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Good news, bad news from American Scientist
Monday, April 3, 2006
Good news:
Propensity for Deep-Seated Receptors Make Bird Flu Tough to Transmit
Two new studies may knock back the notion that avian flu will emerge as the world's next great flu pandemic. That's because the same characteristic that makes the flu so deadly also makes it very difficult to transmit from person to person, according to studies appearing in the journals Nature and Science.
Bad news:
Studies: Sea Levels May Rise More, and More Rapidly, Than Previously Believed
Sea levels may rise higher and faster than previously believed, according to new studies that synthesize the latest research into melting glaciers and ice sheets with fossil review of impacts from long-ago periods of climate change. The research, published in the journal Science, comes in with a new upper limit for sea level rise: It's possible that seas could climb as high as 20 feet by the end of the century. Such a dramatic jump would swallow low-lying islands and atolls and would advance on heavily populated coastal areas on every continent.
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