An Overdue Step in the Fight Against Climate Change

A short review on Geo-engineering proposals to fight against climate change

Since the beginning of the industrial era, the atmosphere content in greenhouse gases has rapidly increased. In its 4th assessment report (AR4), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) points out the impact of human’s activities and its responsibility for a large part of the changes recently observed in the Earth's climate: increase in global temperature, sea level rise, melt...

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

The fight against digital piracy: An experiment

With the increased reliance on the Internet, digital piracy is a hot topic that is receiving substantial interest. And while most studies concentrate on understanding piracy in developed countries, few studies have been done in developing countries. In order to fill in this gap, this study reports on an experiment to deter/prevent digital piracy behavior in an Arab and a Middle Eastern country....

The Fight Against Tuberculosis: An Autobiography

549 accuracy of statement is also commendable for so concentrated a treatment. The book is about 30 pages longer than the first edition. Two significant new sections have been added: General Principles of Chemical Carcino-genesis and Some Objections to the Virus Theory. The major additional pages treat new studies on the causes of cancer. Those who are primarily concerned with the metabolism an...

Forced adaptation: plant proteins to fight climate change

Increasing distress about climate change consequences is noticeable in daily press releases and science news articles. In the last 5 years more than 3 hundred thousand scientific articles included the terms “climate change,” “drought stress” and/or “climate adaptation” as a main topic. This build-up of energy devoted to understand climate change significance parallels the fact that any living o...