Genetic mutations linked to the practice of burning coal in homes in China
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30 According to a study directed by a University of Pittsburgh researcher, individuals in Xuan Wei County, China who are exposed to smoky coal emissions from cooking and heating their homes may carry genetic mutations that greatly increase their risk of developing lung cancer. The study is being presented Sunday, Oct. 3, at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen S...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
... ......Scientists have discovered a long-necked sea reptile with fangs that probably preyed on fish and squid in a shallow sea in present-day southeast China more than 230 million years ago. The creature's relatively stiff, 1.7-meter-long neck (approximately five and a half feet) was almost twice as long as its trunk which measured less than one meter in length....Veterinarians, wildlife experts applaud China's ban of wild bird trade
NEW YORK - (FEB. 19, 2004) -- A group of scientists and veterinarians from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today applauded China's decision to ban trade in wild birds to help prevent the spread of Avian Flu. But the group cautioned that to safeguard both people and wildlife fully, the measure should be made permanent.... ...Last week WCS issued a statement calling for the...Worlds most endangered alligator released in China
(JUNE 5, 2003) NEW YORK -- Three adult Chinese alligators the world's most endangered crocodilian species were successfully released in China recently by a team of biologists in an effort to help restore the species to the Yangtze River valley, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today. ...Currently numbering less than 130 individuals, wild populations of Chinese al...New species of earliest-known salamanders found in China
A 161 million-year-old Mongolian fossil not only reveals a new species of salamanders, but also provides proof that much of the evolution of salamanders occurred in Asia. ......For more than three years, scientists from the University of Chicago and Peking University in Beijing have been collecting thousands of salamander fossils, many of which preserve the entire skeleton and impressions of soft...First-ever photo of wild Siberian tiger taken in China
... ... ......NEW YORK (Feb. 6) -- A remote camera clicked the first known photograph of a wild Siberian or Amur tiger in northern China last week, providing strong evidence that tigers are crossing from the Russian Far East to repopulate previous tiger strongholds, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today. ...The tiger was photographed in Jilin Province's Hunchun...Blood banking systems improving in China, more progress needed
After years spent analyzing blood banking and transfusion practices in China, a Johns Hopkins-led research team says that major improvements are needed to ensure the safety and reliability of the blood supply that serves 20 percent of the world's population....... "There have been advances over the last few years, but with one of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection, the shortcomings of the...Shifts in rice farming practices in China reduce greenhouse gas methane
Changes to farming practices in rice paddies in China may have led to a decrease in methane emissions, and an observed decline in the rate that methane has entered the Earth's atmosphere over the last 20 years, a NASA-funded study finds. ......Changsheng Li, a professor of natural resources in the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, and lead author...NIH funds botanical center in Iowa to study health effects of Echinacea and St. John's wort
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced a 5-year, $6 million grant for the establishment of a research center based in Ames, Iowa to study two botanical dietary supplement ingredients, Echinacea and Hypericum (St. John's wort). Echinacea is reputed to ward of...Research shows older children, adolescents grew heavier in Brazil, China, U.S. over past 30 years
CHAPEL HILL -- Over the past three decades, the percentage of older children and adolescents who were overweight tripled in Brazil and almost doubled in the United States, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study....... Between 1991 and 1997, the percentage of overweight children climbed 20 percent in China but dropped by almost half in Russia, which fell on economic h...Researchers at the University of Washington and in China release genome sequence of rice
Two University of Washington researchers - Dr. Jun Yu, an American, and Dr. Gane Ka-Shu Wong, a Canadian - and a major new genome sequencing center in China have sequenced the genetic code for rice, one of the most important food staples in the world.... The Chinese center is making the complete genome sequence of rice available to the public. An analysis of the sequence will appear in the Apri...China to declare new reserve for Siberian tigers
......NEW YORK With assistance from the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Chinese government will create a new protected area along its border with Russia in order to safeguard the nations remaining population of endangered Siberian (Amur) tigers and Far Eastern leopards. ... The agreement by Chinas Jilin Forestry Department to establish the Jilin Hunchun nature reserve i...Anthropologists find evidence of early humans in southern China cave
.A team of researchers, including Lynne Schepartz, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, has discovered an unusual collection of animal and human teeth dating back over 200,000 years deep inside a southern China cave. .The evidence for human occupation of the cave is clear. There are stone tool cut marks on the animal bones, repeated findings of burnt bone, and.unu...Soybean pest native to China detected in U.S. for first time
.A new soybean pest has appeared in fields scattered across Wisconsin during the past month, according to University of Wiscosnin-Madison scientists. The soybean aphid also has turned up in northern Illinois and may soon be reported from Michigan.. ."This is an unprecedented situation," says David Hogg, who chairs the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. "Th...US seed industry to benefit from free trade with China
.Permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China will benefit the U.S. seed industry along with other agricultural sectors, says the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), joining several U.S. farm groups in support of PNTR legislation. . ."By enhancing the trade position of U.S. agriculture with China, this legislation will benefit the seed industry," says ASTA Executive Vice President Dean.... . Feeding the World by Cleaning the Air . . . . . Proceedings of the National Academy . of Sciences , the study found that heavy regional haze in China's most . important agricultural areas may be cutting food production there by as much . as one-third. Covering a million square kilometers or more, the haze scatters . and absorbs solar radiation, reducing the amo...China now leads world in sulfur emissions, study shows
. As the century draws to its close, the dark reaches of the world have shifted from the West to the East. .An ambitious analysis of global sulfur emissions estimates spanning two centuries shows that the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union have stabilized their emissions over the past 20 years, while mainland China's sulfur emissions have soared. China now leads the world in the...Discovery of new bird species in China, oldest beak shows evolution complexity
. (Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL - Working together on fossilized remains,.Chinese and U.S. researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of.primitive bird, a finding that offers new evidence that early bird evolution was.considerably more complex than previously believed.. . In the process, the scientists have identified on its nearly complete.skeleton, the world's oldest surv.... .KANSAS CITY, May 24, 1999-Leading echinacea researchers and scientists from.around the globe will take an in-depth look at the latest scientific, medical.and conservation information about one of the world's most popular herbal.remedies at the 1999 International Echinacea Symposium, June 3-5 in Kansas City,.MO. . .The two-and-a-half day symposium is the first of its kind to be held in the.Uni...Echinacea Symposium Presents New Research On Chernobyl Victims
. The results from a long-term clinical study in the Ukraine on the use of.Echinacea to treat victims of the Chernobyl disaster is among the new studies to.be presented at the 1999 International Echinacea Symposium June 3-5 in Kansas.City, MO. . . Dr. Victoriya F. Pochernyayeva, a leading researcher from Ukraine and the .former Soviet Union, will review the results of her long-term studies inclu...Professor Will Connect With Students Live From China Dinosaur Site
. On Thursday, Jan. 21, science students at LaPorte High School and Kesling Middle School (LaPorte) will communicate live. via internet with Purdue University North Central biology professor Richard Hengst, who is on a scientific expedition to a. dinosaur site in southwest China. The students will have an opportunity to ask questions as well as learn about new. discov....Children with deformed limbs, hands and feet covered with scaly lesions,.cancerous growths--these distressing sights are all too common in Guizhou.Province in southwest China. Although these health problems have been.attributed to the burning of impure coal, they are in reality the consequence of.the complex interactions of geology, climate, energy needs, food preferences,.and cultural practic...