Colorado River Conference Aug. 26
...es are the primary source of water for much of the southwestern United States, and it affects water management and...entral Utah Water Conservancy District and several southwestern universities. The sponsoring organization, SCERP, was created in 1989 to analyze possible solutio...Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes
...study while working in the highlands region of the southwestern Mexican state of Chiapas. He found the area's Mayan residents use weeds for all sorts of day-to-day illnesses, such as common colds, upset stomachs, skin rashes, and aches and sprains. For the vast majority of the 800,000 Mayans living in this area ...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...toration of mined lands and benefit communities in southwestern Virginia's coalfield region. Wynne is director of the Center for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing ( http://cears.fw.vt.edu/ ). Marshall Miller and Associates, a major geological/mining/environmental consulting company, headquartered in Bl...Yellowstone's long-distance travelers in trouble, study says
...0 energy-extraction sites exist on public lands in southwestern Wyoming, just below the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the 40,000 square-mile region surrounding Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. An additional 15,000 more are planned for the next decade, according to Berger. The effects of this spate o...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...ation is densest in southern Indiana, Kentucky and southwestern Ohio, but it has pockets in Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, New Jersey, Missouri, northern Georgia, New York (Long Island), eastern Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia) and the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Scientists expect Brood X...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...w, the flooded depths of an abandoned iron mine in southwestern Wisconsin have yielded yet another novelty: microbes that produce nanometer-scale crystals of extraordinary length. The discovery of the willowy microscopic crystals may open a broad new window to human understanding of biomineralization, the same pr...Seeing the forest for the trees: The future of environmental policy lies in interaction
...e Wolong Nature Reserve in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China, which is one of the largest homes to the endangered giant panda. In Wolong, the Chinese government has instituted three policies to preserve panda habitat: an eco-hydropower plant program to eliminate fuel wood consumption, a natural forest co...Bighorn sheep threatened by climate change
... the mean annual temperature in the deserts of the southwestern United States increased by about 1.8 degrees Fahre...the Sonoran, Mojave and Great Basin deserts of the southwestern United States. In southwestern California, they are also found in the Transverse and Peninsular moun...New evidence suggests that monkey thought extinct still exists
... black-tailed monkey species inhabit the country's southwestern forests. Subsequent DNA testing proved that the tail did indeed come from a red colobus monkey. Ironically, the hunter said he had shot the animal only a week after McGraw had left the country in 2000. McGraw has not been to Ivory Coast since the win...Fish, FRAMES and sticky chemicals net technology award for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...ate a full-scale culvert test bed at a hatchery in southwestern Washington. The one-of-a-kind facility is providing scientifically sound information for use in improving designs for new and retrofitted culverts in the Northwest and elsewhere. Test bed experiments measure water conditions under hundreds of slope a...Huge iceberg wreaks havoc on Antarctic marine ecosystem, study finds
...rier that prevented sea ice from moving out of the southwestern Ross Sea for the next three months -- a crucial ti...nsequence of large icebergs that drift through the southwestern Ross Sea during spring and summer," Arrigo added, noting that, by July 2003, C-19 had finally drifte...Huge Antarctic iceberg makes a big splash on sea life
...large, C-19 blocked sea ice from moving out of the southwestern Ross Sea region. The blockage resulted in unusuall...nsequence of large icebergs that drift through the southwestern Ross Sea during spring and summer," Arrigo said. Arrigo and van Dijken also used imagery from the De...Northern climate, ecosystems driven by cycles of changing sunlight
...tundra region near the Ahklun Mountains, along the southwestern coast of Alaska. Hu and co-author Darrell Kaufman of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff have conducted climate-change research in that region for more than a decade. "To our knowledge, this is the first data set from the North Pacific high lati...Earliest European modern humans found
...era cu Oase, the "Cave with Bones," located in the southwestern Carpathian Mountains. The other bones were found in June 2003. The results on the jawbone will be published the week of Sept. 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS; www.pnas.org ) Online Early Edition. A report on the other...Bones from French cave show Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon hunted same prey
...year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in ...ed into the region. Neanderthals disappeared from southwestern France around 35,000 years ago, although they survived longer in southern Spain and central Europe. ...Global analysis finds a large portion of the earth is still wilderness
...ica, and the North American Deserts complex of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Between them, these five wilderness areas contain more than 17 percent of all plants and 8 percent of vertebrates in just over 6 percent of Earth's land surface. "As striking as these wilderness numbers are, they un...Threatened juvenile salmon get scientific assistance
...PNNL), to design and install a culvert test bed in southwestern Washington. PNNL, located in Richland, Wash., is operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy. "We're blending the expertise of hydraulics engineers, mechanical engineers, statisticians, fish biologists and fish behavior specialists to fin...NIH awards $1 million to Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to study biochemical network modeling
...ndergraduates from economically-depressed areas in southwestern Virginia to receive training and preparation for bioinformatics studies. Out-of-town students will receive room and board at Virginia Tech, as well as a stipend for their participation....Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (May 2003)
...ers have found that sediments beneath the Nation's southwestern deserts have been drying out for 16,000 years, since the cold and wet conditions of the ice age began to change to the hot and dry conditions of today. What does this drying out mean for hazardous waste disposal? Check out http://toxics.usgs.gov/hi......mals in northeastern Madagascar and throughout the southwestern Indian and South Atlantic Oceans, will be featured in the American Museum of Natural History's newly renovated Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, which reopens to the public on May 17, 2003....