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...division of responsibility between developed nations like the U.S. - historically, the biggest carbon emitters - and big developing nations like China, set to become the major carbon emitters. The U.S. under President George W. Bush in particular has insisted that since developing nations will be responsible for the vast majority of future carbon emissions, no climate agreement can work without mandatory action from poorer countries. Developing nations insist that rich nations need to go first, hence the standoff that has largely frozen international action on climate change for the past several years...
...folks have downloaded the latest version of the Web's second most popular browser. (If you're not among them, hie thee to www.getfirefox.com I'll wait for you.) While Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the most installed browser in the world--mainly because it ships on the vast majority of new PCs--Firefox is the one that tech folks tend to love. Free, open source and built by thousands of volunteers worldwide, Firefox is kind of the Web's home-team favorite--as independent and full of promise as the Internet itself. Firefoxers even tried...
...reasons the oceans soak up so much carbon is that phytoplankton--microscopic floating plants--love it, feasting on it and taking it out of circulation. The problem is, there are vast regions where the water is iron poor and plankton languish. The amount of iron the plants need and aren't getting is tiny--less than 20 lb. per sq. mi. (3 kg per sq km) by some estimates. If this were pumped as a diluted slurry into the wake of a ship steaming back and forth like a tractor seeding a field, the plankton would bloom and global...
...jihad, some experts contend, has moved beyond Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Dr. Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer, lays out the view in his new book, Leaderless Jihad, arguing that "the present threat has evolved from a structured group of al-Qaeda masterminds controlling vast resources and issuing commands to a multitude of informal groups trying to emulate their predecessors by conceiving and executing operations from the bottom up. These 'homegrown' wannabes form a scattered global network, a leaderless jihad." According to this assessment, two decades since its founding in Peshawar, Pakistan, al-Qaeda remains a source...
...plenty of beefs in his hard-knocks life, but the hugely successful Brooklyn rapper and entrepreneur didn't expect a showdown over his plan to visit Michael Eavis's dairy farm in rural England this weekend. The farm is currently surrounded by the vast, temporary canvas city known as the Glastonbury Festival, a massive outdoor music and performing arts festival which the 72-year-old Eavis has hosted since 1970. Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Chao, Fatboy Slim and hundreds of other acts will perform on over a dozen stages starting Friday...