Declaration for an increased public awareness of climate change 3 Climate change could swamp Venice's flood defence 5 Faux Better or Worse 6 Aggression Not As Attractive As Men Believe 8 From Sewage to Artichokes 10 The Ancestor Hunter 13 Drought, Not 'Old Chaparral,' Aiding Wildfires 20 How Could They Have Stayed Behind? 23 'Bubble' children treatment hope 26 Boy conceived using new test born 28 Gel hope for brain injury repair 30 Climate targets 'will kill coral' 32 Galaxy's 'cannibalism' revealed 35 First Genetic Link Between Reptile And Human Heart Evolution Found 37 Moths Cloaked In Color: Reexamining Parallel Evolution In Diurnal Neotropical Moths 39 Nano Data Storage: Researchers Study Ordering Mechanism In Metallofullerenes 41 Rise In Weight-loss Drugs Prescribed To Combat Childhood Obesity 43 Implications From Everyday Misunderstandings To Eyewitness Memory 44 Anticoagulant Plays Unexpected Role In Maintaining Circulatory Integrity 46 Computational Process Zeroes In On Top Genetic Cancer Suspects 48 Map Characterizes Active Lakes Below Antarctic Ice 50 Bio-enabled, Surface-mediated Approach Produces Nanoparticle Composites 52 Diesel Exhaust Is Linked To Cancer Development Via New Blood Vessel Growth 54 Waist-hip Ratio Better Than BMI For Gauging Obesity In Elderly, Study Finds 57 High School Put-downs Make It Hard For Students To Learn, Study Says 59 Discovery Of Novel Genes Could Unlock Mystery Of What Makes Us Uniquely Human 60 Old Moon Discovery Helps Unlock Earth Ocean Secrets 62 Why AI is a dangerous dream 64 Sleep May Be Nature’s Time Management Tool 67 My Brain on Chemo: Alive and Alert 69 When Patient Handoffs Go Terribly Wrong 72 For the Overweight, Bad Advice by the Spoonful 74 Strange jellies of the icy depths 77 Engineering Earth 'is feasible' 80 Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age 83 Earlier Date for First Refined Stone Tools in Europe 85 After the Transistor, a Leap Into the Microcosm 86 The Geologist’s Tale: A Storm, a Survivor and a Vanishing Island 89 Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike 92 British plan to tackle asteroids 95 Depressed teens 'face adult risk' 97 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Critical Care 99 Another One for the Gipper 102 Two of a Kind 105 Kennedy’s Rough Waters and Still Harbors 107 A Tribute to the Man, Beyond Just the Mouse 110 With Sharp Satire, Enfant Terrible Challenges Czech Identity 111 Hybrid Art, a Mash-Up of Reality and Fantasy 113 Tight Quarters (Only 500 Square Feet), but Oh, the Views 115 Contradiction Remains Vital to Pakistan and Its Art 117 A Modern Artist Who Wielded Both Pen and Brush 119 Safety call over stem cell trips 121 Antibodies 'may aid HIV jab hunt' 123 Large thighs 'may protect heart' 125 Reboot for UK's 'oldest' computer 127 Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years' 129 Babies And Dogs Make The Same Classic Mistake 131 Maths 'no better than in 1970s' 133 Mass brain training study begins 135 Cigarette branding 'misleading' 137 Call to use more government data 139 Seas 'threaten 20m in Bangladesh' 142 Giant rat found in 'lost volcano' 144 That Late-night Snack: Worse Than You Think 146 Satellites And Submarines Give The Skinny On Sea Ice Thickness 148 US Energy Use Drops In 2008 151 'Achilles' Heel' In Y Chromosome Linked To Sex Disorders 153 Chemotherapy Resistance: Checkpoint Protein Provides Armor Against Cancer Drugs 155 Made-to-measure Solutions For Enhancing Prostheses Of Amputated Legs 157 Milky Way's Not-so-distant Cousin Likely Harbors Supermassive Black Hole 159 Insomnia Is Bad For The Heart; Increases Blood Pressure 161 Design Research Points The Way So You Won't Get Lost At The Hospital 162 Monkey Brains Signal The Desire To Explore 165 Indoor Plants Found To Release Volatile Organic Compounds 167 Mitotic Release Of Chromatin-binding RNA Gives Insight Into X Chromosome Silencing 169 Economists Measure GDP Growth From Outer Space 171 Large-scale Study Probes How Cells Fight Pathogens 173 Parkinson’s Disease: Iron Accumulation To The Point Of Demise 176 Do High-fat Diets Make Us Stupid And Lazy? 178 Designing Cars For Expectant Mothers 180 Next-door Cosmic Encounter: Neighboring Galaxies Collided 2-3 Billion Years Ago 181 New Graphene-based, Nano-material Has Magnetic Properties 183 'Tipping Points' Identified Where Sudden Shifts To New Conditions Occur 185 New Treatment In Sight For Ovarian Cancer 188 Researcher Uses 100,000 Degree Heat To Study Plasma, What Happens To Matter 189 People With Type 2 Diabetes Not Meeting Important Nutritional Recommendations 191 How Can Clinicians Help Patients Make Decisions Consistent With Their Values? 