Month: August 2008

Calgary Herald: The provincial government and petroleum sector — already facing criticism over “dirty oil”…

Innovations Report: Dramatic year-to-year temperature swings and a century-long warming trend across West Antarctica are…

Reuters: An international fund to protect the Amazon forest launched by Brazil this month marks…

Reuters: With global warming expected to hit Africa hard, some companies in the “forgotten continent”…

Results showed significant associations among built-environment factors and the prevalence of overweight/obesity and various forms…

Genomics is accelerating improvements for converting plant biomass into biofuel — as an alternative to…

Scientists have unveiled a functional link between production of new neurons and the effectiveness of…

Allison Hansen, a doctoral student in entomology at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered…

A drug that sequesters white blood cells in lymph nodes can allow mice to fight…

Elephant seals are helping scientists overcome a critical blind-spot in their ability to detect change…