[In Brief] News at a glance
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:51
in Earth & Climate
In science news around the world, Italian scientists wrestle with how to communicate earthquake risk after a deadly quake last week, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board rules that graduate students at private universities are employees and can unionize, a glacier in the western Tibetan Plateau makes a rapid and mysterious collapse, California boosts its efforts to rein in climate change, the World Health Organization issues new guidelines for treating antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, and more. Also, an Iran-born physicist who was convicted of espionage in 2012 by an Iranian court has won parole. And the U.S. White House creates the largest marine protected area on the planet.
