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DIED. MARTIN D. KAMEN, 89, blacklisted physical biochemist who helped discover radioactive carbon 14, which was crucial to understanding basic chemical processes; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After being shunned by the scientific community amid rumors that he had leaked atom-bomb secrets to the Soviets, he won belated recognition in 1996, receiving the Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement...
SOUTH AFRICA Baby Steps Toward Tomorrow The earth summit in Johannesburg ended on an unexpected upbeat note for the Green lobby. Russia and Canada announced they will seek to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Their decision means the treaty, including its system of trading rights to emit carbon, should now be able to take effect. Other achievements of the summit included an agreement on water and sanitation. Governments pledged to halve the number of people (about 1.1 billion) lacking clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. Delegates also agreed that international trade deals will no longer be able...
Sources for map Land use: NASA/Boston University department of Geography; urbanization: NASA Visible Earth City Lights; U.N. Population Fund, 2000; Amazon deforestation: ActGlobal.org/Instituto Socioambiental; coral reefs: World Resources Institute: Reefs at Risk; carbon-dioxide emissions: Energy information Administration; trouble spots: AP; U.N. Environment Program, Global Warming Early Warning Signs 1999; World Resources Institute...
...must do better than we are doing. We should cap carbon emissions from power plants and make cars and trucks more efficient. Renewable fuels like ethanol from corn and other biomass sources can displace oil in vehicles, if we help create the opportunity...
...buying and selling of permits for greenhouse gases is permitted under the Kyoto treaty to combat climate change. Despite the rejection of the pact by the U.S., other major governments, including Japan, have ratified it, and trading in permits for carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, is increasing in Europe. In the U.S., many executives who expect eventually to face more rigorous laws are eager to get experience coping with caps. "We really have endeavored to construct a program that will be highly credible and successful--and by success we mean it will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions," says Dale Heydlauff...