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Global health impacts of climate change
The biggest global health impacts are to people in developing countries, but people worldwide face some risk to their health from climate change.
March 1, 2010
Climate change links for the week
This subject has left the realm of science and become an all-out media war. Here are some climate change stories to read this week.
February 26, 2010
Going bald is an inherited trait
Baldness is a genetically-inherited trait. A bald head might have been a signal of a good mate early humans. So going bald may be a neutral trait.
February 22, 2010
Groundwater depletion across globe is alarming
Famiglietti's discovered California's Central Valley - responsible for 25% of the food consumed in the U.S. - has lost alarming rates of groundwater depletion.
February 22, 2010
Drew Shindell on regulating greenhouse gases
Drew Shindell explains why regulating greenhouse gas-emitting activity would both improve air quality and slow climate change.
February 22, 2010
Jay Zwally: Greenland ice loss is canary in coal mine
"Even if there is no additional climate warming," said Jay Zwally, "sea level will continue to rise, about 16 inches over the next hundred years."
February 22, 2010
AAAS meeting in San Diego
This AAAS meeting consists of scientific talks - hundreds of them, by some of the world's leading scientists - with many going on simultaneously.
February 19, 2010
Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet’
"Our whole view of the solar system turned upside in the 1990s when we discovered other Pluto-like planets. It's Earth that's the misfit," says Alan Stern.
February 18, 2010
Twitter users enjoy top-ranked tweets from EarthSky
Jorge Salazar has been named one of '100 Amazing Scientists You Should Follow on Twitter.' Salazar has conducted thousands of in-depth interviews.
February 15, 2010
Carol Greider on her 2009 Nobel Prize
Carol Greider figured out that an enzyme called telomerase is what prevents our chromosomes from getting smaller and smaller.
February 15, 2010
