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This week on Dreamland, Linda Howe reports on the frightening disappearance of thousands of bees. Since these are the insects that pollinate the flowers of the foods we eat, this could be the start of a major emergency.

This is a problem in the US that has been reported in around half the states and has now spread to Canada. The UK and eight other European countries also report the same problem: Spain, Poland, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, and Germany. Jasper Copping reports in the British Telegraph newspaper that in London, over 4,000 hives in London alone, two-thirds of the bees are missing. Sometimes the dead bees are found, but often the bees seem to have simply disappeared.
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Thanks to a recent court decision, we can look forward to cars that are less polluting. Soon we may be able to buy a car that can fix itself.

Researchers are working to create metals that “remember” their original shapes and that, with the application of a small amount of heat, can snap back to their original shapes. This means that a fender-bender will no longer result in huge repair bills. In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes engineer Taher Saif as saying, “We showed for the first time that metal can snap back after deformation.”
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We humans have been trying to figure out how we will be affected by global warming, and we realize that other species, such as penguins and polar bears, are vulnerable as well. But something we rarely notice?coral?may perish in the warmer waters, and this will effect the fish we humans eat.

While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their survival.

According to biologist Drew Harvell, the warm temperatures that have been occurring worldwide as a result of global warming appear to be creating fatal epidemics in coral reefs across the globe.
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We have been following the fortunes of Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who is fighting extradition from to the US, where our government wants to try him for hacking into NASA computers in order to obtain information about UFOs. If convicted, he could end up in Guantanamo. He has just lost an appeal. Subscribers can still listen to our Dreamland interview with McKinnon.

In TechNewsWorld.com, Katherine Noyes reports that McKinnon lost is extradition appeal last week in Britain’s high court, but he can still appeal to the House of Lords.
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