UCLA study shows water reclamation could become an important source of future water supplies
...ll watersheds. This habitat loss and fragmentation threatens the long-term existence of many native plants and animals, and represents the greatest threats facing biodiversity preservation. Larger mammals, such as mountain lions, bobcats and badgers, are particularly at risk. Non-native plants and animals, or ...NIH funds new AIDS drug discovery research with $4.6 million
...ffective treatments for this dreadful disease that threatens the well-being of millions of people worldwide," said Joseph J. Seneca, Rutgers' university vice president for academic affairs. "Rutgers is proud to have the work of its scientists recognized by this highly competitive award and to contribute to th...Smaller households fuel global housing boom and threaten biodiversity, study finds
...at is fueling an international housing boom, which threatens the survival of plants and animals in dozens of countries including the United States. According to the study, housing units throughout the world are being built at a rate that outpaces population growth, resulting in a loss of habitat, natural resou...Facing extreme ice conditions, coast guard, NSF deploy second icebreaker to Antarctica
...o push aside -- or shed -- the ice that constantly threatens to fill in the narrow channel. "The freighter and the tanker are ice-strengthened, but they are not icebreakers," Sutherland said. "If they have an icebreaker immediately in front of them they have to stay almost bow to stern the icebreaker is ess...UC Riverside receives $1.25 million from W. M. Keck Foundation
...ch. Plant disease such as Pierce's Disease, which threatens California's grapevines, and exotic insects such as the olive fruit fly, one of the most damaging pests of the olive in southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, are among the subjects of today's intensive research efforts in CNAS. The coll...Fast-paced lifestyle helps to erode teens teeth
...s and part-time jobs, today's fast-paced lifestyle threatens to leave a generation with permanent damage to oral and overall health. "Premature loss of tooth enamel and weakening of overall tooth structure are two devastating oral affects of teens' poor diet that can not be reversed later in life," explains J...Conservation Management Institute developing national database for chronic wasting disease
... fatal brain disease of white-tailed deer and elk, threatens wildlife management throughout the United States. Agencies nationwide are working to control the disease. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute (CMI) a research contract to help organiz...Tufts environmental engineers tackle destructive nutrients in nations waterways
...rients in waterways an environmental problem that threatens aquatic plant and animal life across the country. "Tufts is a national leader in computer modeling for urban water quality issues," said Steven Chapra, who holds the Louis Berger Chair of Computing and Engineering at Tufts. "These grants will lever...Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...roject, which works to end the bushmeat trade that threatens to annihilate chimpanzees; Roots & Shoots, which encourages and supports students from preschool through university in projects that benefit people, animals, and the environment; and TACARE, a sustainable development and conservation program that inv...When predators attack (each other)
...back-country recreational use in mountainous areas threatens wolverine populations is unknown. Understanding threats to this rare and elusive animal is essential to its conservation. Last month, another team of WCS researchers discovered another carnivore oddity, when they learned that a mountain lion they we...Nature cover story - Only 10% of all large fish are left in global ocean
...he species we most value. Their depletion not only threatens the future of these fish and the fishers that depend on them, it could also bring about a complete re-organization of ocean ecosystems, with unknown global consequences." Taking 10 years to assemble data sets representing all major fisheries in the w...Summit generates possible solutions to exchange of invasive species in Midwest waterways
...rable, native fish, so competition with Asian carp threatens the abundance and even the existence of native fis...n numbers due to habitat decline. The zebra mussel threatens these species with extinction. And the quagga mussel, introduced into the Great Lakes in 1989 and no...Satellites to focus on UNESCO World Heritage sites
... the parks in search of fuel, farmland and hunting threatens the gorillas' survival. From the Great Barrier Reef to Stonehenge, there are 730 different sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list 563 of them cultural, 144 natural and 23 both. UNESCO considers 33 of them currently under threat. The idea of the Open...International meeting on the Southern Ocean
...e marine food web. Illegal and unregulated fishing threatens Antarctic animals such as seals, penguins, albatross and fish. By understanding the complex processes that affect the currents, atmosphere, sea ice and biology of the Southern Ocean, scientists can provide sound advice to international bodies respons...Researchers: Fire may help combat fatal dogwood epidemic
...tern hardwood stands of forest. Today, the disease threatens dogwoods from Maine to central Georgia and from British Columbia to Washington and Oregon on the West Coast. The leaves of infected trees develop large holes and often fall off. Anthracnose kills dogwoods either by defoliating them, which prevents th...New medicines at risk from biodiversity loss
... exploitation make a lethal combination that today threatens with extinction cone snails and many other species of biomedical interest. "International markets can develop rapidly in the modern world, which means that wild populations can be decimated before regulatory agencies see any need to protect them." sa...... security and insurance it promises - or sometimes threatens - to be of great utility. As a society we must, therefore, ask ourselves important questions as to how genetic information is obtained, stored and used, such that the potentially enormous benefits can be reaped. This very powerful information should ...Pew report finds GM insects may offer benefits, but clear regulatory oversight is lacking
... scale release of transgenic insects, the research threatens to outpace regulatory preparedness," said Michael Rodemeyer, executive director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. "The benefits of GM insects could be significant, but the federal government needs to move quickly to clarify how it will...Free, public events at the 2004 AAAS Annual Meeting
...an scientists can identify them and global warming threatens fragile coral reef ecosystems, AAAS plans a Town Hall Meeting on marine science issues that affect the Puget Sound area, the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Some 350 policymakers, scientists, environmentalists, fishing professionals and members of ......han a million people each year in Africa alone and threatens nearly 40 percent of the world's population. The major impediment to malaria control is the cost and distribution of antimalarial drugs. Every year, antimalarial treatments become less effective as drug resistant strains of the malaria parasite dev...