Black water turns the tide on Florida coral
...ter" spanning over 60 miles in diameter formed off southwestern Florida and contributed to severe coral reef stress and death in the Florida Keys, according to results published from research funded by NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). T...Succulent Karoo to benefit from $8 million in grants
...tile and invertebrate diversity. Stretching across southwestern South Africa into southern Namibia, the Succulent Karoo is the only desert on Earth recognized as a biodiversity hotspot--one of 25 highly threatened regions where 60 percent of terrestrial species diversity is found on only 1.4 percent of the Earth'...Riparian birds can rebound after cows are gone
...st that removing cattle from riparian areas in the southwestern United States can have profound benefits for breeding birds," say Krueper and his colleagues....Nitrogen may increase Bt levels in corn
...rtain corn insect pests, such as fall armyworm and southwestern cornborer. The Bt corn hybrids provide farmers with an alternative to avoid costly damage from feeding by these pests without the use of pesticides. Two corn hybrids with different types of Bt toxin were used in the experiment. These hybrids were gro...Science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds (February 2003)
...d damaged conifers at three sites of landslides in southwestern Montana were examined and showed signs of disturbance that indicate landslides and periods of movement during the 20th century. Interestingly, the evidence of the slides and shifting of the Earth's surface found in many trees, occurred the year follo...Peoples' household dynamics crucial to biodiversity
...bitats from endangered pandas in the mountains of southwestern China to the subdivisions that press against the Florida Everglades. In a nutshell: Across the world, in both developed and developing countries, households are generally getting smaller, and there are many more of them. Multigenerational living arra...UN Foundation & Conservation International forge $15M partnership to protect global biodiversity
...signate a 1,000,000-acre (402,000-hectare) area in southwestern Cambodia's Central Cardamom Mountains as a protected area. The Cardamoms, which Cambodia plans to nominate as a World Heritage site, are home to most of Cambodia's large mammals and half of the country's birds, reptiles and amphibians. Two wildlife ...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Albuquerque, October 12-15
...pics on bioinformatics, drug discovery, education, southwestern United States environmental issues, materials, nuc...5, rmartin@cc.usu.edu ) Haze formation in the southwestern U.S. Regional haze formation in the southwestern United States has become a serious issue. This pr...DNA evidence suggests 3 types of elephants roam Africa
...e the Niger River Delta and the volcanic region of southwestern Cameroon. Based on their genetic data, the UCSD biologists believe that the west African populations have been isolated for as long as 2.4 million years. The UCSD scientists note in their paper that while their genetic analyses of the mitochondrial,...Cambodian government creates 1,000,000-acre protected area
...Forest, a 1,000,000-acre (402,000-hectare) area in southwestern Cambodia's Central Cardamom Mountains. The Cardamoms are home to most of Cambodia's large mammals and half of the country's birds, reptiles and amphibians. Two wildlife sanctuaries border the area, bringing the total land under protection to 2.44 mil...First ever census of jaguars completed
...the jaguar's sprawling range from Argentina to the southwestern United States. It can finally determine not only how many cats are out there, but more importantly, where conservationists should focus efforts to preserve jaguar populations. "Up to this point, scientists have based their efforts as to where to pr...Dispatches and images available: Human impact on giant panda habitat
... in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, southwestern China. Jianguo (Jack) Liu, an associate professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State is leading the research team, which is partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Liu received an award from NSF's Faculty Early Career De...University of California, Riverside to host spider experts
...lifornia (e.g., two-eyed spiders found only in the southwestern deserts) and some 1 to 2 mm-long spiders that people rarely see because these spiders live in leaf duff. The meeting is not all work and no play. A welcoming social, a barbeque, and a banquet will offer participants the opportunity to socialize with...Massive icebergs may affect Antarctic sea life and food chain
...t broke off theRoss Ice Shelf and drifted into the southwestern Ross Sea wasas large as the state of Connecticut (... region was more than 40 percent below normal. The southwestern Ross Sea is one of the most biologicallyproductive regions in the Southern Ocean surroundingAntarcti...Researchers project future shrinking biodiversity of Mexican species
... Mexican chachalaca, a bird found only in tropical southwestern Mexico, may be greatly affected by changing climate. Under some climate change scenarios, the species' distribution area in interior Mexico would become much less habitable, while its coastal range would remain intact. A narrow band of habitat in t...A 27-year dry spell affecting the southwestern part of Australia could be a foretaste of future n... have an influence across southern, and particular southwestern Australia. Dr Bates says that present indications are that such a prolonged dry spell is fairly rare...Signs of recovery in Adirondack lakes apparent, say researchers
... for the apparent changes seen in the lakes in the southwestern part of the Adirondack Park, an area hardest hit by acid rain. "Recovery doesn't happen overnight," says Charles Boylen, professor of biology and DFWI associate director. "One of the reasons we need long-term data is that other factors can come into...Wild jaguar photographed in Arizona
...n will persist and perhaps repopulate parts of the southwestern United States." Although never plentiful in the southwestern United States, jaguars did inhabit the area before being largely eliminated as a result of human per......Conservation Biology. Jaguars once ranged from the southwestern U.S to northern Argentina.Threats to the big cats include poaching, habitat loss and competitionwith people for peccaries, tapirs and other prey. Another threat to jaguars is that there is no consensus for how toconserve them. "Most countries do not ......stating. This honeybee is well established in the southwestern United States and is spreading northward into the Central Valley area of California and into the southeastern United States, says Calderone. These are the principal queen and package-bee producing areas that supply beekeepers with new stock to repla...