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While we desperately wage war against bacteria by developing new varieties of antibiotics, there’s at least SOME good news: some types of bacteria wage a kind of "civil war" against EACH OTHER. There are predators in the bacterial world that consume other bacteria, much as predators attack prey in the animal world. Some of these predator microbes might be put to work against disease-causing bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. Biologist Daniel Kadouri says that his team focused on two bacteria that were chosen because they are true predators. He says, "They actually have to consume other bacteria in order to complete their life cycles. They have a great ability to seek out other bacteria, invade them, grow in or on them, and kill them."
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Cocaine use doesn’t just affect addicts or lead to crime–It also leads to the demise of RAINFORESTS. Scientists are reporting new evidence that cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region’s "hotspots" of plant and animal diversity. In fact, the tropical rainforests in Brazil are now on FIRE!
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And no, it’s not good news: For the first time in history, the next generation will not live longer, or even as long, as their parents (and they won’t do as well in school, either). Diseases such as Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart conditions and joint deterioration–things that were once considered ‘adult’ diseases–are regularly being diagnosed in children, due to the prevalence of obesity. And researchers suspect that a lot of the obesity in kids has to do with early traumas.
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