North America puts carbon on the map

US, Canada and Mexico agree to map their biggest emitters and best spots for carbon capture and storage


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Did asteroids flock together to build planets?

Swarms of boulders may have collapsed spontaneously under their own gravity in the early solar system, forming the building blocks of the planets


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Agricultural methods of early civilizations may have altered global climate, study suggests

Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that appears online Aug. 17 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.
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A New Test for Business and Biofuel

One of the nation’s wealthiest American Indian communities is a major investor in a start-up with the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions.


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WHO chief urges swine flu vigilance (Reuters)

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 16, 2009 (Reuters) -- The world must remain on its guard against H1N1 influenza, which has been mild so far but could become more serious as the northern hemisphere heads into winter, the head of the World Health Organization said on Sunday. ... > read full story
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Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according to a report presented here today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
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New Biomarker Predicts Response to Hepatitis C Treatment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have identified the first genetic marker that predicts response to hepatitis C treatments, and a single letter of DNA code appears to make a huge difference. Duke University Medical Center scientists says the biomarker not only predicts who is most likely to respond to treatment and who isn't, but also may explain why there are such different rates of response among racial and ethnic groups, a phenomenon that has puzzled physicians for years.
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