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Scientists: Climate change could harm Maui plant
2013-01-16 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Scientists say the outlook is bleak for a rare Maui plant if current climate change trends continue. They say the Haleakala silversword plant is increasingly under stress as the Maui volcano gets warmer and drier. University of Hawaii biologist Paul Krushelnycky said Tuesday the plant illustrates how even well-protected and relatively abundant species may succumb to climate-induced stress. He co-authored a paper on the topic published this week in the journal Global Change Biology. Animals eating...
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02.17: Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
2013-01-15 00:37:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. With his characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Faber & Faber) reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.
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Has the Kyoto protocol done more harm than good?
2013-01-03 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Fifteen years after its painful birth in Kyoto, Japan, the world's first legally binding agreement to limit emissions of greenhouse gases ended this week. For some it is a victorious conclusion. The 37 industrial nations that stuck with the protocol after the US pulled out in 2005 say they exceeded their promises, cutting their emissions for the period from 2008 to 2012 to an average of 16 per cent below 1990 levels, compared with the 4.7 per cent promised in the agreement. But the protocol...
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