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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Warmer temperatures and longer dry spells have killed thousands of trees and shrubs in a Southern California mountain range, pushing the plants' habitat an average of 213 feet up the mountain over the past 30 years, a UC Irvine study has determined.White fir and Jeffrey pine trees died at the ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Even if you don't like the outdoors, you're probably pretty fond of air, clean water and food.That makes you a fan of biodiversity, because those essentials for life-human and otherwise-are maintained as a direct result of the Earth's biodiversity, the abundance and variety of species and populations on the planet. ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Amphibians, reigning survivors of past mass extinctions, are sending a clear, unequivocal signal that something is wrong, as their extinction rates rise to unprecedented levels, according to a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Humans are exacerbating two key natural threats - climate change ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Over the last five years farm vehicles and machinery have been the cause of 22 major injuries and four deaths in the county. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging farmers in Kent to make sure they are properly maintaining tractors, trailers and other mobile equipment, which is being ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. The infested trees are located in the St. Laurent Boulevard and Highway 417 area. This invasive beetle does not spread quickly on its own. In fact, it ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), according to US research published in the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters.The ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.Combining ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Montana State University microbiologist Matthew Fields spends his days studying a microscopic world that most people take for granted.Fields studies the physiology and behavior of microbes - the tiny organisms that have inhabited virtually every square inch of the earth's surface for the past four billion years."Microbes have global impact," ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE reportsan alarming spread of disease from commercial bees to wild pollinatorsthat may explain a decline in the wild bee population. Almost 33% of the human diet is derived from plants pollinated byinsects, and bees are an important link in the pollination ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
The University of Iowa and Iowa State University are pooling their resources to significantly enhance both institutions' genetic research capabilities.The two institutions have each purchased a massively parallel DNA sequencer - an instrument capable of deciphering DNA sequences at the rate of millions to billions of bases in a single ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society said: "TV companies occasionally commission programmes just to court controversy, but to misrepresent the evidence on an issue as important as global warming was surely irresponsible. 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' was itself a swindle. The programme makers misrepresented the science, ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Eileen T. Kennedy DSc, Dean of Tufts University's Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy announced the 3rd Annual Friedman School Symposium, a conference for nutrition professionals that will examine critical issues facing industry, policy-makers, academics and thought leaders in the coming year.The conference will ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
"A failure to make the right decisions on energy policy now could have dramatic economic, social and environmental impacts in the future. Coal looks likely to play a part in meeting the UK's growing energy needs and will definitely play a big part globally, yet the government appears paralysed ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
In-depth studies of how human land use is having an ever greater impact on ecosystems over a period of three centuries are being carried out for the first time. This project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, investigates on a global level how the transition from an agrarian to ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation [1]and nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued today by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Drinking-water Supply and Sanitation (JMP). The JMP report, titled ...
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