Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet.

CNN: Hot Air In Kyoto

The secrecy was serious: when he spoke of spirits, his smiling face became deadly sober and even scared.

ECONOMIST: Mau Piailug

But without this elephant's input of new money and ideas, the battle-front against malaria and other deadly diseases might present an even worse picture, especially if the field were left to governments and inter-governmental bodies.

ECONOMIST: Global health

Incredibly, the EPA regulates such plants as pesticides and subjects them to even more stringent regulation than the deadly chemical poisons used to kill vermin, viruses or bacteria.

FORBES: 'Let's Move' Toward A More Effective Approach To Obesity

The FBI had hoped to use science to trace the source of the anthrax, a biological spore that even in small amounts can prove deadly and can be easily transmitted through the air.

CNN: Scientist's anthrax lawsuit settled for $2.8 million

Two deadly collapses in 2008 spurred reforms and even criminal charges, but another crane fell and killed a worker in the city just this past April, at a subway construction site largely exempt from city safety rules.

WSJ: APNewsBreak: Operator cited in NYC crane collapse

Ballard evoked the deadly allure of automobiles in his novels, and even exhibited crashed cars.

WSJ: Ghosts in the Machine | New Museum | Beyond Human | By Kristin M. Jones

The building had tested negative three times previously for anthrax, but workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used a special vacuum with a filter developed to detect even the most minute amounts of the deadly bacteria.

BBC: Anthrax found in Connecticut mail facility

America's Research Group, which interviews 10, 000 to 15, 000 consumers a week mostly on behalf of retailers, says that even in the aftermath of two deadly tragedies in Bangladesh, shoppers seem more concerned with fit and price than whether their clothes were made in factories where workers are safe and make reasonable wages.

NPR: Shoppers Face Hurdles In Finding Ethical Clothing