More for Earth Day and Overpopulation the Worst Problem and More for Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Earth Day

http://www.earthday.net/

Ontario to mark Earth Day with cosmetic pesticide ban

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/04/21/ont-pesticides.html

Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418075752.htm

Overpopulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation

Features Of Early Martian Environment And Presence Of Water Drive Search For Life Forms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125214.htm

Polo pony deaths baffle US vets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8010121.stm

Are Cyclones Feeding Global Warming?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121421.htm

Rivers Losing Water Due to Climate Change

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090421/sc_livescience/riverslosingwaterduetoclimatechange;_ylt=AgigKjoYRENA2VLrp_Q5vSYPLBIF

China says planning more dams on troubled Yangtze

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090421/wl_asia_afp/chinaenvironmentdamenergy;_ylt=Aon6jPMMKB4D4jZATNtGgqsPLBIF

Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121335.htm

Oxfam warns of climate disasters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8009412.stm

Carbon Dioxide Snatched From The Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121342.htm

Early Oxygen Rich Atmosphere? Origins Of Sulfur In Rocks Tells Early Oxygen Story

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144527.htm

Urban Centers With Most Polluted Air: North East Of Barcelona And South East Of Madrid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105344.htm

New contaminants threaten Ontario lakes and rivers: report

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/21/water-quality.html

EU commission urges fishing cuts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008939.stm

Nations must not 'snatch defeat from jaws of victory' by failing to save carbon markets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8000156.stm

Ecological debt: No way back from bankrupt

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988648.stm

Breastfeeding 'protects mother'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8008678.stm

Epilepsy: Exposure To Valproate During Pregnancy Can Impair A Child's Cognitive Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415172227.htm

Cancer brake 'could halt disease'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8007023.stm

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420151240.htm

Humanized Mouse Infected With HIV Vaginally And Rectally Allows Testing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103740.htm

Smoke From Cigarettes, Cooking Oil, Wood, Shift Male Cardiovascular System Into Overdrive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417084119.htm

Fears over web health revolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8008361.stm

First Broad-spectrum Anti-microbial Paint To Kill 'Superbugs'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121425.htm

Food agency chief under fire at listeriosis probe

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/21/listeriosis-probe-cfia021.html


Damage To Forests From Climate Change Could Cost The Planet Its Major Keeper Of Greenhouse Gases, Study Warns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417084128.htm

Dramatic Baby Lemur Rescue

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7383252

Rejected baby kangaroo gets life-saving milk at Belgrade zoo

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090421/K042102AU.html

Lizards Bask In The Sun For A Vitamin D Boost

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420182224.htm

Lizard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard

Millions pledged to reverse bee decline

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/21/britain.bees.decline/index.html

Colony Collapse Disorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder

Tulip Entered Europe Through Al-Andalus Five Centuries Earlier Than Believed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105353.htm

Tulipa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip

Al-Andalus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

Mangrove Forests Save Lives In Storms, Study Of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414172924.htm

Mangrove forest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_forest

Chemists Synthesize Herbal Alkaloid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415172239.htm

Club moss (Lycopodium serratum)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Moss


'Natural' Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria Protect Soybeans From Aphids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414110818.htm

Complex molecules seen in space

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8009014.stm

ethyl formate and n-propyl cyanide

Primitive Interstellar Dust Samples Provide Pre-solar Time Capsules

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421080504.htm

Bottling moonshine... do lunar cycles affect the taste of wine?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8008167.stm

Best Intentions: Presence Of Healthy Food Can Lead To Unhealthy Choices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420170915.htm

Turmeric: India's 'Holy Powder' Finally Reveals Its Centuries-old Secret

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420123051.htm

Curcuma longa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric

Curcumin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcumin

Following the Bronze Age DNA trail from the Mediterranean to Wales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8007969.stm

2 Calif. animal rights activists indicted

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_us/animal_rights_violence;_ylt=AodPM1o53ZzoELBFNXlUengPLBIF

Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/20/ufo.conference/index.html

Edgar Mitchell