By Chad Bouchard Bali 06 December 2007 More than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists signed a petition calling for negotiators in Bali's United Nations Climate Change Conference to set aggressive targets for reducing greenhouse gas emission...
By Jessica Berman Washington 06 December 2007 Children who are overweight are at significant risk of developing heart disease as adults. That's the conclusion of two studies published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine , which predicts wh...
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 29 November 2007 A team of U.S. and British researchers have unveiled a new map of Antarctica that they say will revolutionize research on the frozen continent and contribute to a deeper understanding of climate change...
By Mandy Clark London 27 November 2007 A gathering of scientists, artists and engineers met recently in London to discuss ways of helping Africa deal with the effects of global warming. VOA's Mandy Clark reports from London. The message of climate ch...
By VOA News 20 November 2007 Two separate teams of scientists say they have transformed ordinary human skin cells into ones that look and act like embryonic stem cells. Laboratory teams at universities in the United States and Japan Tuesday announced...
By Paul Sisco Washington 14 November 2007 At the McDonald Observatory in western Texas, a unique space program has been quietly underway for more than 30 years. It is called the Lunar Laser Ranging Program. VOA's Paul Sisco has more. Research scienti...
By Phil Mercer 07 November 2007 Researchers have uncovered a language used by migrating whales off the Australian coast. Thousands of hours of humpback whale sounds recorded off Queensland have revealed a vast repertoire of social sounds. From Sydney...
By Paul Sisco Washington 18 October 2007 In today's Searching for Solutions report, Paul Sisco reports on what some scientists say can be done to reduce carbon emissions and cool off global warming. Many scientists believe that the problem of climate...
Maryland, south of Washington, DC 15 October 2007 Scientists are predicting there could be a global food crisis in this century if climate change continues unabated. VOA's Jeff Swicord reports. Buddy Hanse has been farming on land south of Washington...
By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 10 October 2007 The 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Kevin Billinghurst has the story from Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Pr...