| Hispanics Face Higher Cancer Risk from Breathing Household Chemicals Elena Rios still remembers going into the bathroom as a child and smelling a pungent odor from the big, round air freshener hanging on the back of the toilet. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Climate Treaty Delayed Past Copenhagen Meeting COPENHAGEN -- Denmark's prime minister, the host of next month's U.N. climate change conference, has proposed pushing back the deadline for binding greenhouse gas emission targets until next year in hopes of salvaging a political agreement at the upcoming talks.Speaking in Singapore at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit yesterday, Lars Løkke Rasmussen proposed that next month's talks result in a political declaration on emission cuts and financing while leaving a legally binding treaty for later . [More] rss.sciam.com |
Street Smarts: The BioBus Brings a Rolling Science Lab to Resource-Strapped Schools It's halfway through first period, and 10th-grade students at Frances Perkins Academy in Brooklyn are in science class--not in school, but on a specially outfitted bus parked outside. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Snails and endangered gorillas: perfect together? How do you save critically endangered gorillas? One idea, currently being tested by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), is to introduce snails to Nigeria.More specifically, snail farming . The idea is that snail farming could provide both a revenue stream and a new source of protein for Nigerians, making the poaching of gorillas less attractive. [More] rss.sciam.com |
At Sukkah City, Religion Meets Whimsy Sukkah City in Union Square invited some cultural and artistic cross-pollination to a Jewish tradition. nytimes.com |