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climate change

Toxic Emissions Theater in Bali

Over the weekend, the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali came to an action-packed conclusion. The United States got bitchslapped by a delegate from Papua New Guinea — who told the US to "get out of the way" if it wasn't going to be a leader in reducing toxic emissions — and the delegates stayed up all night to produce a document promising to produce more documents in 2009. So what's the real upshot? Will San Francisco be submerged in 2020? More »

11:00 AM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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clones

United Nations Urges Human Rights for Clones (Sort Of)

Now that human clones are everywhere, how should we treat them? It's not just Clonaid asking anymore. The United Nations has just released a policy report saying that if we cannot reach global consensus on banning human cloning, we'll have to cope with a world full of human clones. And you know what that means. We could be facing a massive Clone Lib movement! So what does the most powerful body of international wonkitude recommend we do about the coming clone peril? More »

8:01 AM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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