GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants
...till be others there to continue the job until the dead plants can be replaced. The beauty of the system is that it is not 'high-tech' in the traditional sense. "It does not require sophisticated maintenance, just tending, like any garden," says Butler. The next aim for GROW is to see if it can be reduce...Elevated atmospheric CO2 increases soil carbon
... leading to predictions that increased deposits of dead plant material will decompose rapidly with little accumulation of carbon in soil. In a study funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, researchers from Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Kansas State and Texas A&M Un...Modern forests suffer from century-old logging legacy
...is also stored in soil - microorganisms break down dead leaves and branches into minute particles that eventually become part of the earth. When a forest is clear-cut harvested and burned, much of the carbon it contains is released into the atmosphere. "We now know that the amount of carbon that an acre o...Low-level exercise delays heart failure, markedly extends lives, even with hypertension
...e tissue analysis when all the sedentary rats were dead or near death. Studying the long-term effects of exercise potentially could lead to other avenues of inquiry....Shade trees getting 'scorched' by plant disease
... species eventually decline to the point where the dead branches pose a safety risk and the tree must be removed. According to Gould, current management options of BLS in urban trees include : Maintain plant vigor. The development of BLS is enhanced by other diseases, insects, and environmental st...Increased dampness causes vegetation change
...eaction with respect to changes in the quantity of dead plants, responses of individual plants and the species composition of the vegetation. Changes in the water level were found to have a direct and major impact on the ecosystems. First of all plants submerged by water for the first time die. Then the ...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
...s a result, abalones, which live off the drifting, dead kelp so abundant along the Pacific coast, thrive and grow huge on the highly nutritious food. The researchers speculate that the sea otter helped set up this state of affairs. By ruthlessly preying on sea urchins and smaller snails, otters kept the h...Resetting epigenetic code could aid lupus patients
... and enlarged spleens to failing kidneys. Half are dead in 24 weeks, primarily of kidney failure. Control mice of the same type, but without lupus, live much longer; the females dying at 73 weeks and the males at 93 weeks. In essence, Mishra said, the HDAC inhibitors reset the histone modifications, reduc...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
...onservation strategy to train them to start eating dead seals and sea lions, whose populations are coming ...on even agreed to go around and snip off hair from dead deer killed on the highway," Chamberlain says. "Other people went around picking up samples from dea...Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine
...samples from hundreds of wild birds, both live and dead including, ruddy shelduck, herring gull, black-headed gull, bar-headed goose, and whooper swans, all species that have been affected by the disease. "The collaboration of national and international agencies and groups in Mongolia provides a solid ...Newly recognized gene mutation may reduce seeds, resurrect plants
...d. - A mutated plant that seems to return from the dead may hold the secret to how some flora protect their progeny during yield-limiting drought and other stresses, according to Purdue University scientists whose study of the plant led to discovery of a gene. The gene, called RESURRECTION1 (RST1), has re...Selective logging causes widespread destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, study finds
...w much green vegetation is in the canopy, how much dead material is on the forest floor and how much bare soil there is. Extracting those data has been a Holy Grail of remote sensing. With CLAS, we've been able to obtain a spatial resolution of 98 feet by 98 feet for the Brazilian Amazon Basin. That's hug...Coastal retreat in face of rising sea levels found to be influenced by wildfires
...e of those sites of large retreat, Poulter noticed dead trees with fire scars amid the invading marsh grasses. That led him to consult U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fire history records for the area, which since 1970 have identified "ignition points" where each wildfire originated. When he digitally supe...Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows
...ences suggested that sea urchins don't eat bits of dead sea lilies that they find on the ocean floor but rather bite pieces right off their prey, giving sea lilies plenty of incentive to shed their stalk ends and flee. "It's the lizard's tail strategy," said Baumiller, who is also a curator in the UM Muse...IODP Tahiti sea level expedition gets underway
...ange. The science party will analyze fossil, i.e. dead corals, because they form archives that help decipher the long-term behavior of the tropical ocean-atmosphere system and how it has responded to manmade and natural impacts. Live corals will not be cored, nor analyzed. Because corals live in a suffic...Photos reveal first tool usage in wild gorillas
...eah then retrieved a straight branch from a nearby dead tree and used it to test the depth of the water. Keeping her upper body above water, she moved some 10 meters out into the pool before returning to shore and her wailing infant. Then another female gorilla named Efi used a detached trunk to s...Bleach found to neutralize mold allergens
...ong been known that bleach can kill mold. However, dead mold may remain allergenic," said lead author John...ations for mold remediation call for removal since dead mold retains its ability to trigger allergic reactions, according to Dr. Martyny. The researchers gr...Researcher: Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem
...a. -- Broken sewers, flooded industrial plants and dead bodies are all likely to blame for poisoning the waters being drained from New Orleans. But the water and the muck it is leaving behind -- also owes its contamination to a source as mundane as it is unexpected: Toxins common in most urban environmen...Brandeis leads collaborative team in researching chemical processes in brain
...urons, regulate neurotransmitter levels and remove dead cells and other debris from the CNS, among other functions. This project aims to deepen understanding of the role of glial cells in individual synapses and in neural networks. "We will be studying the role of glial cells in the brain from the molecu...Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...re, mosquitoes do not spread disease by feeding on dead bodies. There is, however, a risk of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile because mosquitoes breed in standing water. Appropriate pest management, including addressing the need to get rid of standing water, is an important public health measu...