Fire ants are emerging nuisance for Virginians
... cargo ships. Although humans are most commonly to blame for the spread of RIFAs, the insects have extended their range to nearby territories during annual mating flights and by moving into a new region in search of food or a better nest site. They have also rafted to new locations during floods. Since ...Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
...2007 -- Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In order to develop effective pollution-control strategies, it is important for researchers to identify the source of the contamination. By usi...Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory
...ciated rapid global cooling, which some scientists blame for the extinction of multiple species of animals and the end of the Clovis Period, was itself the result of a bigger event. While generally accepted theory says glacial melting from the North American interior caused the shift in currents, the new p...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
...ven with advanced testing they still can't pin the blame on a particular virus in roughly one-third of all such infections. Scientists can't yet prove that the new virus, known as the WU virus, is making patients sick. But senior author David Wang, Ph.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St....Research identifies causes contributing to poor development of over 200 million children worldwide
...cially iodine and iron deficiencies, are likely to blame for hindering more than 200 million children in developing countries from meeting their full potential, says a Purdue University researcher. "These problems are robbing children under age 5 of full development, contributing to a cycle of low educat...Parents' genes, not parents' arguing, may cause children's conduct problems
...w study finds that parents' fighting may not be to blame but rather that parents who argue a lot may pass on genes for disruptive behavior to their children. The findings are published in the January/February 2007 issue of the journal Child Development. A group of researchers from the University of Virgi...Are we killing the world's oceans?
...environmentally sustainable? And how are we all to blame for the collapse of coastal fisheries? Most importantly, what can governments, industry and individuals do about it? Members of the news media are invited to join leading international researchers and government decision-makers as they search for...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...s national borders. "Bad policies are as much to blame for aggravating desertification as climate change, which is also largely human-induced," says conference organizer Zafar Adeel, Director of the UNU's Canadian-based International Network on Water, Environment and Health and co-chair of the team that ...One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous
...i dangerous to humans has pinned 90 percent of the blame on just one of the parasite's approximately 6,000 genes. The finding, reported in this week's issue of Science by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere, should make it easier to identify the parasite's m...Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita
...Government has ignored such warnings and chosen to blame the vaquitas precarious condition on the lack of water in the Colorado River a result of damming and diversion in the United States. No data have been offered in support of this idea and, in fact, the Upper Gulf remains a very rich and productive ec...Fake pesticides threaten food safety
...unds. 'Generally, speaking, it would be wrong to blame farmers [for buying the products] as in many cases they firmly believe they are buying legitimate products. We've had cases where only after farmers have come to us with a complaint have we identified the product as counterfeit,' says Doig. DEFRA i...UW researchers link deadliness of 1918 flu to severe immune system response
...wn overzealous immune-system response is partly to blame for the strong effects of the flu strain, then researchers may be able to treat the virus by targeting the host's immune system. "We're trying to find targets in the host, instead of just in the virus itself," said Dr. Michael Katze, professor of mi...JCI table of contents: August 24, 2006
...INOLOGY: Individuals with a genetic deficiency can blame it on their hormones Impaired development of the eyes is currently the main characteristic of humans lacking one copy of the SOX2 gene. However, some individuals also have other developmental defects, including defects in growth and male fertility...ACS news service Weekly PressPac -- August 16, 2006
...n the topic, Paul K. Bowyer and colleagues pin the blame on two kinds of bacteria that can infect wine and produce chemical compounds with the mousy flavor. The researchers note that efforts are progressing toward development of a way to remove the mousy flavor from tainted wines. ARTICLE #4 "Mousy Off-F...Rise in sea level, loss of wet lands may account for unstable ground in Mississippi Delta
...idence, or sinking of the earth, bears much of the blame for Louisiana's coastal geology problems. A research team led by Tulane's Torbjrn Trnqvist suggests instead that compaction of the shallowest and most-recently formed delta sediments is the main cause of subsidence in that area. "Our research cou...Science reporters' top challenges include finding photos and well-spoken researchers
...ress officers or other reporters are more often to blame for excessive hyping of scientific findings. The intersection of science with values, morality, or politics also was a top concern for press officers, along with scientific ambiguity. Like reporters, press officers identified deliberate research frau...RSRF-funded research links Rett syndrome to mitochondrial gene
... likely to be bad." To find out if Uqcrc1 was to blame for the mitochondrial defects, the team overproduced the protein in cultured neuronal cells. They isolated mitochondria and repeated the energy production tests. The mitochondria from the cultured cells behaved like the mutant brain mitochondria. "Wh...New male contraceptive targets sperm, not hormones
...doesn't want to take hormonal methods, and I don't blame her. I wouldn't want to take that stuff and have it mess with my body either! But most other methods are clumsy and ruin the moments of intimacy we have together. Something like this could be really appealing." The news about the IVD comes on the ...Americans voice strong bipartisan support for improving the environment
...r-15 percent and 21 percent, respectively. Overall blame for poor and declining environmental conditions is frequently placed on American businesses and to a lesser degree on President Bush's policies, according to the survey. On the issue of climate change, 85 percent of respondents said that global warmi......n the face of current global warming theories that blame a rise in temperature on rising carbon dioxide emissions since the start of the industrial revolution. Shaidurov, however, suggests that the rise, which began between 1906 and 1909, could have had a very different cause, which he believes was the mas...