Conservation International and National Geographic Traveler announce World Legacy Awards
...ore businesses, organizations, and destinations to incorporate sound environmental and social policies into their practices. With the United Nations declaration of 2002 as the International Year of Ecotourism, more attention is being focused on how the tourism industry can play a more positive role in the prote...Ecologist Gretchen Daily advocates saving the planet by making conservation profitable
...e to ecosystems and the services they provide, and incorporate those values into public policy. Daily will outline her vision of an ecosystem-based economy when she delivers the Topical Lecture, New Frontiers in Conservation, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...High CO2 levels hamper nitrate incorporation by plants
...obal warming can interfere with plants' ability to incorporate certain forms of nitrogen, dramatically altering the plant life worldwide and forcing significant changes in agricultural fertilizer use, according to a plant physiologist at the University of California, Davis. These findings will be reported by lea...Munching microbes aid environment, oil industry
...es must now apply for updated general permits that incorporate the new SBF regulations. Deborah Roberts, an environmental microbiologist in the civil and environmental engineering department in UHs Cullen College of Engineering, helped develop the biodegradation test cited in the ruling. The EPA and oil industr...Fighting the battle of the bulge in children
...imes of introducing a new food before a child will incorporate it into his diet. That's perfectly normal, but not widely understood by parents who are concerned that their child is not eating enough." The School of Public Health will implement High 5-Kids in Missouri's bootheel region with the help of Parents As...University of Cincinnati geologist finds survival benefit to evolving after mass extinctions
... genera throughout the Phanerozoic, and which will incorporate data on the geography and paleoenvironment of each occurrence. In the future, he hopes to use these data to assess directly whether the longer-lived genera really were those with wider geographic and environmental distributions. "We really haven't lo...New DNA-base vaccine approach protects mice against anthrax
...ainst anthrax" and that any future vaccines should incorporate a mutated version of the LF antigen. In a recent, as-yet unpublished study, the Ohio State University research team, in collaboration with scientists from Battelle, has ...URI oceanographers link warmer water temperatures and the decline of winter flounder
...effect exists, regional managers should attempt to incorporate the potential impact of warm winters in their management plans.......a Coastal Forest Project Team for their efforts to incorporate responsible forestry management with multiple viewpoints from the scientific, corporate, and environmental communities," says ESA President Stephen Carpenter. The Forest Project Team is regarded as a model for others who strive to balance ecology and...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
...ng with uncertainty. These new methods allow us to incorporate scientific uncertainty about ecological processes in ways that still enable us to create useful predictive models." According to the paper, the next steps for launching an ecological forecasting initiative include defining priorities for forecasting......pass, a pitch-and-roll inclinometer, and will soon incorporate a sonar altimeter as well as a forward-looking sonar. A library of behavioral sequences is based on reverse-engineering command sequences from films of behaving lamprey. "Now we're almost to the point where theoretically we could begin building whol...Pooling worldwide data about childhood tumors helps researchers gauge aggressiveness of treatment
...at it goes beyond conventional clinical staging to incorporate molecular characteristics of the cancers, yielding more accurate risk groupings and guiding better treatments." Pushing Tumors Toward SuicideDr. Brodeurs team also continues to explore the molecular mechanisms of neuroblastoma. While important, the M......se produced by other living organisms because they incorporate novel amino acids, the subunit molecules of which ...of-principal that bacterial strains can be made to incorporate novel amino acids into proteins. In addition, they could enable scientists to envision the possibil...With an eye on safety, UF experts explore cellular mechanisms of gene therapy
...s an inserted package of genetic material actually incorporate itself into the receiving cell's DNA? Scientists ... hadn't run across. In its natural state, AAV does incorporate into a host cell's chromosome, but almost always at the same specific site, where it apparently caus...Super hearing in flies may improve hearing aid technology
...ensitive directional microphone. Hearing aids that incorporate directional microphones would help the hearing impaired filter out background noise and tune in to one sound - a task that would enable them to better decipher what one person is saying in a crowd of people. "Hearing aids made with directional microp...Amphibian mortality linked to global climate change
... their local conditions really well, then they can incorporate measures of long-term climatic fluctuations into their analyses of their population's mortality rates," Kiesecker says. "Amphibians could be an important bioindicator species because they are particularly sensitive to climate change," Kiesecker add...Extinction claims a furry friend
...for Environment knew of our work, and are keen to incorporate our data into their survey because, while we have been looking for phascogales, we've effectively been sampling arboreal mammals," said Dr Hornsby. Other species detected by the sampling methods included the native yellow-footed antechinus, bush rat...Designer solvents promise revolutionary pollution solution
...iquid solvents that Davis designed and synthesized incorporate chemical groups that react with carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, literally binding them into the solvent. Preliminary results indicate that heating contaminant-laden ionic liquids in a vacuum reverses the binding process, permitting the liquids t...Antarctic sea urchin shows amazing energy-efficiency in nature's deep freeze
...tant benefits, he notes. For example, if you could incorporate thisenergy-efficiency into a fish, oyster, or clam, you could feed it less food and get the same growth rate. That kind of capability would be a great boon to aquaculture....Human gut potential breeding ground for antibiotic resistance
...and pass specific genes on to other bacteria which incorporate them into their genetic makeup, a process known as conjugation or horizontal gene transfer. Laboratory experiments in the past few years have supported this theory. "The question we asked is to what extent is there gene transfer in nature? In the...