Science Class Why Care?

More than 25 million people have died from the AIDS virus since 1981.

Odessa City Hospital in Ukraine, where a nurse brings food to an eight-year-old boy. He is HIV- positive and was left by his parents.

“The (AIDS) drugs help our patients gain weight rapidly and become …(stronger). Our patients are living proof, living examples." Janthimala Price, Midwife for Doctors without Borders

Doctors without Borders’ mission is that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people supersede respect for national borders.

Hunting, is estimated to have decreased the African elephant population from 1.3 million in 1970 to just 600,000 by 1989.

These captive chimpanzees had classic symptoms of stress, constantly pacing and circling; some had pulled out patches of their own hair.

Jane Goodall discovered that some chimpanzees make and use tools. At this time of discovery, tool-making was considered the defining difference between humans and other animals. This discovery convinced several scientists to reconsider their definition of being human.

Time is the enemy when battling an accidental oil or gas leak, especially when the leak takes place in water a half- mile deep or more.

Americans are the number one global trash offenders. Everyday, we throw away approximately 200 million tons of the stuff. Less than one-quarter of it is recycled, leaving the rest for landfills and incinerators.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Potentially can treat: Parkinson's Disease Alzheimer's Disease Spinal Cord Injury Stroke Burns Heart Disease Diabetes Osteoarthritis Rheumatoid Arthritis

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Controversy Obtaining Embryonic Stem Cells –Human life begins when sperm unites with an egg? –Human life begins when a child is born?

Loggers with illegally cut, highly quoted cedro tree (Cedrela odorata) in the lowland rainforest along the Rio Las Piedras, Peru.

As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are taken from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

On October 16, 2006, lawmakers from Washington introduced federal legislation allowing hunting California sea lions on the Columbia River.

Fossils Homologies Evidence Supporting Evolution DNA Geology Artificial Selection

Teaching Evolution is Challenged Today in the U.S. Courts Hurst v. Newman (2006) Kitzmiller v. Dover ( ) Selman v. Cobb County (2004-) Since 1968, U.S. courts have consistently held that “creationism” is a religious viewpoint and cannot be endorsed by the government.

Environmentalists hold hands and howl while protesting the cutting of old growth trees in the Eagle Creek Wilderness Area near Estacada, OR., July 23, 2000.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." — Dr. Seuss