Poison-Eating Bugs Strike Gold
...Ltd, a Perth-based mining biotechnology firm, of indigenous microbes capable of devouring toxic effluent from gold extraction. The discovery could also pave the way for a major advance in "clean green" processing of minerals such as gold, copper, nickel and zinc from sulphide ores. Dr Peter Franzmann...Protocol For Sustainable Exploitation Of Non-Timber Tropical Forest Resources Is Gaining Ground
...bylocal people. Following Dr. Peters' guidelines, indigenous people in remotevillages of Asia, Africa, andCentral and South America have become decision-making planners and dataanalysts, selecting productsfor increased extraction and monitoring the impact in order to determine thesustainable yields of theirfor...Aquaculture: Not An Easy Answer To Overfishing
...t support ocean fisheries, provide livelihoods for indigenous peoples andprotect coral reefs. Fish farming discharges nutrients, pesticides and antibiotics intocoastal waters. Exotic fish species are sometimes introduced outside their nativehabitat. The ocean's capacity to assimilate wastes, provide feed ......value byscientists, however, despite the fact that indigenous peoples have used them forcenturies. Now, an international team of scientists, led by researchers from theUniversity of Georgia, will examine the pharmacological value a group of plantsthat grow in the homelands of the Highland Tzeltal and Tzotzil Ma...Alien Species Cost U.S. $123 Billion A Year
...aling or exceedingthe damage from wolves and other indigenous canines. Like cats and dogs, many other introduced species seemed like a good idea at thetime, Pimentel said: -- Purple loosetrife ("Lythrum salicaria") was introduced from Europe as anornamental plant in the early 1800s. Loosestrife now invades ...Arctic indigenous leaders, scientists to study reindeer and caribou systems
...rst gathering of natural and social scientists and indigenous peoplesto address changes in arctic caribou and reindeer systems. The goal is todevelop and widely disseminate a comprehensive plan for scientific research thatpromotes the physical and cultural well being of Arctic residents and reducesconflicts ove...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...les. "The beauty of this approach is that bees are indigenous toevery climate on earth, and there are beekeeperseverywhere," Bender says. "And you wouldn't need amillion-dollar piece of equipment and extensive training touse it. The countries where landmines are a problemtypically don't have those kinds of reso...Undiscovered Biological Diversity: A Symposium On Bioprospecting
...vation of cultural diversity, Colwellsaid, because indigenous people reveal what resources are useful."Bioprospecting must involve native cultures," he said. "They have anunderstanding of how to use natural products." Biodiversity exists in both the macro world -- the one we can see -- andthe microbial ...Where the wild ones are: origins of staple crop found
...underground stem of the plant -- that have fed the indigenous people of the Americas for millennia and much of Africa since the 17 th century. But now biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have written the ultimate roots story for this plant in a paper published in the May 11, 1999, Proceedings of...Big bang theory of human evolution?
...e as a new African species that replaced all other indigenous peoples such as Neanderthals, can be put to rest."...University of Colorado salmon study spawns new insight into human brain aging
...he central Colorado mountains. All salmon species indigenous to the Pacific Ocean reproduce just once usually between 2 years and 4 years of age and then almost immediately die. The brains of the kokanee salmon in the study were preserved, sliced into cross-sections and chemically stained to identify areas ...Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
...has been a devastating loss of nursery habitat for indigenous species of finfish and shellfish that people have long depended on in countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines. Another problem, says Naylor, is that farmed fish sometimes compete with native species and spread exotic diseases. She points out...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
... targeted medicinal plants - plants being used by indigenous people to treat a specific disease - that we would find approximately 50 percent or higher activity. But we would never have anticipated 46 percent activity from a general survey of plants selected as medicinals not used to treat TB," Lewis explains......hat urgent measures could save what remains of the indigenous flora and fauna in West Africa. Co-authors of the report are John Oates of Hunter College, Michael Abedi-Lartey of the Ghana Wildlife Department, Scott McGraw of Ohio State University, Thomas Struhsaker of Duke University and George Whitesides of Gu...University of Georgia to host 7th International Congress of Ethnobiology in October
...orgia Oct. 23-27, bringing together scientists and indigenous people from around the globe to discuss "Ethnobiol...its sharing and open dialogue with traditional and indigenous research collaborators. Detailed information about the Congress, including registration fee...Bilbies invade central Australia
...ning for primary, secondary and tertiary students, indigenous groups and the Green Corps; a trainee program for unemployed youth. One of the major achievements of the project has been the successful re-introduction of The Greater Bilby to a 14 square kilometre exclosure within the larger project area. Bilbies...UF researcher: antioxidants play a role in deadly malnutrition disease
... For people in Africa and Asia, we're going to try indigenous methods. Having them dry mangoes, which are all over Asia and Africa, is one idea. They're full of antioxidants, but they aren't in season very long, so if we could teach people to dry them for year-round use, it could help." The study also point...Ancient South African soils point to early terrestrial life
...he organic matter in the uppermost soil zone is an indigenous remnant of microbial mats that developed on the surface of clay-rich soil during the rainy season," says Ohmoto. "The mats were blanketed by aerosol deposits laid down during the dry season." In the lower portion of the paleosol, things are less clea......ve at high altitude. She said the health of these indigenous populations contrasts with the health and performance problems of visitors and has been used as indirect evidence that the natives have adapted to the high-altitude hypoxia and therefore maintain normal function. However, Bealls research findings re......and research with North American tribes: Why would indigenous people walk miles to find medicinal plants if the plants were available on a roadside a few houses down? Working with the Maya in Chiapas, Stepp found that, in fact, nearly all the medically important plants being used grow as weeds in disturbed area...