Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...ady saved Texas taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and has served as a model for other universities that are developing similar buoys to detect pollution such as oil spills. "This is the only buoy system of its kind in the Gulf of Mexico and one of the few of its kind in the world," Guinasso says of ...Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
...Russian vehicles for the field teams using federal dollars an unprecedented bureaucratic challenge for the researchers importing all laboratory equipment and supplies, and then figuring out a way to maintain them without the standard resources that one takes for granted in the United States. "It's been a l...Better living through urban ecology
... The City of Baltimore will be investing 1 billion dollars in the sewer infrastructure project; nearly 1 million dollars of US Forest Service funds will support the restoration of the urban watershed. Both projects will y......organic food movement and are spending unnecessary dollars on wishful thinking dollars that some might not be able to afford," said Rosen. "Seemingly authoritative sources such as Consume...MSU group reviews Berkeley venture into brave new science funding world
...he department," Busch said. "If somebody waves big dollars in front of someone especially administrators short of cash they will work hard to show that this is a good idea. You have to have some controls; you can't just say because it's a lot of money it's a good idea." Do a better job of educating the p...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
...es and new research jobs will generate millions of dollars in new tax revenues for California. More importantly, if stem cell research results in a single cure that reduces healthcare costs by just one percent, it would pay for itself several times over during the following decade and save lives along the wa...New framework for biodiversity conservation
...rvation agencies are spending ten's of millions of dollars on systematic planning, but it doesn't translate to saving wildlife". "We need to reallocate dollars spent on 'perfect world' planning scenarios to aggressively pursue opportunities to safeguard habita...Leading scientists design new framework for biodiversity conservation
...rvation agencies are spending ten's of millions of dollars on systematic planning, but it doesn't translate t...re the study was conducted. "We need to reallocate dollars spent on 'perfect world' planning scenarios to aggressively pursue opportunities to safeguard habita...'Trap' crop saves Texas cross timbers melon production
...estment, high-risk crop. With tens of thousands of dollars in production costs at stake, Allison called his first line of defense, Bob Whitney, Texas Cooperative Extension agent for Comanche County. Whitney brought in Dr. Forrest Mitchell, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist. Mitchell, wh...First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...r sustainable development and private conservation dollars for biodiversity activities. On the other hand, poor quality land management can hasten climate change, damage ecosystems and harm community livelihoods. An example of an inferior project is a non-native plantation that blocks migratory routes of ke...Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
...ubling CFAR's initial investment, bringing federal dollars into the state of Illinois." The research will be at the leading edge of plant and environmental biology, Lewin said. "The new space in IGB was a critical component of the success of this proposal, and I expect this formula to be repeated for the ot...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
... "What we know is that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost this year. The cause in many cases will go unrecognized because what's left so closely resembles drought," Rush said. The damage has been done to many fields even with a rebound after spring rains and dry winter. Early in the sea...Wisconsin chemists find a new chink in TB's armor
...circumstances, it takes years and many millions of dollars for new drugs to be developed. What's more, she says, many major drug manufacturers are not actively pursuing the development of new antibiotics, despite growing resistance by microbes to antibiotics currently in use. Tuberculosis, once commonly refe...Closing in on the cellular culprits of schizophrenia
...phrenia remains a mystery, despite the millions of dollars spent trying to discover which genes play a role in its etiology. In at least 10 populations around the world, a significant association between schizophrenia and the gene for dysbindin has been noted making dysbindin the most highly replicated schi...Researchers awarded $2 million to create high-tech tools for fighting wildfires
...ing how best to battle the blaze. With millions of dollars in property lost and millions of acres in the American West burned by devastating wildfires in recent years, researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Kentucky, Texas A&M University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and...East Asian governments urged to harness market forces to improve environment, save money
...ast Asian countries could save tens of millions of dollars and improve environmental compliance of industries by blending more market incentives into their traditional "command-and-control" legal and regulatory approach to environmental protection, according to a book launched today by the United Nations Uni...Invasive species: A few bucks and a click away
...isplaced many native species. It took millions of dollars to clean up the waterways, yet the plant continues to spread across the globe, establishing itself on every continent but Antarctica. While recognizing the importance of aquaria and ornamental trade, the authors argue that few enforceable regulatio...Best way to clean up toxic plumes? Give 'em a pill
...ly save hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in waste clean-up and management fees." Current waste treatment methods include pumping tainted water out of the ground and treating it at the surface. "This requires a constant source of electricity and continuous monitoring, and there's always the ...Brood X cicadas will cause limited damage to trees, yard plants across eastern U.S.
...ulnerable. People who have just spent thousands of dollars on landscaping may want to consider throwing netting over the trees during the two-to-three-week period when the adult cicadas are out." Clay recommends that concerned gardeners, vintners and farmers place netting -- with holes no greater than one-h......ive prevention strategies and new treatments. "NIH dollars will be attracted by the stem cell center and the investments it will create," Dorsa said. "We think this one will be well positioned to compete for those dollars."...