Terminating climate change
In a snub to President Bush, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British prime minister Tony Blair signed a pact on 31 July to explore ways combat global warming. They agreed on further help for research on cleaner-burning fuels and exploring market-led ways to curb greenhouse emissions.
Breathless after 9/11
Firefighters and emergency workers exposed to dust from the collapsed World Trade Center experienced a decrease in lung function equivalent to 12 years’ age-related decline in the year following the disaster, according to a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. It says…
