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Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe. This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes in Japan.

Scientists from around the globe have formed the International Human Microbiome Consortium, an effort that will enable researchers to characterize the relationship of the human microbiome in the maintenance of health and in disease.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican who has challenged his party to take climate change seriously, plans to invite officials from around the globe to a summit in November.

The birds of the world are in serious trouble, and common species are now in decline all over the globe, according to a 'State of the World’s Birds' report from BirdLife International.

Like a chronic disease wasting a body, ocean "dead zones" with too little oxygen for marine life are spreading around the globe, researchers reported Thursday.