appetite and eat less — drinking water to fill up when we’re hungry, for example, or opting for artificial sweeteners instead of […]

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The Trouble With Biofuels

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH
www.time.com
Maybe it was simply too good to be true. For proponents, biofuels — petroleum substitutes made from plant matter like corn or sugar cane — seemed to promise everything. Using biofuels rather than oil would reduce the greenhouse gases that accelerate global warming, because plants […]

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Your Steak: Medium, Rare or Cloned?

Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 By TIFFANY SHARPLES
www.time.com
 
Last month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of cloned meat in the U.S., having determined that products from cloned cattle, pigs and goats are as safe to eat as meat from their naturally reproduced brethren. That makes advocates happy: Cloning enables the […]

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Artificial Playmates for Autistic Children

By Elsa Youngsteadt
ScienceNOW Daily News
15 February 2008
BOSTON–Children with autism spectrum disorder are unable to sustain play, make-believe games, and fluid social interaction–at least with real people. But psychologist and linguist Justine Cassell of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that interaction with virtual peers releases hidden social skills in these children.

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Biofuels: Worse for Earth Than Oil?

Clearing raw land to produce biofuels actually contributes to global warming by emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, researchers have warned.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new croplands carved into rainforests, savannas, wetlands or grasslands would easily surpass the overall amount of CO2 emissions reduced through the use of biofuels, according to a […]

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Smoking Will Kill 1 Billion People

One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
At a press conference held in midtown Manhattan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed $2 million to conduct […]

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Are Plastic Baby Bottles Harmful?

If a new report is to be believed, an entire generation of children has grown up drinking a toxic chemical from their earliest months: bisphenol A. A consortium of North American environmental and health groups released a paper Thursday showing that many major-brand baby bottles leach bisphenol A, and is now calling for a moratorium […]

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