Liberia announces protection of 155,000-acres of forest
..., Jr., Economic Advisor to Mr. Bryant. Scientists estimate that 600,000 western chimpanzees once lived throughout western Africa, but fewer than 25,000 remain. The numbers are expected to drop dramatically, with entire populations forecast to disappear within 10-20 years. They are classified as Endangered by...Daily vitamins could prevent vision loss among thousands
...ogists and other scientists participating in AREDS estimate there are 8 million people in the United States ag...f AMD. "Without treatment to reduce their risk, we estimate that 1.3 million adults would develop the advanced stage of AMD," says Neil M. Bressler, M.D., lead ...... another animal. "The trick comes in being able to estimate whether the food will be plentiful or not when it is ready to reproduce, because it needs to make the decision to be male or female well before that," said Pilgrim. "This research helps understand how animals adapt to a variable environment, and to a...Computer model offers new tool to probe Woburn toxic waste site
...werful forensic tool, Bair said. With them, we can estimate a plausible range of TCE and PCE concentrations ca...lean water from the six other city wells, and then estimate the amount of contaminants that were likely delivered to homes in Woburn," Bair explained. Bair said...Salk news: Gene chips and crop yield
... computer analysis to point to likely genes and to estimate how large the genome would be. Scientists now are taking the next step; using direct experimental methods to determine whether the computerized estimates were correct. "By putting the entire genome on gene chips, we found that the computers were wro...Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon
... gas. Dukes then used these "recovery factors" to estimate how much ancient plant matter was needed to produc...der a wide range of environmental conditions, each estimate is subject to a wide range of uncertainty. Plants in your tank? Dukes calculated ancient plant ...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
... also being catalogued each year. CoML scientists estimate that 210,000 marine life forms of all types are currently known to science, but the total in existence could be up to 10 times that number. The first Census report - The Unknown Ocean: Baseline Report for the Census of Marine Life - reviews the sta...Saliva spits out information on chemical exposure
... exposure in humans and a modeling method than can estimate the dose. Researchers say the technology could be adapted to test for a variety of contaminants, including chemical warfare agents. The research project began with an Environmental Protection Agency grant to study pesticide exposure in adults and chi...A new molecular culprit for type II diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
...ters for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta estimate that more than 18 percent of American adults older than age 65 have diabetes, almost entirely of type II." As the life expectancy of people around the world continues to increase, this and other age-related diseases will become an even greater public...Childhood brain tumors associated with rarely inherited BRCA2 gene mutations
...a patients is not documented worldwide, scientists estimate that the likelihood of being a carrier for this disorder is somewhere between 1 in 300 and 1 in 100, the carrier frequency varying by ethnic group. If both parents carry a mutation in the same Fanconi anemia gene, each of their children has a 25 perc...From genome comparisons, UCSD researchers learn lessons about evolution and cancer
...5 percent of the human genome. While reaching that estimate using computers, the researchers were not yet able to point to specific locations in the genome where these rearrangements are more commonplace. The PNAS paper departed from the prevailing 'random breakage' theory of evolution that has been widely he...First extrasolar planets, now extrasolar moons
...circling planets around other stars? If we make an estimate based on our own Solar System, several thousands will be found -- however, no one knows for sure. That's what makes the quest so exciting!...Antarctic penguins thrive in ocean 'oases'
... temperature that were used in a computer model to estimate phytoplankton productivity. The researchers found, taken together, the Ross Sea, Ronne Ice Shelf, Prydz Bay, and Amundsen Sea polynyas were responsible for more than 75 percent of total plankton production. The researchers were surprised to find how ...Scientists estimate risk of raven predation on desert tortoises
... federally listed threatened tortoises. Scientists estimate that common raven populations in the western Mojave Desert have exploded by 1,500 percent over the past 25 years, in response to the constantly replenished food and other resources that human developments have made available to them in an environment...New study shows why hypertension affects black males disproportionately
...sure waveform of the radial artery was utilized to estimate compliance. Resultant values were averaged and yielded an estimate of arterial compliance. Power spectral density analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pr...Using GPR to estimate tree root biomass
... greatly improved the ability of GPR to accurately estimate root biomass. He was also able to correct for the ...n the right conditions, GPR can be used to rapidly estimate root biomass, dramatically reducing the number of soil cores that are usually needed and providing a...Ocean plant life slows down and absorbs less carbon
...in the satellite records and to create an improved estimate of NPP. The authors found nearly 70 percent of the NPP global decline per decade occurred in the high latitudes (above 30 degrees). In the North Pacific and North Atlantic basins, phytoplankton bloom rapidly in high concentrations in spring, leading ...OHSU scientists uncover key protein for Fanconi anemia, cancer susceptibility
...-ovarian cancer-susceptibility pathway. Scientists estimate that the worldwide carrier frequency for Fanconi anemia is between 1 in 600 and 1 in 100, according to the nonprofit foundation Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Inc. Dave Frohnmayer, who with his wife, Lynn, formed the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund after ...Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory, says new study
...cted one mile away. This report gives a reasonable estimate of what type of pollutants were actually present at Ground Zero. "The debris pile acted like a chemical factory. It cooked together the components of the buildings and their contents, including enormous numbers of computers, and gave off gases of tox......aid Alberts, "they use any information they can to estimate their own paternity." An adult male, for example, may associate his monopolization of the mother's fertile period with the baboons born soon thereafter, which is considered a behavioral cue. Or he may rely on phenotypic cues, ones based on observable...