Archive for Listopad, 2010

Harvard University Doctor Turns Back Time on Aging: Will an Anti-Aging Pill Be Available Soon? (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork – Harvard University’s Doctor Ronald DePinho has conducted a scientific study that has shown that aging can be reversed in mice. Will this result occur also in humans? And, if so, how will it change the process of aging? In addition to his work at Harvard University, DePinho is also a cancer geneticist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

US escapes major hurricanes for 5th straight year (AP)

AP – The Atlantic hurricane season ends Tuesday, going down as one of the busiest on record but blissfully sparing the U.S. coastline a major hurricane for a fifth straight year.

EPA fines West’s largest toxic waste dump $300,000 (AP)

AP – A vast toxic waste dump at the center of a birth defects controversy in Central California has been fined more than $300,000 for allowing cancer-causing chemicals to leach into the soil, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

US environmentalists urge bluefin tuna boycott (AFP)

A sushi selection made from bluefin tuna. A US environmental group on Tuesday urged consumers to boycott bluefin tuna after a conference of major fishing nations left the eastern Atlantic catch largely unchanged.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP – A US environmental group on Tuesday urged consumers to boycott bluefin tuna after a conference of major fishing nations left the eastern Atlantic catch largely unchanged.

Flooding leaves deadly trail of destruction in Venezuela (AFP)

A girl carries a mattress, rescued from her house after a landslide due to heavy rains at Roca Tarpeya neighborhood, in Caracas. Days of driving rain have sparked massive flooding in Venezuela that has killed at least 21 people and left thousands homeless, Vice President Elias Jaua said Tuesday.(AFP/Miguel Gutierrez)AFP – Days of driving rain have sparked massive flooding in Venezuela that has killed at least 21 people and left thousands homeless, Vice President Elias Jaua said Tuesday.

Tiny blood vessels show pollution, heart disease link (AFP)

By photographing tiny blood vessels in a person's eyes, researchers have found a way to link exposure to air pollution with a higher risk of heart disease, a study published Tuesday said.(AFP/File/Karen Bleier)AFP – „New digital photos of the retina revealed that otherwise healthy people exposed to high levels of air pollution had narrower retinal arterioles, an indication of a higher risk of heart disease,” said the study in PLoS Medicine.

Mexican leader: Move on from climate blame game (AP)

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Cancun, Mexico, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. Calderon is in Cancun to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference that is the first full U.N. meeting since the letdown last December of the Copenhagen summit, which brought 120 world leaders to the Danish capital in an abortive attempt to adopt an overarching accord governing emissions of made-made greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.  (AP Photo/Israel Leal)AP – Stuck in a blame game led by „big players” U.S. and China, the rest of the world should take on the climate crisis more aggressively „with or without them,” says Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

15 people hurt as storms tear through Miss., La. (AP)

A worker cleans up glass and debris from a shattered window at Grace Hardware in downtown Yazoo City, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 as some business owners and residents start cleanup of damages caused by a possible twister Monday night. Severe weather was reported throughout the state Monday night and Tuesday morning, including some areas that are still recovering from a April tornado.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP – Clarence Taylor slipped on a pair of gloves Tuesday and went to work cleaning up damage from the possible tornado that tore through his hometown. He knows the drill — another twister devastated the area in April, leaving a path of destruction nearly a mile wide and killing a dozen people.

Old rifts mar U.N. climate talks on "balanced deal" (Reuters)

Members of environmental organizations protest outside the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador November 30, 2010, to demand that the U.S. sign the Kyoto treaty on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that is being held in Cancun, Mexico. The talks are seeking a successor for the U.N.'s 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which obliges almost 40 developed nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. The U.S. never joined Kyoto, believing it would cost U.S. jobs and excluded developing nations.  REUTERS/Luis Galdamez  (EL SALVADOR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)Reuters – Old splits between rich and poor nations re-emerged on Tuesday over a plan to slow global warming, but both sides maintained a „balanced package” is the goal of U.N. talks in Mexico.

Private Rocket Builder to Launch Demo Flights From Florida (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – A private rocket development company has struck a deal that
could allow for demonstration launches of its reusable suborbital spacecraft from
Florida.