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The roof of the world is melting, turning large parts of China into a desert. The Chinese Academy of Sciences says the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau are melting so quickly that they are getting 50% smaller every 10 years. Meanwhile, here in the US, the Society of Landscape Architects wants everyone to have a green roof. This doesn’t mean you should put green shingles on your house?it means that you should grow plants there.

Geoffrey Lean writes in the Independent that global warming is turning large areas into desert. As China gets drier, more dust begins to blow, in a country already famous for its treacherous dust storms.
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Humans and chimps share about 98% of their DNA, and now scientists have discovered monkeys that can talk to each other?in complete sentences.

Genevi?ve Roberts reports in the Independent that using words to make sentences?and using the same word for the same thing over and over?is what we call “syntax,” and putty-nosed monkeys in Africa can do this too. Two of their basic sounds, “Pyows” and “Hacks,” are used to warn against two different predators: a Pywow is a leopard and a Hack is an eagle. But when the words are combined, the sentence means “Let’s go,” which is sort of like the human phrase “Let’s roll,” which was used by the Flight 93 passengers.
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Scientists like to investigate a lot of things that the rest of us take for granted. Like whispers?how do we hear them, anyway?

Robert Roy Britt writes in LiveScience.com that there’s a tiny organ inside your ear call the cochlea, which looks like a snail shell. It transforms sounds into nerve impulses that then travel to the hairs deep inside your ear, then on to your brain, allowing you to hear. But why is it twisted so tightly?
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If you’re too fat, you need to figure out why before you can lose weight successfully. Scientists have discovered that stress makes us eat too much?especially sugar. It’s actually another form of addiction, just like being addicted to gambling, cigarettes, drugs or alcohol.
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