Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation
...s they are typically situated in the extensive low basins of major rivers comparable to the study area in New Guinea. They are currently conducting research in other areas of the tropics including Borneo, Ecuador, Guyana, Ghana and Thailand to confirm the New Guinea findings. If we want the stability of...Smithsonian scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity
...bed lowland rainforest of the Sepik and Ramu river basins in Papua New Guinea. The team collected insects and plants from eight study sites across 75,000 square kilometers of contiguous forestan area the size of South Carolinaand noted the variation in species makeup among the different sites. The data s...Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...king for the basin and should be extended to other basins of the Zambezi so as to improve the data situation and make comparisons between areas, as very little information is currently available," Banda Kawawa of the University of Zambia said. "The products have also shown to be cost effective in relation t...International team to honor 30th anniversary of deep-sea vent discovery in Galpagos
...igzags up and down the middle of the world's ocean basins like a giant zipper, said Christopher German, ChEss co-chair and also co-chair of InterRidge, an international nonprofit organization that will help run the public event. The ridge marks the area where the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart and ...Satellites shed light on global warming
...e very long waves travel slowly across the oceanic basins influencing the major oceanic currents and are believed to play a role in the complex planetary clock that triggers one of the major climatic anomalies El Nio. "These waves are an important means of ocean adjustment to forcing. In a sense they se...Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked
...ava flows and heating of organic-rich sediments in basins along the east Greenland margin were responsible for the global warming and changes in ocean chemistry. The breakthrough came from being able to find a marker the ash eruption that was distributed all over the North Atlantic, and showed up in the...The global carbon budget -- proper accounting means paying attention to inland waters
...er, bury more organic carbon than all natural lake basins combined and exceed oceanic organic carbon burial by more than 1.5-fold. These findings debunk the concept that inland waters are inconsequential when accounting for the global carbon budget; instead they are places of complex and active carbon tr...Texas researchers casting for answers to stop algae problem in Texas lakes
...akes and rivers in five of the state's major river basins have been identified as having golden alga populations, according to the parks and wildlife department. "Typically, in our Texas systems these blooms are wintertime phenomena. They last through the winter months and into the spring," Roelke said. "...Pesticides in the nation's streams and ground water
... on analysis of data collected from 51 major river basins and aquifer systems across the Nation from Florida to the Pacific Northwest and including Hawaii and Alaska, plus a regional study in the High Plains aquifer system. Although none of the USGS stream sampling sites were located at drinking-water intak...'Fish with chips' reporting from ocean top highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
...ntists on two expeditions to the abyssal plainsand basins of the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans. Although those seas are low in biomass, they are richin variety, and scientists say 50% to 90% of specimenscollected from the two expeditions are new to science. The southern deep abyss may hold reservoirs o...Duke scientists explain gaps in nutrient availability within North Atlantic
...we want to do next is start looking at other ocean basins to get a broader view. We may not get the same patterns in other gyres, because the mode waters are different in other basins. But we believe the same mechanics are going to apply."...Climate change will affect carbon sequestration in oceans, model shows
...ect both the uptake of carbon dioxide in the ocean basins and the ocean circulation patterns themselves, Jain said. As sea-surface temperatures increase, the density of the water decreases and thus slows the ocean thermohaline circulation, so the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide also decreases. This...Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data
...at the Upper Colorado Basin and the Salt and Verde basins work together as one entire region." Tree-ring-bas...ime; The longest continuous period when both basins had extreme low-flow years was three years; Within any four-year period, having either high fl...Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins
...fication of individual whales moving between ocean basins will help inform a number of conservation activities relating to humpback whales, including how these populations are defined, studied and managed. Humpback whales were hunted commercially until the International Whaling Commission protected the spec...Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...member of the science party explains, "Bowl-shaped basins such as the Brazos Basin IV are now buried thousands of meters beneath the Gulf of Mexico seafloor and host billions of barrels of oil and gas. Sediment records we acquire from the young basin off Texan shores will boost our understanding of how deep...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...ges in the availability of food delivered to ocean basins over geological time had a more important role in controlling the colonization of deep-sea environments than deep-water circulation patterns. Contact: Dr AB Smith, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK Density-d...Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation
...rrigation projects has been such that entire river basins have been diverted to those of other rivers. Whereas these projects certainly develop the ability to grow crops inland, at the same time such practices drastically affect the coastal zone by introducing an excess of fresh water. The consequences rang...Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
... wetland was constructed by bulldozing a series of basins into the field. The five basins sloped downward toward the river the second basin was at a slightly lower elevation than the first,...Technological revolutions in sensors, robotics, and telecommunications allow new views of ocean
... technology will allow us to wire the entire ocean basins in the future. "It's hard to understand how important it is until you compare it with how we work in the oceans today," says Bellingham. "We go to sea on ships and visit particular places for short periods of time. But what shapes the ocean are hig...New DNA studies verify existence of three right whale species
...amples from individual whales from different ocean basins and found that the North Pacific right whales merited their own species name," said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, researcher for WCS and the American Museum of Natural History. "Our recent analysis using both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA has produced even s...