“If you take a bath there, you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment.”
Chemist Klaus Kuemmerer of the University of Freiburg Medical Center, Germany, on the finding that streams around Hyderabad, India, contain unprecedented levels of antibiotics (Associated Press, 26 January)
“Unlike other Antarctic bird species that have altered their life cycles, penguins don’t catch on so quickly.”
Stephanie Jenouvrier of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, whose research on the effects of climate change predicts that emperor penguin numbers are likely to plummet by 95 per cent by 2100 (BBC News online, 26 January)
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