Planning could preserve urban forests for future enjoyment
..., the trees are beyond the reach of city water and road systems," says Loeb. "These fires are usually brought under control before buildings or mature trees are damaged but the fires destroy saplings, seedlings, herbs and the humus layer of the soil." Using tree maps created under New York City Parks Com...People and fire at Florida's wildland-urban interface
...affected zones in Florida, comparing demographics, road density, neighborhood forest stand attributes, forest fragmentation, and wildfire frequency. They found the most intense areas of prescribed burning in the north central and panhandle regions of Florida, while wildfire occurred more evenly throughout...Key powerhouse enzyme linked to cancer development
...s of the National Academy of Sciences, may offer a road map to anti-cancer therapies designed to manipulate the genetic pathway that switches the enzyme on and off. The enzyme PRDX3 inhabits mitochondria, the tiny organelles that provide energy to cells and a meeting ground for regulation of cell life an...Rainforest wildlife surprisingly sensitive to landscape changes
...ll clearings, said Laurance. Even a 30-meter-wide road alters the community composition of understory birds and other wildlife, and creates a complete barrier to the movements of some species. Laurance believes the results of the analysis indicate clearly that Amazonian nature reserves will have to be ve...Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard enhanced with new measures to protect biodiversity
...ple, by requiring program participants to minimize road construction and chemical inputs. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative program is a voluntary system of forest management, environmental and conservation practices for wildlife and water quality protection, biodiversity conservation, harvesting practi...Caloric restriction research: moving from lab animals to humans
...ommendations by the Advisory Group can provide the road map for developing such research....ASU researcher puts recalled Firestone tires to good use
...e tires was poured last fall as part of a frontage road along Interstate 17, near Cordes Junction, Arizona. Crumb rubber concrete is also being tested for noise control along a busy freeway in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prior to Zhu's research, similar lab studies were not encouraging for the waste product. Ear...Tourists, soothsayers & scientists try to predict peak Fall foliage color
...ully as a tourist on Vermont's Route 100 studies a road map. Now scientists at the University of Vermont and US Forest Service who track forest color feel they may have unraveled one of the mysteries concerning leaf color. While color development is affected by a number of factors, "one common thread may...Study shows fossil records remain stable in storm beds
...tudied an area in Cincinnati, Ohio, where abundant road cuts show outcrops well preserved along major highways and interstates. The outcrops studied are Ordovician in age. At the time the fossils in those outcrops were deposited approximately 450 million years ago, that land would have been located unde...UGA student questions why snakes cross roadways
...itional wisdom on the topic is that snakes use the road to thermoregulate, according to Andrews. In other ...veloped a unique study protocol. Using a dead-end road on the Savannah River Site, a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Aiken, S.C., she has marked conc...When it comes to sperm competition, size can matterits the female who holds the aces
...her population. This is where the rubber meets the road for speciation. The seemingly esoteric whimsy of female choosiness for longer sperm may have surprisingly important consequences for biodiversity."...Too many turtles may end up as roadkill
...ers integrated the simulated turtle movements with road densities and traffic volumes for each state. Road...f grizzly bears and gray wolves as fauna for which road networks may be a key limiting factor to population recovery efforts." In areas where buffer zones a...Researchers begin to unlock genetic mysteries of Down syndrome
...ute to Down syndrome. "Our study provides a road map with clear signposts to the culprits of Down syndrome," says Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, and one of the lead authors of the study. "There...Prospect of greenhouse gas reduction drives biofuels market
...0 percent substitution of alternative fuels in the road transport sector by the year 2020. The Commission issued the proposed directives in response to Kyoto Protocol emission reductions goals and to gain energy security for the members of the European Union. Biofuels are alternatives for petroleum-based...Bone marrow generates new neurons in human brains
...ing, but scientists should start to look down this road and find out if and how we can go further," says Dr. Mezey. She cautions that it is too early to know if this finding will lead to useful treatments for neurological disorders. She and her colleagues are now planning to study brain tissue from peop...A new animal study clarifies how different parts of the brain regulate sleep
... careful drivers may encounter a new danger on the road themselves. According to the British journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, researchers in Australia and New Zealand report that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. They found that people who dri...Mongolian road threatens last great over-land migration of Asian wildlife
...of animals is threatened by a proposal to build a road through its center, according to scientists with t... New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society. The road proposal is part of the "Millennium Highway," which plans to connect Mongolia to China and the Russi...New genetic 'fishing net' harvests elusive autism gene
...s a tremendous wealth of information in terms of a road map and markers for finding disease genes," said Pericak-Vance. "Now, we need to be able to look at complex clinical information and come up with methods that can help us dissect diseases that have multiple risk factors. This new statistical test wil...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2003
...of new roads were often considered too late in the road siting and construction process. Now, however, with highly detailed geographic information systems and computer modeling readily available, decisions can be made that minimize the effects of new roads or at least accurately reflect impacts to the env...