193 Preparing for a Stressful Flu Season 195 First Stem Cell Drug Fails 2 Late-Stage Clinical Trials 198 Children: Seeing a Family Benefit in Obesity Surgery 199 Splits Form Over How to Address Bone Loss 200 2 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.82 September 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Declaration for an increased public awareness of climate change 09-09-2009 (Paris) Regional broadcasting unions, international broadcasting associations and other stakeholders decided to increase regional and international cooperation, with the support of UN, and step up their efforts to give media exposure to climate change so as to help mitigate its impact and avert potential human suffering. This decision is part of a declaration adopted at the end of a two-day conference at UNESCO Headquarters on 4 and 5 September. The International Conference on Broadcast Media and Climate Change, organized by UNESCO in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), brought together some 250 representatives of national broadcasters from both developing and developed countries, regional broadcasting unions, key international broadcasting associations, scientific organizations and climate- related agencies, who examined major perspectives on reporting on climate change today. In their declaration, the participants stressed that “access to relevant information on climate change is vital to sustain a living planet and for the survival of human beings.” Regional broadcasting unions and associations committed to partner with international development agencies to improve the quality and quantity of content relating to climate change through capacity-building, networking and programme exchange. Equally pressing was the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who sent a message to the participants highlighting the importance of public awareness of the issue. “Climate change, he said, is one of the most fundamental threats ever to confront humankind. It exacerbates all of the problems we face: poverty, disease, hunger and insecurity. It impedes progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. It deepens the food and energy crises.” 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.82 September 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila “That is the harsh reality,” the Secretary-General said. “But there is an upside: if we combat climate change with a sustainable, low-emissions approach, we can change the way countries develop. We can foster green growth. We can fight hunger and poverty while protecting the environment.” The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, echoed the Secretary-General’s pressing exhortations to address the issue of climate change ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-18 December 2009). He stressed UNESCO’s longstanding involvement with the issue, notably through its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), which conducts scientific research and assessments of the climate system. The Director-General also stressed the importance of capacity building through education in tackling the issue. “Climate change will affect not only us, said Mr Matsuura, but future generations to come. It is therefore essential that we lay the groundwork for future generations to understand and effectively confront this challenge.” http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php- URL_ID=29099&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 4 Infoteca’s E-Journal No.82 September 2009 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Climate change could swamp Venice's flood defence 12:42 24 August 2009 by Shanta Barley Italy's City of Water could be flooded more often (Image: Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty) Rarely was a city so aptly named. By the end of the century, Venice – Italy's City of Water – could face daily floods, and according to a new study, the costly and controversial flood barriers now being built might not be able to protect it. Laura Carbognin at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice and colleagues combined data on land subsidence in the city with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's forecasts of global sea level rise. They then calculated how this "personalised" sea-level forecast would change the city's daily tides. When the tide rises above 110 centimetres, Venetians call it acqua alta ("high water"). This currently happens about four times a year, but Carbognin's team found that by the end of the century high water could swamp the city between 30 and 250 times a year. The impact on the local environment would be considerable – Carbognin calls it an "unsustainable aggression". Waterworld High water events will require MOSE, the city's system of flood barriers due for completion in 2014, to be raised, with pollution and untreated sewage trapped within the confines of the city's lagoon. Carbognin's estimates of high water events are conservative scenarios and the reality could be much worse, says NASA climatologist Vivien Gornitz, a contributor to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. Sea levels are already rising faster than forecast in the IPCC's estimates, Gornitz says, and if sea levels rise more than 26-53 cm by 2100, as Carbognin conservatively estimates, MOSE, which can only cope with 60 cm of sea level rise, may be insufficient to save the city.