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...Bonn meetings weren't totally devoid of progress. One of the main questions facing global-climate negotiators is what should be done about tropical deforestation, since the logging and burning of trees is responsible for a fifth or more of global carbon emissions. The current Kyoto Protocol doesn't address the issue, and many - though not all - environmentalists would like to add avoided deforestation to a new global climate deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report...
...give,” added fellow panelist David Blackbourn, director of the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard. In addition, Moomaw stated that one hurdle to significant environmental progress comes from “scientific doubters” who believe that taking immediate steps to address climate change is unnecessary and potentially counterproductive without further knowledge. “But what they don’t understand,” Moomaw said, “is that learning and instituting regulation can go together.” Similarly, he claimed that the slow implementation of environmental policy...
...Days Later.” Though zombies have become progressively more physically complex throughout film history, the mystery hiding behind those ashen complexions in the mind of the undead still remains unclear. However, Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Science On Screen program will address this bloodless brainteaser on April 13 when it reveals an empirical explanation for zombification.The Science On Screen series focuses on films and documentaries that have a distinct, intriguing, or comical connection to areas of scientific inquiry, and it invites noted scientists and other academics to explain the science behind the screenings’ subjects. Next...
...SEAS.PHYSICS FOR ALLMurray says she was attracted to SEAS by its interdisciplinary nature and focus on applied science—while always keeping the question “Why am I doing this?” in mind.“We have some serious problems that Harvard can address, including global health, clean energy technologies, figuring out what is happening to the climate system and the planet, and finding economic security,” Murray says. “In all of those areas, SEAS is absolutely perfect for Harvard to have a major impact.” Echoing...
...Embryonic-stem-cell research, for instance, wasn't an issue during the presidential campaign, in large part because John McCain and Obama both support it. Candidate Obama pledged to reverse the ban on stem-cell funding, and his Inaugural Address - in which he vowed to "restore science to its rightful place" - served notice that he would not wait long to do so. So it didn't come as a surprise to Catholics when, on the morning of March 9, the President signed an Executive Order allowing research on embryonic stem cells to go forward after an eight-year halt. Obama...