Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
...ns now find a comfortable livelihood threatened by dwindling supplies of the native grass they have long used to make baskets. In 2002, the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and the College of Charleston, with funding from the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, set up a study designed to i...Warning to preserve 'unique' red squirrel from extinction
... a thousand of these animals still survive and are dwindling in number due to an invasion by the American grey squirrel, which out-competes reds for food and passes on a deadly pox virus which can kill reds within two weeks. Although Cumbria is benefiting from a red squirrel conservation programme, researcher...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...our content free to readers online that there is a dwindling incentive to subscribe to the print version. This year, downloads of Science articles online at site-licensed institutions topped 10 million; many scientists in those institutions understandably ask: "If you can get it free, why pay for it?" In fac...Out-of-balance ecosystems play role in demise of amphibian populations
...ow why the world's amphibian populations have been dwindling or riddled with limb deformities. Evidence from his and other teams points to increasing numbers of common parasites as an important cause. However, the problems facing amphibian habitats really pose a poignant example of ecosystems out of balance be...Traditional Christmas snack under threat
... data collected and the computer models point to a dwindling number of increasingly older trees in persistently overexploited areas, which have not been adequately replaced by young trees in recent decades. Brazil nuts contribute significantly to the Amazonian economy with more than 45,000 tonnes collected ann...A realistic way to save rainforests
Misty-eyed idealism alone will not save Earth's dwindling tropical rainforests. But a five-year, $3 million study in Panama indicates rainforests can be protected if the pharmaceutical industry establishes Third World laboratories and hires local researchers to look for new medicines extracted from plants t...Scientists estimate risk of raven predation on desert tortoises
...the tortoise population's ability to replenish its dwindling numbers. Ravens are both hunters and scavengers; they can feast on refuse at landfills, find roadkills along highways and eat many kinds of animals and plants. To assess the risk of predation by ravens, the scientists used artificial baits, 2-inch ...Long-term study of humans and deforestation in Amazon Basin gets new support
...study of human population and deforestation in the dwindling Amazon rainforest, conducted by anthropologist Emilio Moran and his colleagues at Indiana University Bloomington, is continuing with the support of a new $1.63 million, four-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...Summit generates possible solutions to exchange of invasive species in Midwest waterways
...are federally threatened or endangered. Others are dwindling in numbers due to habitat decline. The zebra mussel threatens these species with extinction. And the quagga mussel, introduced into the Great Lakes in 1989 and now within 50 miles of the CSSC, could further impact them or hasten their extinction thr......ial for traditional commercial fishing. Reports of dwindling Southern flounder stocks by both national and state marine fisheries groups have resulted in more regulations - and less profit for commercial fishing fleets. In Japan, natural fisheries get a boost from the annual release of hatchery-reared juvenile...Scripps scientists discover rich medical drug resource in deep ocean sediments
... potential from land-based microbial sources began dwindling nearly 10 years ago. Pharmaceutical investigators searched high and low around the globe for new terrestrial, drug-producing microbes, but with diminishing payback. According to Fenical, when considering the ever-increasing resistance of bacteria to ...Studies dispute ultraviolet effect on amphibian population declines
...major culprit in deforming amphibian offspring and dwindling populations. Now two new studies cast serious doubt on that assumption, and the lead author of one says the belief could have had negative impacts on efforts to save amphibians. "All of the concentration on UV might have misdirected our conservation ...UCLA study shows water reclamation could become an important source of future water supplies
Southern California's water supply is dwindling and a drought exists in the state, but the public ... reclamation at a time when there is a drought and dwindling water supplies in California. Preserving biodiversity California is one of 25 worldwide ecological h...Dr. Francis White, FUHS/CMS, receives MERIT Award
...heir time to grant-writing efforts and the fear of dwindling funding. The MERIT Award provides up to 10 years of financial support for continued research, offering the prospects of breakthrough scientific studies and increased job security. In the most general terms, the primary objective of the research condu...Science picks - leads, feeds and story seeds
...) Look at a Changing Earth - Diminishing glaciers, dwindling water resources, deforestation and desertification: we live on a changing Earth. What causes these changes and what are the implications? Without an objective, consistent record of the Earth's surface, we just don't have the answers. Fortunately,...Science editor explores the role of environmental change on global security
...nduced threats to global security. Climate change, dwindling resources and the unintentional spread of microbial pests also have the potential to cause political destabilization, according to former university president Donald Kennedy, now editor-in-chief of the journal Science. Kennedy, the Bing Professor of ...Military technologies and increased fishing effort leave no place for fish to hide
...vancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston. Faced with dwindling stocks and rising demand for seafood, fishers are employing new technologies that leave no safe haven for fish, including the application of military technologies, spotter planes, and round the clock exploitation. New technologies and fishing effort......their efforts competing to capture the last of the dwindling resources. The fuel energy needed to capture a ton of fish has doubled over the last twenty years, says Peter Tyedmers of Dalhousie University. The national and international institutions mandated to control and to prevent the growth of excessive fis...New report documents dramatic decline in beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea
...s on the caviar trade that are needed to help save dwindling populations of sturgeon. In addition, the U.S. government is currently considering a petition filed by Caviar Emptor, a program of leading conservation organizations NRDC, WCS and SeaWeb to list beluga sturgeon under the U.S. Endangered Species Act,......to see why the numbers of the great fish have been dwindling for the past 25 years. If you think the bluefin is just another tuna, think again. It is the largest and most-prized of all tuna types, weighing as much as 1,200 pounds. One bluefin can fetch as much as $50,000 on Asian markets, where its meat is a p...