Extended coverage on climate change ahead of next month’s UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark:
official site, COP15
official Twitter, @cop15
official Facebook, cop15
Q & A on the summit, BBC News
Become an instant expert on climate change, New Scientist
Copenhagen summit 2009 homepage, BBC News
Climate SOS homepage, al Jazeera
Reporter’s diary: Arctic warming, al Jazeera
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President Obama has asked House Democrats to pass the healthcare reform bill today in a rare Saturday session. The Representatives are still debating the bill, with a vote expected around midnight.
Watch the House debate live.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D -CA) says she believes she has enough votes to pass the bill. The legislation [...]
While the public debate has primarily focused on costs and how to keep insurance companies profitable, millions of Americans have been living without health care. A study by the Harvard Medical School found that annually 45,000 deaths in the U.S. are linked to lack of health coverage. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 46.3 [...]
NASA has delivered the space shuttle Atlantis to its launch pad in anticipation of a planned November 12 launch date to take a team of six astronauts to the International Space Station for an 11-day mission, MS-NBC.
NASA is considering cutting jobs in an effort to save enough money to keep a manned mission to the [...]
The show RadioLab on WNYC examines the strange behavior of ants and the ability of the colony to make seemingly intelligent collective decisions, RadioLab, episode “Emergence“.
Researchers from many different fields have started to look at the ability of animals to naturally form a consensus, Utne.
Bees, ants, locusts [...]
Despite the apparent bounce back of the Dow Jones industrial average which recently reached 10,000 points for the first time in a year, many individuals are still feeling the effects of the economic downturn. Foreclosures in the United States were up 5% from summer to fall with 938,000 foreclosures from July to September alone. The [...]
Obituary: Edward Kennedy, BBC News.
President Barack Obama’s statement on the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy at age 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer, White House Blog.
An overview of Kennedy’s 46-year career in the U.S. Senate, in which he was instrumental in passing the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, Christian Science Monitor.
The Service [...]
