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Scientists and researchers believe that when the next Ice Age occurs, sadly due to global warming currently plaguing our Earth, ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life.

This belief was strengthen further when an eight-million-year-old bacterium, extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth, started growing in a laboratory. The said bacterium was dug by a team of researchers from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

It came from the ice found between three and five metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica. Aside from the eight-billion-year-old sample, four more samples were taken ranging between 100,000 and eight million years old.

"We tried to grow them in media, and the young stuff grew really fast. We could plate them and isolate colonies", commented team member Kate Bidle. Quite intriguingly, the oldest sample only contains one type of bacterium compared to the younger ones which are home to various micro-organisms. The oldest sample, furthermore, grows much slowly - only doubling in size every 70 days.

Scientist Russell Vreeland of the Ancient Biomaterials Institute at West Chester University in Pennsylvania gave this interesting comment, "This has been happening probably for a long, long time. Ice freezes and melts, rocks sink and are eroded. Microbes have been involved with this process for almost four billion years".

New Jersey legislators have passed and approved the Global Warming Response Act, which seeks to lower greenhouse gas emissions to non-critical levels to contribute in the world's bid to stop climate change.

Former Vice President and global warming activist Al Gore was present to witness the enactment of the milestone legislation, along with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

The law requires the state to cut down on the release of greenhouse gases to restore the status of the air to 1990 levels by the year 2020. More ambitiously, the Global Warming Response Act seeks to have total emissions lowered by 80 percent of present levels by 2050.

"We are making a long-lived commitment today that will impact not just our generation but future generations," says Corzine as he described the day of enactment as a very important one for the Garden State.

Gore, on the other hand, says that New Jersey's initiative is very important and should serve as a model for other states and the federal government. "The states are making a difference; New Jersey is making a difference," he says.

Not everyone is pleased with the development, though. Several figures from the state's power industry have criticized the bill, saying that the lone efforts of New Jersey will not change a thing on a global scale and could dampen the economy. Still, support by the citizenry and lawmakers has proven that the populace is in favor of the act.

It's been said that too much of anything is a bad thing. Apparently, this holds true with green tea as well. While it's been said that the polyphenols found in the drink can prevent heart diseases and cancer, large quantities of same substance can also cause kidney and liver damage.

Chung Yang of Rutgers from the State University of New Jersey has said that "people shouldn't be too alarmed by this, but those taking supplements may experience problems." He gave a ballpark figure of about 10 small cups of green tea as a good amount for individuals to consume. However, for those who are taking supplements, he warns that they may contain up to 50 times the polyphenol as one cup of green tea.

The credibility of this study is strengthened further by Yang's citations of experiments conducted on rodents and dogs which were given large quantities of polyphenols and died from liver poisoning. It has also been documented that some people who were overdosing on green-tea-supplements were diagnosed with liver toxicity. This was promptly cured by stopping the intake of the supplements, but is said to have resurfaced after regular consumption of the pills.