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The problem with greenhouse gases is becoming so dire that Britain’s Prince Charles has declared it to be an international emergency. This is especially worrisome since explosive population and industrial growth means that China will overtake the US this year as world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases.

In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson writes that “countries in the West may control their own emissions, but this doesn’t help when major pollution is blowing over from other countries.” But a new device has been invented that could be placed on one country that would suck up carbon dioxide pollution coming from power plants and automobiles across the globe.
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Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, leading Prince Charles, in the UK, to issue an emergency ?MayDay? warning about global warming.

A new study shows that the Arctic’s ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in preparing its 2007 assessments. Both observations and the models point in the same direction: the Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing,” says researcher Marika Holland, one of the study’s co-authors.
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We know why dirt is good?but if we’re not careful, most of it may not be here anymore?and one kind of dirt can even cure cancer!

The bark of the rare Pacific yew tree is the main ingredient in the medicine Taxol, which is a major breakthrough in cancer cures. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi reports that the dirt the trees grow in contains the ingredient as well.
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There’s a reason why it’s harder to remember things than it used to be: you’ve got TOO MANY memories stuffed into your brain! But there’s an easy trick to use when you want to remember something: it has to do with moving your eyes.

New research explains why people who are able to easily and accurately recall historical dates or long-ago events may have a harder time with word recall or remembering the day’s current events. They may have too much memory?making it harder to filter out information and increasing the time it takes for new short-term memories to be processed and stored.
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