Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...l in and below hazardous waste sites. R&D Magazine declared INEEL's Geologic and Environmental Probe System (GEOPS) to be one of the 100 most significant technological achievements of 2004. Project leader Richard L. Jones, along with team members Tom Clark, Joel Hubbell, Buck Sisson, Jason Casper, Terry Turne...INEEL uses extremophile bacteria to ease bleaching's environmental cost
... and lasts thousands of times longer. R&D Magazine declared the isolation and production of the enzyme -- named the Ultrastable Catalase Enzyme by the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory researchers who found it -- to be one of the 100 most significant technological ...New findings lead researchers to question basic assumptions of fisheries management
...heries. The Pacific Fishery Management Council has declared several stocks of groundfish--a group that includes numerous species of rockfish and other bottom-dwelling fish--to be overfished. Tight restrictions were imposed to allow the overfished populations to recover, causing economic hardship for many in t...Scientists will discuss remarkable advances in whale research at the annual meeting of AAAS
...s the whaling industry worldwide. In 1986, the IWC declared a moratorium on commercial whaling-a position respected by all member-nations except Japan and Norway. The IWC can allow commercial hunting to resume in areas where a population has reached 54 percent of its original carrying capacity. But if Palumbi...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
...tpolio syndrome. An era not quite over Polio was declared eradicated in the U.S. in 1979. Yet according to the World Health Organization, polio cases worldwide rose by a third in 2004, due in part to a vaccine boycott. Children's Hospital Boston and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital are still seeing new cas...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...nment, Water and Forests to have Makira officially declared a 'conservation site'," said Helen Crowley, Madagascar Country Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society. "This classification will help us successfully reduce deforestation within the Makira Forest Project area by implementing legal forest pro...More proof of woodpecker revealed in audio recordings
...ist from Florida Gulf Coast University -- publicly declared the evidence unconvincing and disputed it in an article submitted to the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Other experts also stepped forward to say that the Science paper failed to provide definitive proof of the elusive woodpecker. In response to...Ultralight plane migrating with monarch butterflies to land in Washington
...sect that migrates and its annual journey has been declared "an endangered migratory phenomenon." The ultralight plane left Canada in late August, along with the monarchs, and will arrive at the butterflies' Mexican wintering grounds in November....Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases
...ater now being piped into some facilities and have declared it safe to drink," says Berkelman. "To also prevent risk of infection, people should practice basic hygiene, frequently washing their hands with soap and clean water or disinfecting hands with an alcohol-based hand cleaner. Individuals should not ea...Survey finds family conversation key to organ donation
...ear on Sunday, Nov. 13 the National Donor Sabbath declared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will urge families to talk about organ donation with a free Can We Talk? conversation starter guide that offers simple tips to help would-be donors initiate the critical organ donation conversation...Satellites support Kyoto Protocol through forest mapping service
... was being used for ground truth purposes. Snchez declared the products matched user specifications, thanks to the combined efforts of the processing team and the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA), consultant to the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, which pr...The Gambia is first country to establish citizen forum for achieving 2010 biodiversity target
... of South-South cooperation, President Jammeh also declared his intention to explore the establishment in The Gambia of an African training centre for the achievement of the globally agreed upon target of substantially reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. Dr. Djoghlaf stated, "The decisions anno...Expedition discovers marine treasures
... Institution's National Museum of Natural History, declared Saba Bank the richest area for seaweeds in the Caribbean basin, including as many as a dozen new species along with commercially valuable species that will facilitate the creation of economic activity zones under PSSA designation. Paul Hoetjes, marin...Princeton professor foresees computer science revolution
...th his theory of relativity, the great Lord Kelvin declared that "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now." Not his lordship's finest hour. I think that computer science bears an uncanny resemblance to pre-Einstein physics. Moore's Law Gordon Moore's prediction that computing power would increas......pical countries in the world." The scientists have declared Camiguin's rain forest to be a key global conservation priority. Efforts to protect the remaining rain forest in which these animals live as a national park have been underway for several years, in collaboration between The Field Museum, Haribon Foun...Dover 'intelligent design' decision to be topic of national forum
...nes handed down a detailed, 139-page decision that declared unconstitutional the Dover school board's attempt to force teachers to read a statement to students that suggested intelligent design (ID) is as valid a theory as evolution to explain life's beginnings. Jones wrote that what he saw presented at the s...FSU research produces images of AIDS virus that may shape vaccine
...rus." FSU Arts and Sciences Dean Joseph Travis has declared the work "a beautiful example of what happens when strong, sound basic science is applied to a very difficult problem." The National Institutes of Health funded the two-year study, conducted by members of the department of biological science and the ...New Lemur species named for CI President
...rtly before Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana declared his visionary conservation policy in 2003 to triple Madagascar's protected areas including vital lemur habitat. "I consider it a great honor to have a primate species named after me, and, given my life-long interest in Madagascar, I am especially pl......selection." Earlier this month MP Caroline Flint declared that choosing the sex of a baby for social reasons would be banned and the Department of Health has been conducting a review of the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act the legislation governing human fertilisation. "Such debates need to co......n plan. "The Department of Homeland Security has declared September National Preparedness Month. It would be shameful if they could not get Ready.gov into shape before then," said Michael Stebbins, Director of Biology Policy at FAS. "It took an intern two months to make ReallyReady.org, DHS should be able t...