Monthly Archives: January 2009
Mercury Found In Everyday Food Products
Many of the snacks you and your family enjoy are flavored with high-fructose corn syrup. A new study reveals that many of those products contain some levels of mercury — a poison that can hamper brain development and cause serious kidney...
Weight Loss Helps Women Reduce Urinary Incontinence
Losing weight helps women reduce urinary incontinence, according to a clinical trial co-authored by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher and published in the January 29th,2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The...
A Red Alert to Save Women
Campaign warns that heart disease is the No. 1 killer
Judy Waters wants other women to know what she nearly found out the hard way —- heart disease is the leading cause of death among women worldwide.
“One day I was rocking and rolling,...
Carbon Dioxide a “Pollutant”?
Governments often find it useful to have an enemy on whom it can blame a need to raise taxes and/or take away individual rights from its citizens. Real people such as WWII-era Japanese Prime Minister Tojo and personifications like Johnny Reb...
Al Gore and Venus Envy
Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman — and it’s simply out of this world.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Gore observed...
The Greenhouse Effect and the Bathtub Effect
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A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums-long imprint on climate and sea levels, focuses on a...
Rising Acidity Is Threatening Food Web of Oceans
The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But this benefit has a catch: as the gas dissolves, it makes seawater more acidic. Now an international panel...
Do Volcanoes Change the Climate?
Mother Nature can sustain life, inspire artists, and mystify scientists.
And sometimes she explodes.
It looks like that last one could be about to happen southern Alaska. Mount Redoubt, an active stratovolcano in the state’s Aleutian Range,...
Japan Launches Satellite to Eye Greenhouse Gases
The Japanese space agency launched a satellite 23 Friday 2009 that will measure greenhouse gases from the earth’s orbit.
The IBUKI satellite is designed “to observe the concentration distribution of greenhouse gases that cause global...
Hong Kong Residents Have Twice Footprint of China’s
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Hong Kong residents are using nearly twice the resources of citizens of mainland China, according to an ecological footprint assessment by WWF Hong Kong and the Global Footprint Network (GFN).
Hong Kong’s ecological footprint...