Cod catches up
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
In an annual meeting on European Union fisheries last week, ministers talked about the ones that got away.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
In an annual meeting on European Union fisheries last week, ministers talked about the ones that got away.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
While my colleagues were sitting down to the office canteen’s Christmas lunch yesterday, I was down at London’s Geological Society looking at powerpoint slides of decaying corpses. Christmas may come once a year, but it’s only every other year that the Forensic Geoscience Group holds a conference.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Technology
Researchers have released a map showing where in the US you are most likely to die in a natural disaster. Such acts of God do not, of course, smite the country evenly.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology
Seven genes have been newly linked to obesity in humans, thanks to two big sequence-sifting studies published in Nature Genetics this week.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
Rolling Stone headlines it “Bush’s Final FU”: the US Department of the Interior yesterday released last-minute regulations weakening protections for endangered species.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
The entire Liberian delegation showed up late to the UN climate change conference in Poznan, Poland. The reported reason: slothlike Polish bureacrats. They had to wait out the talks’ first week in Nigeria, where other African attendees were also held up, before the Polish embassy there granted them visas.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Physics & Mathematics, Technology
Brits and Kiwis got curious about the Large Hadron Collider this year, according to newly released search stats from Google. But nobody else did.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology
Dogs get jealous when given unequal rewards for their faithful obedience, according to a new PNAS paper being mediafied with gusto.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Health and medicine
Only last week, according to the BBC, the Zimbabwean government said that the cholera epidemic rampaging through the country since August and making news since late October was not an emergency. Now a national emergency has officially been declared, reports the local state-controlled Herald. Economic ruin under Mugabe’s regime has closed hospitals and apparently left the country helpless in the face of a treatable disease.
Posted by Anna Barnett | Categories: Earth, environment & ecology
With UN climate change bigwig Yvo De Boer waving from the passenger seat, the first solar-powered car to travel around the world completed its journey yesterday by smashing through a wall of polystyrene bricks at the climate conference in Poznan, Poland.
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