Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
... on the island republicoff Africa's east coast now threatens many extant species. The precarioussituation demands widespread help for the rescue efforts made by Duke'sPrimate Center and conservation agencies in Madagascar, Glander and Simonssaid....'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
... on the island republicoff Africa's east coast now threatens many extant species....Fighting Wheat Scab In New York State
...t scab, has taken aim at America's breadbasket and threatens New York's $30 million wheat-growing industry, according to Cornell University plant pathologists. The scientists will be speaking at the American Phytopathological Society's annual meeting, Aug. 9-13, in Rochester, N.Y. "Wheat is an important crop ...Wild Plant Genes Increase Food Production
...elding rice and tomato species, the process itself threatens the genetic base. New plant varieties are usually derived from crosses between close relatives, the researchers explained, and this results in a "genetic bottleneck" that can result in losing plant production and making plants more vulnerable to pes...Long-Standing Puzzle Of Immune System Is Solved By UCSF Researchers
...r starring anewly arising microscopic scourge that threatens human life on Earth. The cellular agent identified by the UCSF researchers as the oneused by B cells of the immune system to introduce new mutations into genesencoding antibodies was never suspected to play such an active role, theysay. ...University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
...angling. How can you manage for timber yield if it threatens analready endangered species? How can you manage for an endangered species if itmeans you won't have college money for your kids? The answer often lies in the use of decision support systems (DSS),computer programs that help managers make dec...Invading Pests Harm People, Plants And Animals
...these pests can be controlled. A new sharpshooter threatens plants. An insect that has recently invadedCalifornia is creating serious problems for both agricultural and ornamentalplants. The glassy-winged sharpshooter's greatest threat is its ability tospread the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which induces Pi...In Logged Forests, Hunting of Wildlife Becomes Deadly 'Second Harvest'
...als totaling 29 metric tons. This loss of wildlife threatens the very forest itself, says WCS. Removing wildlife such as elephants and tapirs that help regenerate treesthrough seed dispersal jeopardizes the forest's ability to sustain itself. Other effects include loss of protein sources for local people who h...Smog impacts: Hurtling through airways, tiny particles may do more damage than previously assumed
...niversity of Delaware scientist says air pollution threatens healthy adults,too, because tiny particles can zoom through human lungs up to two times fasterand penetrate deeper than previously assumed. "Smog kills," says air-pollution expert Anthony S. Wexler, a professor ofmechanical engineering at UD, "perhap...Genetic variation in sensitivity to estrogen may mask endocrine disruption
...w global exposure to estrogen-like chemicals threatens wildlife, domestic animals and humans," saidSpearow,a research geneticist in UC Davis' Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Section. Estrogen is a naturally occurring hormone that is mimicked by otherchemicals dubbed "endocrine disrupto...Biologist calls 30% of African primates 'living dead'
... the remaining forest cover by 2040. Habitat loss threatens about half of primate species worldwide. Determiningwhere the extinction debts are the greatest will help conservationists decidewhere to restore habitat and establish corridors between fragments....Duke expedition to rescue rare lemurs
...uman population increase onthe island republic now threatens many extant species....Sea level rise behind coastal tree deaths
...t marsh annually, Williamssaid. The forest retreat threatens many coastal parks and nature reserves, such asWaccasassa Bay State Preserve, because the reserves are sandwiched between theocean on one side and residential areas or farms on the other, Putz said. IfFlorida wants to have coastal forests, it should ...El Niño triggers tropical forest reproduction
...ientist. Logging is destroying forest ecosystem, threatens local economy and global exports. ANN ARBOR---On the island of Borneo, the world's second largest tropical rain forest is dying. Its death will mean the disappearance of a unique ecosystem where trees time their reproduction to match t......and, as well as timber for homes and cooking, threatens the protected reserves and introduces human disease into the fragile gorilla habitat in the Virungas Mountain Range area. The first applications of the new technology, therefore, will be to assess the existing gorilla habitat, explains...Adult stem cells can produce a wealth of cell types, Science authors report
...l cord injuries. As ethical and legal controversy threatens to cloud the future of embryonic stem cell research, however, some scientists have turned to adult stem cells to discover whether they also have the same open-ended potential. Until recently, researchers thought that the more specialized adult stem c...Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
...p and other commercially valuable species actually threatens the world's supply of fish. The "underlying paradox," write the authors, is that "aquaculture is a possible solution - but also a contributing factor - to the collapse of fisheries stocks around the world." Carnivorous fish "The industry is growi...New crop protection method could save US farmers billions
... crop scientists as fusarium head blight or FHB -- threatens millions of acres of wheat, barley and rye each year. Current strategies to combat FHB are limited, says David Schisler, Ph.D., a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Peoria, Ill. "Many chemical fungicides are too toxic to u......-thrust system in coastal southern California that threatens the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan regions. An integrated approach documents recent activity in the blind thrusts by combining geophysical, seismological, and coastal tectonics studies with three-dimensional structural modeling. These thrusts......er livestock, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) rapidly threatens financial disaster for farmers and, potentially, for entire economies. Effective vaccines have been available for decades, but practical concerns have limited their use. A news article in the 23 March, 2001, issue of the journal, Science, examine...