On the Record

“You're a big daft cock.”

The entire response of Martin Durkin, director of a recent British television documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, to a reasoned e-mail from Imperial College scientist Armand Leroi questioning the programme's accuracy.

Credit: FOTOLINCSV/ALAMY

Scorecard

Being fat

Obese men are less prone to suicide, according to a 20-year survey, although the study's authors do not recommend overeating as a healthy route to happiness.

Living on the Moon

NASA has set up a working group to investigate whether toxic dust could make ‘lunar hay fever' an occupational hazard of living on a Moon base.

Zoo news

Credit: A. & S. TOON/NHPA

Pigeon-fanciers in Western Europe are looking forward to 1 April, when a ban imposed to reduce the risk of bird flu is set to be lifted.

Wildlife managers in Western Australia are drawing up plans to control feral camels driven “mad with thirst” by the recent drought, causing them to rampage through towns and farms in search of water.

Sources: ocean.mit.edu, Arch. Int. Med., BBC, Environment News Service, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre