Ones that got away - June 25, 2009
“We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high.”
Lara Giddings, the attorney general for Tasmania, reveals an unexpected side-effect of growing poppies for medicine (BBC).
“We don’t have any plans to change colours at this time.”
John Huston, of the company that owns Chicago’s iconic Sears Tower, says wind turbines, roof gardens and solar panels are all coming in, but the building will not be painted silver to save energy (AP).
“The large majority of subsidies are spent on vessels fishing stock that are already overfished.”
Marcus Knigge, of Pew Environment Group, says EU fishing subsides have been making fish stocks worse (Guardian).
“Sharks are very vulnerable to over-fishing because they tend to grow and mature slowly and have a small number of young. Demand for shark fins is a driving force in over- fishing of sharks worldwide.”
Sonja Fordham is co-author of a new study painting another depressingly bleak picture of the state of our sharks (Bloomberg).
“I’m hopeful that half or more of the patients that undergo stem cell transplantation may either be cured or have a long-term remission. We think it’s likely that about 50% of people [in the trial] will be cured.”
Chris Hawkey, a gastroenterologist at Nottingham University, reports good news from his clinical trial of a Crohn’s disease treatment (Guardian).
