Corpses can wait
Bodies piling up in Haiti pose a minimal disease risk and don’t need to be instantly buried or disinfected, the World Health Organization says. Instead, resources should be focused on the living. In a natural disaster, where most people were healthy up to their death, the WHO considers survivors more likely to spread disease than corpses.
IPCC checks its facts
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is reviewing its claim that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. The claim, published in its 2007 report, was traced back to a statement in a Â鶹´«Ã½ article. The…
