global challenges

(American Chemical Society) With millions of Americans planning to gather around dinner tables for the annual Thanksgiving feast, researchers are reporting key research advances in providing safer and more nutritious food in the 10th and 11th episodes of the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series.

Those advances include putting that Thanksgiving turkey on a special diet -- animal feed with a natural substance that reduces levels of food-poisoning bacteria inside gobblers and other poultry.

(American Chemical Society) Fuels of the future may come from "the ice that burns," ordinary water, "designer hydrocarbons," and other new sources, according to two special podcasts on "New Fuels" from the American Chemical Society's acclaimed podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions."

(American Chemical Society) As the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, the American Chemical Society has issued a new podcast describing an array of technologies to help assure personal safety and national security.

It is the sixth episode in ACS's acclaimed Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions series. Entitled Promoting Personal Safety & National Security, the podcast describes a "chemical radar" and other scientific advances.

(American Chemical Society) Meeting the world's growing energy demands while minimizing global warming will be one on the biggest challenges humanity has every faced, said Dr.

Raymond Orbach, the US Department of Energy's Under Secretary for Science, in the first of two special podcasts on "Confronting Climate Change" from the American Chemical Society's podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions."

(Geological Society of America) More than 10,000 international scientists, professionals, educators and students will gather at the George R.

Brown Convention Center in Houston Oct. 5-9, 2008, to discuss the latest research and trends in energy, water resources, climate change, agriculture, science education, earth sciences and related disciplines.

This first-ever joint annual meeting is a collaboration that showcases the sciences of the sponsoring organizations.

(American Chemical Society) The American Chemical Society has launched a major series of podcasts, Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions, www.acs.org/globalchallenges focusing on some of the 21st Century most serious world-wide problems and how new discoveries from the labs of chemists and other scientists offer solutions.

Selected papers and symposia at the ACSÆ 236th National Meeting involve a wide range of Global Challenges topics, including providing safe water, coping with climate change, combating disease, developing new fuels and more.

(American Chemical Society) An authority on the quality of drinking water today describes new challenges for consumers and municipal water supply systems, including unexpected consequences of efforts to conserve water in the first of a special series of podcasts from the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.