Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...ess," said WilliamSullivan, a professor of natural resources and environmental sciences atthe University of Illinois. "An agency that fails to produce an EISthat citizens can understand opens itself to lawsuits." To test the understanding level of an EIS -- a document supposedly writtenat a 10th-grade reading......me enormous quantities of water,energy and mineral resources and to push development into areas that areprone t...ing water to the quality of biologicaland natural resources in regional watersheds like Everglades and SouthFlorida, San Francisco Bay and Chesapeake Bay," Eato...Stronger Evidence That Global Climate Change Can Reduce The Variety Of Life
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...g-term environmental benefits. Relying onrenewable resources rather than oil-based chemicals is a majoradvantage. And, no one will have to worry about what to do withall those leftover cashew shells anymore....Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
... novel mechanismthat pools university and industry resources to compensate nations for valuablegenetic material. It is the first known attempt by a major research universityto formally redress perceived inequities related to genetic material propertyrights. For decades scientists have searched the jungles and...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
... has been twofold: thedeterioration of the natural resources of the river and increased flooding.Draining wetlands behind the levee districts ... led to steep declines inthe river's fish and waterfowl populations. The expanding number of leveedistricts on the Illinois River also led to increasing flood heights...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
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...tions that fall just outside an Institutes funding resources and are within the research interest of the ODS can be nominated by NIH Institutes to receive full or partial funding from ODS. The ODS has committed $400,000, or 40 percent of its FY 1997 budget, to support these eight grants in cooperation with se...Chesapeake Bay Sediment : Home To Pfiesteria-Like Microbes
...ymonitoring water, biological, energy, and mineral resources of the nation. (For more detailed information on Pfiesteria and sediment cores in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, contact Thomas M. Cronin,geologist, by phone at (703) 648-6363; or for general information about USGS activities in the Chesape...Captive Lemurs To Depart For Madagascar Oct. 17 For First Release Into The Wild
... reserve has shown that itcontains sufficient food resources for additional lemurs and is now secure enough that they will be relatively safe frompoachers, they said. Past poaching activities may partially explain such a low census. Black-and-white ruffed lemur meat is "reportedly thetastiest," they noted in ...Disease Takes Its Toll On Waterfowl Populations
... monitoring water, biological, energy, and mineral resources of the nation....Epic Of Evolution Conference Brings Science And Religion Together November 12-14
...so be interviewed. From this material,educational resources will be developed in collaboration with WYCC, the Chicagoeducational television station. A special will be broadcast on WYCC and aneight-part video series covering the entire conference will be developed forclassroom use. Scheduled for completion b......th no other economicbase, are finding that natural resources can be a golden goosefor them, if properly planned, in the burgeoning eco-tourism market. Key speakers include Mark Van Putten, presidentand CEO of National Wildlife Federation; Joan Embery, GoodwillAmbassador for the San Diego Zoo and nationally k...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...by hiring two new faculty members, integrating the resources of SUNY Health Sciences Center, and providing student support. Once a master's degree program is established, the plan calls for developing a Ph.D. program. Primary research areas include sensory systems, artificial joints, and the biophysics and bi...Biodiversity Worth $2.9 Trillion
...l formation, biological nitrogen fixation, genetic resources to increase food crop and livestock yields, biological control of pests, plant pollination, pharmaceuticals and other nature-based products, ecotourism, and sequestration of carbon dioxide that otherwise would contribute to global warming (see "Biot...Natural Variability Is Key To River Restoration
...tudy were Bain, an associate professor of natural resources at Cornell; Poff, an assistant professor of biology, Colorado State; J. David Allan, professor of natural resources, University of Michigan; James R. Karr, professor in the departments of fisheries and zoology, University of Washington; Karen L. Pre...Researchers Construct Genetic Map For Dogs
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... Sea Grants in1966 to support fisheries and marine resources in much the sameway that Land Grants were used to establish research inagriculture and mining. While most Sea Grant awards have gone tocoastal states, all of the other states bordering the Great Lakeshave received Sea Grants in the past. Pennsylvan...