Unfairly maligned
Increasing numbers of US schools are conducting random drug tests on their pupils, but such tests can be misleading, says a report in Pediatrics (DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-3688). Of 710 drug tests performed on 110 young people over a three-year period, 85 gave incorrect results, for example by detecting prescription medicines.
Rights for reefs
Corals may soon get their own bill of rights. ReefCheck, the world’s largest coral reef monitoring organisation, has launched the International Declaration of Reef Rights. It wants 1 million people to sign up to the declaration before presenting it to the heads of state of…
