Changing climate will challenge Northeast agriculture, CU expert warns
...e said. In simultaneous press conferences in seven northeastern cities, the team of independent experts, in collab...the impact of climate change on key sectors in the northeastern United States. By providing the best available science on the issue, they hope to persuade opinion l...The Institute of Ecosystem Studies recognized by the Wildlife Society
... inform deer management initiatives throughout the northeastern U.S. and elsewhere." ...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...showed that ozone increases in Los Angeles and the northeastern United States will be partially offset by decreases in the southeast. ''However, we found that nationwide, E85 is likely to increase the annual number of asthma-related emergency room visits by 770 and the number of respiratory-related hospitalizatio...Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
..."the most remote forest blocks in Africa," between northeastern Congo and southwestern Gabon. As expected, illegal killing and other human incursions played a profound role in shaping forest elephant distribution and abundance. Altogether, the researchers found 53 confirmed elephant poaching camps; they found ...New species of snapper discovered in Brazil
...razil's reef fish populations, particularly in the northeastern region that includes the Abrolhos area which contains the nation's largest concentration of coral reefs. The new species is named for 18th century naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, whose extensive work in the Brazilian interior remains large...UF study: World shark attacks rise slightly but continue long-term dip
...ilian fatality was a male surfer in waters off the northeastern part of the country. The Tonga case involved a 24-year-old female swimmer who was an American Peace Corps volunteer. The attack off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion was on a 34-year-old male surfing in an area where swimming and other recreational ...Firewood unintentionally transports emerald ash borer
... northwestern and several other locations in Ohio, northeastern Indiana and just north of Indianapolis, and in 200...is might be a good course to take, particularly in northeastern Illinois, but in other areas it might be too drastic not to include the planting of at least some as...Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist
...garaka." It occurs in several river system in the northeastern part of the country. Loiselle himself has discovered ?? fifteen freshwater fishes during his fourteen years of field work in Madagascar He is considered one of the world's experts on cichlids a family of perch-like fishes comprising nearly 2,000 d...Hotspots of mercury contamination identified in eastern North America
...ing mercury contamination in fish and birds in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has identified five "hotspots" where concentrations of the element exceed those established for human or wildlife health. The team focused on levels of the potent neurotoxin in yellow perch and common loons, but ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 29, 2006
...of water used to process the anthrax spores to the northeastern United States. If true, one source told C&EN, it would narrow the likely source of the anthrax to "two or three" institutions in the region that had access to the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN ...Science study explains polio's tenacious grip in India
...ocused on the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northeastern India, which the country's vaccination campaign has also targeted. These states were some of the smallpox virus' last refuges as well. Basing their estimates on the number of times children in these states were vaccinated with the standard trivalen...Study suggests evolutionary link between diet, brain size in orangutans
...sland of Borneo. The morio subspecies lives in the northeastern part of the island where soils are poorer, access to fruit is most iffy and the impact of El Nio events can be significant. Those factors "converge to produce an environment for orangutans of eastern Borneo that is at times seriously resource-limite...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...lling Contamination: The industrial heyday in the northeastern U.S. left contamination in the fractured bedrock aquifers throughout the region. In the Newark Basin alone, some 800 sites are known to have contaminated groundwater. The Naval Air Warfare Center in West Trenton, New Jersey is one such site. The b...NSF awards Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study landscape change
...onses to natural and human disturbances across the northeastern U.S. Led by Harvard Forest Director David Foster... of agricultural clearing 200 years ago on today's northeastern forests, as well as the effects of hurricanes, invasive species, and more recent forest management."...Invasive sea squirts persist on Georges Bank
...vey, who tracks occurrences of the species off the northeastern U.S., and elsewhere in the world. Greater density of colonies observed during the survey is evidence that the infestation is persistent, and not a short-lived phenomenon. Robert Reid, a biologist with NOAA Fisheries Service and chief scientist for...Manatee traveler in northeastern waters not Chessie
... manatee has been sighted in various waters of the northeastern United States in the last 5-6 weeks. It took in the sights along the Hudson River traveling up into Harlem, visited Cape Cod, Mass., and was most recently sighted in Warwick, R.I., in Greenwich Bay. The question everyone is asking is: Is it Chessie ...Fish virus in Northeast spreading to other fish species
...ave found that a deadly fish virus detected in the northeastern United States for the first time in June in two species has probably spread to at least two more. But they have yet to determine whether the virus is responsible for the death of hundreds of fish in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River in recent w...Bat Blitz: Media invited to learn about bats in the southeast
...n the mountains of northwestern South Carolina and northeastern Georgia. The event provides an opportunity for researchers, management biologists, and students from Federal and state agencies, universities, and industry to exchange information and develop strategies for studying bat communities. Media are invited...Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time
... first time in a variety of freshwater fish in the northeastern United States by Cornell University researchers. According to experts at the Aquatic Animal Health Program at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), which causes fatal anemia and hemorrhaging in many...Early bird caught the fish: Fossils depict aquatic origins of birds 115 million years ago
...nitheans were among the feathered fossils found in northeastern China during the 1990s. "The enantiornitheans had the best adaptations for perching, so they were able to dominate the ecological niche that we would associate with songbirds, cuckoos, woodpeckers or birds of prey," Harris said. "Gansus appears t...