Amazon roads may lead to peril for rainforest
...s have developed the first models of what proposed road construction would do to Brazil's rainforest. In a policy forum in the Jan. 19 edition of Science entitled "The Future of the Brazilian Amazon," the research team uses history as a teacher to, for the first time, project the impact of "Avana ...Organgutan numbers plummeting worldwide; species may vanish in ten years, study says
...ce. "All remaining forests that are accessible by road or river are subject to a seemingly unstoppable pandemic of illegal logging, regardless of their protection status," van Schaik said. Van Schaik found that orangutan densities decreased more than 60 percent in areas that have been selectively logged...A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
...entists are close to pinning down the evolutionary road map for the most diverse and largest subgroup of mammals, a feat that may resolve a longstanding scientific debate and shed light on the newly completed human genome. The paper, prepared by a team of University of Florida faculty members, graduate an...Los Angeles oiled bird rescue center opens
...t onLeavenworth Street into the park. Stay on main road over manyspeed bumps. Continue around bend; watch for large parkinglot on right side of street. The bird center is in the middlebuilding to the left of the Marine Mammal Care Center at FortMacArthur....Roadsides may provide butterfly corridors
Iowa has among the highest road density nationwide and, in a conservation twist, t...e number of butterflies that turned at the edge of road and went back into the roadside was 77% in prairie roadsides compared with roughly 50% in grassy or ......ed flood insurance policies, beach-building funds, road construction money, bridge construction costs, and financing for additional infrastructure. The resulting need for nourishment programs is costly. For example, the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 authorized $300 million in sand pumping and ot...Hopkins' Young Investigators' Day winners shine in the spotlight
...ntly found that in diseased cells far along on the road to ruin, p53 triggers apoptosis, or self-destruction. By rigging a model cell system in which p53 is expressed, Yu has found an important gene that's probably p53's direct intermediary for the destruct message. Scientists may one day use her find t...Seabirds still not recovered from Exxon oil spill
... who say that all affected species are well on the road to recovery, if not back to normal. David Irons and colleagues in Anchorage surveyed seabird populations over eight years in Prince William Sound, scene of the 1989 spill. Of 17 taxa whose numbers were hit by the spill, he found that four showed...WWII landmark becomes a wildlife sanctuary
...e well-known Burma Road in northwest Myanmar. The road system provided communications and supplies for th...nd an estimated human toll of "a man a mile." The road has since fallen into disrepair, and the entire valley remains largely uninhabited due to disease an...UF researchers reverse metabolic disorder in mice
... Florida researchers report a small victory on the road to a cure: In male laboratory mice, they have effectively reversed the condition with a single treatment of gene therapy. The findings raise the hope that as the science progresses in coming years, people with the disorder will no longer have to shun...Study reveals critical factors affecting urban pollution
... study also found that the number and placement of road intersections within a city is... of carbon monoxide," Guldmann said. "Constructing road interchanges instead of intersections, and implementing traffic ...Cystic fibrosis patients show too little salt in lungs, will need long-lasting treatments
...sor of medicine at UNC. This work presents a clear road map showing which fork we need to take to develop better treatments for CF lung disease. What remains is largely an engineering problem. A report on the research appears in the July 20 issue of Molecular Cell, a major scientific journal. Besides Bouc...Babies' hands move to the rhythm of language
...lopmental moment when a young child embarks on the road to spoken language. Now, new insight into why this behavior occurs can be found in the hands of hearing babies as they acquire a natural signed language. According to a study published in the September 6, 2001, issue of Nature, lead author Laura Ann......Our research showed that common substances such as road dust and soot behaved differently than bacteria, Small said. Dr. Small has successfully tested biological particles ranging in size from 1 to 10 microns by using lasers and acoustic sensors to detect and identify microbes. In the research, laser puls...Geologists develop new database using GIS for study of evolution of continents
...p (any rock formation in the woods or fields or on road sides) and determine its attributesthe minerals present, the properties of the rock, and so forth. "At the same time, we can zoom in on the minerals and their properties or zoom out to a more regional scale and compare that outcrop with one far away...Scientists design molecules that mimic nanostructure of bone
...m which they take their cues. The matrix is like a road map, made up mostly of chemical signals. Weve mimicked this for bone, but we have offered a strategy that would work for other tissues of the human body, or to create materials inspired by bone that could be useful in electronics or photonics." In th...Scientists developing strategies for upcoming phosphorus mandates
...ny cases, moving excess manure further on down the road to get it to fields in need. Based on the data that weve collected, weve got some really good management practices ready to go....Smithsonian researchers show Amazonian deforestation accelerating
...n the Amazon, says Laurance. When you build a new road in the frontier, you almost always initiate large-scale forest invasions by loggers, hunters, and slash-and-burn farmers. Although new environmental laws in Brazil are designed to slow forest loss, the research team claims that most laws are rarely e...Researchers discover gene causing deadly infantile form of genetic kidney disease
...ARPKD gene now provides researchers with a genetic road map for a functional understanding of how PKD progresses, and paves the way for gene testing, more conclusive diagnosis, and treatments to retard development of the disease. Identifying the causative gene is a major step forward as the basic defect a...URI Graduate School of Oceanography scientists examine the success of restored salt marshes
...of the salt marsh had been tidally restricted by a road and causeway constructed across the main tidal creek in the 1950s. This restriction reduced tidal flow into the southern region of the marsh, impounding fresh water, and changed the existing salt marsh into a brackish system. The salt marsh restorati...