Hunted deer make up for losses of bucks, UF research shows
...specially deer," said Labisky, who has spent three decades researching white-tailed deer. "With males-only hunting, it is very, very difficult to deplete a deer population." General deer hunting season opens at different times in Florida during the fall (the season opens this Sunday in Central Florida). ...Mother nature cleans up human-made mess
...the Arctic to have significantly recovered despite decades of sewage dumping, proving that if given a chance, nature can help people clean up their act. Marianne Douglas, a geology professor, and her co-investigator, Queen's University professor John Smol, analyzed clusters of algae or diatoms and water sam...Just as you suspected: research shows a lot of things that taste bad are good for you
... acrid or astringent the food industry has devoted decades of work to removing these phytonutrients. Dr. Adam Drewnowski, director of the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, said in a research review published Dec. 1, 2000, by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that when it comes to phytonutrients, th...IIASA releases scientific study linking population growth to climate change
... benefits of population policies would appear many decades in the future and would not help meet short-term goals, such as the emissions targets agreed to by industrialized countries in the Kyoto Protocol. However, realizing the long-term benefits would require strengthening population policies now. Accor...Counting salmon essential measure of recovery efforts
Either count the fish or count on many more decades of debate about what's helping and what's hurting Pacific Northwest salmon. That's what leaders of a yearlong effort to determine the best ways of monitoring salmon conservation efforts say in a report issued Dec. 1. In Washington state alone, there......n America. "High cholesterol levels work over decades to cause heart disease," Denke said. "Children consuming diets high in saturated fat have higher cholesterol levels and more coronary artery plaque buildup than children on low saturated fat diets. A healthy diet has important long-term benefits." ...Campaign to protect critically endangered beluga sturgeon
... to quickly overfish a population and it can take decades to recover. Caviar Emptor proposes a number of actions that the U.S. government, international governing bodies, and consumers can take to prevent further decline, including promoting alternatives such as environmentally sound, farm-raised cavia...New N.C. ferry-linked water monitoring begins generating useful data for analysis
...ven the fact that there are predictions of several decades of elevated tropical storm activity, the timing couldn't be better for taking a serious look at North Carolina's remarkable water resources in the east," he said....Science's Top 10: genome sequencing named top scientific advance of 2000
... the most common meteorites arriving on Earth. For decades astronomers have been unable to find the source of the so-called "ordinary chondrite" meteorites, bits of the unaltered building blocks of the solar system. But Eros's elemental composition, measured as NEAR Shoemaker came closer to the asteroid than...Scientists discover potent protein that prevents HIV infection
...keys," says Kim. This report is the culmination of decades long research into the structure of the HIV coat protein, called gp41. Two years ago, Dr. Kims lab at the Whitehead Institute used x-ray crystallography to decipher the architecture of gp41. This protein plays a key role in allowing the virus membran...Economic costs of extreme weather, state by state
...used in the compositeranking. The Web site reports decades of information in constant 1999 dollars(updated fr...m hasuncovered new data that adds as much as three decades of informationfor some hazards. A new section on lightning was added because "lightning is one of th...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...s studied development patterns in Brazil in recent decades and used information from those trends to project the future impacts of current plans. Part of whats important about this report is we tried to tie together a lot of different components that often are not considered, but have long term impacts on la...Scientists see early indications of lobster decline
... lobster abundances and landings over the past two decades throughout the Northeast, from Delaware to Newfoundland, Canada, we cannot explain the pending decline," says Steneck. "Further, larvae and young-of-the-year lobsters in Rhode Island and Maine are showing similar patterns of change despite being loca...Scientists isolate premature ovarian failure gene
...s in newborns and trigger early onset of menopause decades later. The finding could help researchers decipher... with enough eggs to sustain fertility for several decades of her adult life. Typically, menopause occurs in a womans late 40s or early 50s. However, prema...University of Illinois at Chicago expert tinkers with evolution to create human 'Built-to-Last'
...erve and retina, which is prone to detaching after decades of use, fragile hair cells in our ears leading to hearing loss, and a common passageway for food and air, raising the risk of inhaling food or drink as muscle tone decreases with age. Then, there are what the authors refer to as plumbing problems. ...Human gut potential breeding ground for antibiotic resistance
..., we believe that the increase over the past three decades is due to horizontal gene transfer," says Salyers. These findings raise the question of whether antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria in the food supply could be transferred to bacteria in the human gut. "For example, you feed a pig antibio...Humans at work and play in high altitude environments
...ry research on mountain environments. With several decades of significant mountain research, the team presenting the AAAS review has found that high-altitude studies are an important resource for better understanding of human health and happiness....Gainesville, FL --- Cardiologists have spent decades puzzling over what causes chest pain in many of their female patients. That's because the majority of women who complain of severe discomfort actually have coronary arteries that appear relatively normal in X-ray images of the heart. Now Univers......t has been used extensively in Florida for several decades and six to eight years' worth of monitoring results are available for most projects. This data was used to develop a methodology for predicting the evolution of beach management projects. Dean will describe this methodology, share results for seven p...UNC scientists find U.S. children snack more now than they did two decades ago
...n nutrition. "Rapid increases over the past three decades in childhood obesity and related complications hav... about 18 percent to about 25 percent. Whereas two decades ago they were taking in 450 kilocalories of energy in this way, now they're getting 600 kilocalories...