Fresh evidence on Bhopal disaster
...ately and injured at least 150,000. It remains the worst industrial disaster on record, and the victims are still dying. The company paid $470 million compensation to a trust in 1989. The survivors say they received around $500 each and claim the clean-up efforts were inadequate. Dow Chemical, which took ...New books show social side of weather and climate
...yone else interested in where to find the best and worst weather for sunbathing, skiing, or just taking a walk almost anywhere in the world. Authors from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its parent organization, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), are listed...A new twist on an age-old problem: Making knee replacements last
...ied and accurately predicted the locations of the worst wear, Fregly said. "That's pretty good for a first crack," he said. "Once this model is more complete, it could allow surgeons to rapidly select knee designs on a more individual patient basis."Scott Delp, an associate professor of biomechanical engi...Health of American Indians on decline before Columbus arrived in new world
...at the individual had had the worst possible case of the indicator, while 100 meant that the skeleton had no sign of the affliction. The healthiest group, according to the index, lived along the coast of Brazil about 1,200......nsbury plc. The findings reveal residents with the worst diet, more than doubled their fruit and vegetable consumption following the opening of the new store in 2000, although this group still ate significantly less than the Government recommended daily minimum. Professor Neil Wrigley, who directed the stu...Promising multi-strain HIV vaccine candidate emerges
...d bubonic plague of the 14th century to become the worst epidemic and deadliest disease in medical history," comments Dr. George Lewis, director of the IHV's Division of Vaccine Development. "Twenty-five million persons have died worldwide, another 40 million are infected and the numbers are rapidly escala......0 years it's been in the country. For Australia's worst feral predator, the fox, the PAC CRC team has not ...lop an immunocontraceptive virus for New Zealand's worst feral predator, the stoat, which also inflicts a heavy toll in Hawaii.......e 1998 wildfire season. Summer 1998 was one of the worst fire seasons for Florida: between mid-May and mid-July, some 2000 wildfires burned over 494,000 acres of forest in the north and central parts of the state, with total damages estimated as high as $880 million. Over 225,000 acres of southern pine pla...Cambodian government creates 1,000,000-acre protected area
... million in 2000, when the country experienced the worst flooding in 70 years. Still, there are severe threats to the Cardamoms. Wildlife trade thrives on the streets of Phnom Penh, where the skins and body parts of bears, elephants and crocodiles, among others, are for sale. Many of these products are sm...Scientists sequence genome of rice-killing fungus
...p has been taken. The genome of one of the world's worst plant blights - rice blast disease, which each year destroys enough rice to feed 60 million people worldwide - has also been sequenced. The genome of Magnaporthe grisea - the fungus that causes rice blast - is now available online at http://www-geno...Research to estimate pesticides' effects on children
...e control target. We're now realizing that was the worst possible choice. You really want the most vulnerable populations: children and pregnant women." Exposure analysis is a relatively young science, he concluded. "We still have a lot to learn at the molecular and behavioral level -- especially when it...Low hemoglobin means high risk for mobility problems in elderly women
...with hemoglobin levels under 12 g/dL performed the worst and those with hemoglobin levels between 12 g/dL and 13 g/dL performed intermediately. The risk of mobility problems for those with hemoglobin levels of 12 g/dL was more than twice as high as for those with hemoglobin levels of 13 g/dL to 14 g/dL, e...Big fish not always best, sounds might mean hurricanes and Hawaii tsunami safety
...cations most vulnerable to tsunami attacks and the worst tsunami scenarios for locations throughout Hawaii. The results should help scientists government and emergency agencies to gather accurate information quickly should an attack occur. CONTACT: Kwok Fai Cheung, Hawaii Sea Grant Researcher, Professor...Physical effort does not automatically lead to worsening of fibromyalgia symptoms
...es (VAS). The end points for pain were no pain and worst possible pain, for fatigue no fatigue and completely exhausted and for morning tiredness the end points were waking up completely refreshed and waking up completely exhausted. The FM patients reported widespread and intense pain. Thirteen out of 14...New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
A paleontologists worst nightmare: a fossil bone is found lying on the ground. Where in the earths strata did it come from? How does it fit into the evolution of that creature? Or, is the fossil even real? Now, thanks to a new geochemical method developed by Temple Univ...Environmental engineer works to resolve arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh water supplies
...six months to help solve what has been called "the worst case of natural contamination in human history." "Arguably, nowhere in the world is water so abundant and yet so scarce, than in Bangladesh," said Islam, an associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering. In a typical ...Preserving pine's genetic heritage
...a sloping, rocky ridge to an altitude of 500m. The worst bit was carrying the pine cones back to camp!...Study links El Nio to deadly South American disease
...urface temperature. The researchers found that the worst outbreaks of Bartonellosis, an insect-borne disease highly fatal to humans, are closely related to the climate event El Nio. These outbreaks occur one to three months after the warming of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean that is associated with El ...Genetic takeover threatens crayfish
...hersfound that hybridization is common. One of the worst cases is BirchLake,Wisconsin, where only a fourth of the crayfish still have northernclearwater crayfish genes and the entire population already looksexactlylike rusty crayfish. "Wherever the two taxa meet, [the rusty crayfish] ecologically displaces......nt questions learned through discovery methods and worst on experimental design questions learned through discovery methods. Conclusion: Results indicate that students had greater achievement on the content they learned through discovery methods compared with lecture-based instruction. Moreover, the fin...