Cadmium toxicity threatening wildlife in Rocky Mountains
...em of thin-eggshells in the peregrine falcon three decades ago. The implications of the toxicity go beyond a single species. "What we found in our study was that a particular genus of plants -- willows -- were 'biomagnifying' or concentrating cadmium," Larison said. "They act as biological pumps, increasing...Putting a price tag on paradise
...on the basis of charity alone," she adds. "We have decades of experience showing this. We need to create ways of rewarding people financially for protecting environmental assets." Daily is director of the Tropical Research Program at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. Her Science co-authors from St...Study: too much sugar, not enough milk may damage U.S. teens' health
...ose to 50 percent among adolescents over the three decades studied, they found. That decrease was accompanied by a heavy increase in consumption of sugar-laden soft drinks and fruit-flavored beverages. Teens also began eating more of their vegetables in the form of fatty fried potatoes than their parents did...Research changes surface mine reclamation practices, policy
Two decades of research by a Virginia Tech forestry and soil scientist and a graduate student's research over a seven-state region have influenced current reclamation policy, guidelines, and regulations throughout the eastern and mid-western coal fields -- a for...ASPP publishes major plant biology textbook
...nd growth of plant scientists in general. Over the decades the Society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology, as well as to serve the basic interests of plant science. It publishes the highly cited and respected journals Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell. Membership...Grasslands, deserts, mountains and fire
... indicate that dust sources may change through the decades and that human impacts may be responsible for those changes. People or lightning? Fire in southwestern US, pre-1900 The view that most fires in the southwestern U.S. (chiefly Arizona and New Mexico) before 1900 were set by native peoples rather t...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...ting a variety of components of Arctic change over decades and centuries. "We had the pieces of the puzzle gathered, and we synthesized them to give us the best picture of what is going on right now in the Arctic," said Serreze, a researcher at the CU-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, or NSIDC. Fu...Bullfrogs invading Canada's west coast
...B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island several decades ago. The frogs have been spreading in leaps and bounds ever since. "Their range on the Island is expanding by about five kilometres a year, mainly near urban areas," says Govindarajulu. So far, she's found them in several dozen local lakes and pond...Farmers and GM crops should both impact farmland birds, Science study predicts
...ts of a three year trial," Watkinson said. Several decades of intensified agriculture in Europe have had a particularly serious effect on birds, whose populations in the United Kingdom have declined by up to 90 percent in the last 25 years, according to Watkinson. "It seems likely that the widespread introdu...150-year global ice record reveals major warming trend
... and scary to people is that these rates in recent decades are so much faster." Climate models have predicted a doubling of total greenhouse gases in the next 30 years or so, a change that could potentially move the climate boundaries for fish and other organisms northward by about 300 miles, approximately t......cted an exhaustive search for the monkey said five decades of warnings did little to save the monkey from extinction by hunting and habitat loss. "We suggest that the lack of recent primate extinctions is fostering complacency, and that such complacency may allow taxa to become extinct that could have been ...Five New York City research institutions collaborate to study 3-D structures of proteins
...structions for making the proteins. It would take decades to determine every three-dimensional structure of every protein encoded by the human genome, and this undertaking would yield many of the same shapes over and over. Because of this, the scientists in the NYSGRC suggest focusing primarily on disease-r...Researchers discover major diabetes susceptibility gene
... and U.T. Houston colleagues have spent nearly two decades studying and working with a community of Mexican Americans in Starr County, Texas, a group with very high rates of diabetes. Hanis's team was able to provide extensive family histories, clinical data and DNA samples from 330 pairs of brothers and si...UC Berkeley demographer finds first evidence that maximum age at death in humans is rising
...wing, from less than one year of age for every two decades to more than one year per decade. This has happened because of medical and public health advances throughout the century, said Wilmoth, whose analysis ruled out simple population growth as a factor. Some scientists had thought that the increased num......ts the project. He predicts that over the next few decades the online cadaver will be more frequently used than actual cadavers or textbooks. "The virtual cadaver has a number of advantages over real cadavers," said Ackerman. "You can use it over and over, it's cheaper, you can make mistakes and correct them...November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY highlights
...in pulses caused by earthquakes that occurred many decades ago, and that these pulses may influence the likelihood of earthquakes on other faults in the system. If so, combining geologic and geodetic data, as in this study, offers a potential to understand fault system behavior - especially how short term ef...Adult stem cell therapy for heart failure proves promising
...ng diseases affecting several organs, emerged from decades of basic research. "In the classic view of science, bone marrow had only one function - to replace red cells and white cells in the blood," Chiu explains. "The stromal cells were thought to be there just to support the production of blood cells. O...Clinton names a diverse group of researchers to receive the 2000 National Medals Of Science
...spect of modern elementary particle physics. Four decades later, Gary Becker of the University of Chicago, r...impact on the nation's public policy for over five decades regarding uses of floodplains and non-structural approaches to reduce damage from flooding and other...Carolina scientists the first to identify and purify liver stem cells
...ave been putting mature liver cells in culture for decades but they always had to put them in at very high densities or they didn't survive. This meant you could never ask whether a given cell was capable of extensive growth or capable of producing daughter cells of more than one fate. We now have condition......ems that vision researchers have grappled with for decades vanish. Namely, how does the ropy physics of the eye give rise to the largely flawless experience of visual perception? Leaving aside the blind spot in each retina and the fact that we view the world through a jerky sequence of eye movements or "sacc...