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• Fat City: Are lipids ‘liquid gold’?
Work on reengineering fat cells has picked up speed since Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University — now a part-time scientist at the J. David Gladstone Institutes and professor at the University of California, San Francisco — and the University of ...
• Surprise rise in CO2 gases worries experts
Developing countries not asked to reduce greenhouse gases by the 1997 Kyoto treaty — and China and India are among them — now account for 53 percent of carbon dioxide pollution. Developing countries surpassed industrialized ones in carbon dioxide ...
• First U.S. carbon auction is coming up
The bipartisan action followed President Bush's rejection of greenhouse gas reduction goals set under a 1997 United Nations protocol reached in Kyoto, Japan. Governors in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire ...
• Chicago to slash greenhouse gases
It's the first step toward cutting emissions to one-fifth of 1990 levels by 2050, as called for in the 1997 Kyoto global warming protocols, officials said. Daley is one of about 800 mayors who have agreed to adopt that goal, and Chicago is the first ...
• Best places to travel to for fall value
A vast, modern city, Osaka is the gateway to many of Japan’s most important tourist sites, including Kyoto, Nara, and Mount Koya. The city reflects its people: outgoing, food-loving, shopping enthusiasts, and business-oriented. Why go in fall: ...