'Springer' - A solution to water pollution?
...ing water pollution and carrying out environmental surveys is being developed. Work has begun to build "Sprin...trolled device. Springer will enable comprehensive surveys to be undertaken more economically than is currently possible. About 3m long, 1.5m wide and with a t...World's largest tiger reserve declared in Myanmar
...h as gold mining and commercial hunting. Wildlife surveys revealed the reserve also contains rich population...z conducted much of the Reserve's initial wildlife surveys and helped the Myanmar Forest Department draw up management plans, which will include training and e...Survey reports fall in stem cell transplants for breast cancer
...thers. Professor Gratwohl said that comprehensive surveys such as that of the EBMT reached over 95% of activity in the field. Although prospective studies were needed to provide evidence of the end results of transplants, the survey on current practice enabled differences in opinions between transplant spec...Plant, bird and butterfly species dwindling in the United Kingdom, researchers report
...heir study, Thomas and his colleagues analyzed six surveys covering virtually all of the United Kingdom's native plant, bird and butterfly populations over the last 40 years. Although the results varied for individual species, each group of organisms showed some overall declines. Butterflies have fared parti...Rwanda's primate-rich forests now a national park
...cans, began working in Nyungwe, conducting primate surveys and recommending management strategies for the forests. WCS continues to work with the Office Rwandais du Tourisme et des Parcs Nationaux (ORTPN) with respect to ecotourism development, ranger-based monitoring, and community outreach. Pressure on Rw......Congress as a logical extension of the territorial surveys that were led by King, Hayden, Wheeler, and Powell. In 1879, the Federal Government held title to more than 1.2 billion acres of land, nearly all of it west of the Mississippi River, and only 200 million acres of this land had been surveyed. Well, we...Happy birthday USGS! 125 years of science for America
...ablished as a logical extension of the territorial surveys that were led by King, Hayden, Wheeler, and Powell. In 1879, the Federal Government held title to more than 1.2 billion acres of land, nearly all of it west of the Mississippi River, and only 200 million acres of this land had been surveyed. We have...Aquatic scientists divided on role of sea lice from salmon farms in decline of native salmon in B.C.
.... "With any fish population, one or two years of surveys does not make a trend. . .. There have been drastic declines in pink salmon before, and that was before there were farms here," said McKinley. "There is no study published showing a cause-and-effect relationship between sea lice on wild and farmed fi...Advanced sensors, computing systems tracking sea animals worldwide
...sensing. "Biologists are collecting data from ship surveys or aerial surveys, or tagging animals and tracking them through time. But we need to merge these data together. It's very challenging and we're just beginning to develop common frameworks to analyze this dynamic ocean data in a useful manner," said H...Pesticide exposure among agricultural workers varies by job task
...m identifying questions for the pesticide-exposure surveys and helping to develop strategies for reducing pesticide exposure to communicating information about the project to agricultural workers throughout Eastern Washington....Endangered sea turtles make a dramatic turnaround
...he Nicaraguan coast for more than a decade. "Beach surveys and active protection of females and their eggs can make a difference for the survival of this endangered species in this part of the Caribbean." Weighing up to 200 pounds with a shell some 3 feet in length, the hawksbill turtle has vanished from man...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
...agricultural applications, conduct of biodiversity surveys and Inventories, development of strategies to ensure sustainable yield of biodiversity-based therapies, and training and infrastructure support for host-country scientific institutions. Intellectual property agreements are negotiated among participat...Science paper: Overharvesting of Brazil nuts leading to fewer trees
...ists examined the issue comprehensively, comparing surveys of young and adult Brazil nut trees in nearly two dozen Amazonian forest stands with current and historical data about nut harvests in each. The research was conducted in parts of the Brazilian, Peruvian and Bolivian Amazon. For the surveys, the sci...Study finds that fungus farming by snails causes marsh grasses to wither
...by fungi greatly slows the growth of the grass. In surveys conducted along 2,000 kilometers of salt marshes on the southern U.S. shoreline, the researchers observed that the snail, Littoraria irrorata, actively grazes a live salt-marsh cordgrass. As the snail crawls along the grass surface, it scrapes grass ...First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
... recognize local needs and conditions." "Opinion surveys in Canada and elsewhere have repeatedly shown that the public supports the export of water management know-how and technology far more than the export of water itself. That is what this course will do," said Dr. Colin Mayfield of the University of W...First view of giant crabs - at home on the slope
...mmercial crab - the "giant crab". A series of five surveys are planned in waters of 150-350 metres depth to assess the seabed habitats of the giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) at the edge of the continental shelf around Tasmania. The pilot survey was completed on the State's east coast earlier this month in...Endangered species listings may backfire
...they have enhanced, and most oppose the biological surveys that are critical for conserving species. "Private landowners' responses suggested that the current regulatory approach to rare species conservation is insufficient to protect the Preble's mouse," say Amara Brook, Michaela Zint and Raymond De Young ...Congress allocates funding for horseshoe crab research center
...ial photography to expand the coverage of spawning surveys (how often and where the crabs are laying their eggs); and a study to investigate the dynamics between horseshoe crabs and shorebirds. Funding came through the efforts of Senators John Warner and George Allen of Virginia, Senator Tom Carper of Dela...Climate linked to reproduction of right whales
...o only a single birth in 2000, according to aerial surveys over calving grounds and feeding areas. (To determine the density of zooplankton food resources such as copepods, Greene and Pershing have relied on Continuous Plankton Recorder data collected by NMFS for nearly half a century.) The Cornell scientis......cates, based on data from one of the most accurate surveys of its time the journals of Lewis and Clark. It is a myth that vast areas of the West existed in some sort of pristine state, largely unaffected by humans until the 1800s, the research concludes. In fact, the larger wildlife such as deer, elk or bu...