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