Natural Science and Public Health: Prescription for a Better Environment
...years, sewage outfalls have carried industrial and domestic wastes into the bay, making it highly contaminated. In collaboration with local and other federal agencies, USGS conducted a 5-year study of sediments at the bottom of the bay. Although most locations tested remain highly contaminated, toxicity lev...Alaska oil and gas exploration good and bad for area life
...uding exploration, production and development - on domestic oil production from Alaska's North Slope. The Nor...gion. Today, about 15 percent of the total annual domestic oil production comes from Alaska's North Slope. The key findings of the study, titled "Cumulative En...Conservation Management Institute developing national database for chronic wasting disease
...und no evidence that CWD poses a risk to humans or domestic animals, health officials advise hunters not to consume meat from animals known to be infected with the disease. For more information about CWD, visit: http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/research/chronic_wasting/chronic_wasting.html . To learn more about CM...Researchers record first 'pheromone images' in brains of mice
...her than a visual image, said Katz. Both wild and domestic animals, such as dogs and cats, collect pheromone signals through the flehmen response, in which the upper lip curls back during exploration of the oral and anogenital areas of other animals during social encounters. These pheromone signals are colle...Three tourist experiences named best worldwide for environmental, social responsibility
...n Earth, accounting for 11 percent of global gross domestic product. Because of its enormous size, the travel and tourism industry often wreaks havoc on natural environments and precious cultural sites. Threats include increased development and infrastructure, greater local demand for material, food and wate...Field Museum uncovers evidence behind man-eating; revises legend of its infamous man-eating lions
...son makes no reference to buffalo, eland, or local domestic cattle in his personal journal, suggesting that these bovine species had not yet recovered from the rinderpest outbreak of 5-7 years earlier. Remarkably, other human behaviors also impacted the dietary choices available to Tsavo lions. The longstandi...Prospect of greenhouse gas reduction drives biofuels market
...ernatives for petroleum-based fuels, produced from domestic renewable resources. Fuel ethanol is the most widely used biofuel for transportation applications. Ninety five percent of the fuel ethanol produced in the US comes from corn. 100 percent of Brazil's ethanol is produced from sugarcane juice and molas...Insect infestation models may shed light on insect and disease outbreaks
...and measles in humans or foot-and-mouth disease in domestic animals, is slowly emerging. In each case researchers must develop a deep understanding of the specific local interactions between the pest and its resource. "The emerging picture is that if you understand the local interactions and use a class of m...Health of American Indians on decline before Columbus arrived in new world
...rsity. The demands of tending domestic crops encouraged people to settle in larger communities, where disease was more easily spread. The rise of towns and cities during industrializa...Scientists tackle the question: 'What will it really take to stop global warming?'
...ush administration's Energy Plan, which focuses on domestic oil exploration, and the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "Mitigation" report, which indicates that existing technologies can stabilize human-induced adverse climate change. The research team, which also included Tyl...Walleye fishery threatened; Puerto Rico aquaculture, calling ALVIN on ocean bottom
...ries. Inshore aquaculture projects are subject to domestic and industrial runoff, and its own wastes can impact the local environment. Offshore, limited technology previously prevented deployments from being harmed by ocean elements. The new cage technology, developed by Ocean Spar, can resist the elements...University of Pittsburgh focuses on building careers in womens health
... issues, including depression, substance abuse and domestic violence. "Gender Specific Issues of Aging and Chronic Diseases" takes its mandate from the fact that the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population is women over the age of 65. Susan Greenspan, M.D., director of the Osteoporosis Prevention and ...UMBI licenses HIV rat to Harlan
... and Israel, provides research-related products to domestic and international research programs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, and government agencies in over 30 countries. "Because Harlan is one of the largest producers of rodents commonly used in biomedical research, as well a...UCR scientists contribute to study that will help formulate new ways to combat malaria
...(e.g., agricultural irrigation or flooded human or domestic animal footprints), and adults rest primarily in human dwellings. Besides Dr. Atkinson, two other scientists from UC Riverside, Dr. Peter Arensburger, a postdoctoral researcher, and Ms. Lisa Friedli, a graduate student in Dr. Atkinson's laboratory, a...NSF awards $4.3 million to Rutgers for Maize Genome Sequencing Project
...ns. While more than half of the annual crop feeds domestic livestock, corn has become a common ingredient in manufactured products, including adhesives, batteries, cosmetics, fuel, pharmaceuticals, sweeteners and wallpaper. The first complete plant genome to be sequenced was Arabidopsis, a small flowering...Rabies vaccinations could help save Ethiopian wolf
...hly 20-80 wolves. Each population is surrounded by domestic dogs that carry rabies, and evidence suggests that when a wolf gets rabies, the disease spreads to about 90% of its pack. In the early 1990s, a rabies outbreak cut the largest Ethiopian wolf population by two-thirds. This population (Bale Mountain) h...Living in a glass house: Ocean organism's novel dwelling helps Earth's atmosphere
...synthesis. However, their study suggests that this domestic arrangement has a much bigger beneficiary: the entire planet, which owes its present-day, oxygen-rich and carbon-poor atmosphere in part to diatoms and their effective use of glass. Diatoms are one-celled organisms that are so prolific they account ...City birds prefer rich neighbors
... "It could be something as small as the feral and domestic cats and other predators that live in the neighborhoods not just how many people have cats, but how many of them are prowling around wild and are good at catching birds, or whether or not people put bells on their necks... Or it could be zoning; wha......nsgenic myxoma virus sterilised 8 out of 11 female domestic rabbits, while a ninth carried only a single embry... able to identify a virus that doesn't also infect domestic and wild dogs, including dingoes. So the plan is to modify a canine herpes virus so it can only repl...Corroding plumbing materials producing environmental problems
...s is believed to consume four percent of the gross domestic product. Serious health and aesthetic problems can occur from microbial growth or contaminant leaching from metallic, plastic, and concrete plumbing material. The environmental impacts from the deteriorated plumbing include holes in pipes formed thro...