Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
... used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patr...technique used for decades by managers to estimate fish abundance and set fishing limits. Estimates are based on a ratio comparing the number of fish caught...Movies reveal that the process of insulating nerves is surprisingly dynamic
... in myelination. The zebrafish is a small tropical fish that has become a popular species for studying the process of development in vertebrates (animals with backbones). Because zebrafish embryos are transparent and develop within a few days, they allow biologists to watch developmental processes as they...Diet can provide protection against development of certain cancers, new studies show
...arch meeting, investigators have found that eating fish regularly as an adult, or soy as a young girl, or ...e, and colorectal cancer risk in men Men who ate fish five times a week or more had a 40 percent lower risk of developing colorectal cancer compared to me...... species that eat worms, unlike relatives that eat fish or snails and occasionally deliver a fatal sting to a human fisherman. -- RgIA is from the species Conus regius, which measures 1.6 to 2.8 inches in length and lives from Georgia southward along Central America to Brazil's central coast. -- Vc1.1...Ice-breaker Polarstern to explore uncharted seafloor
...unities, from microbes to whales, including bottom fish and squids. THE ITINERARY DEPARTURE - NOVEMBER ...edition will focus on biological investigations on fish stocksas a contribution to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine LivingResources (C...Colorado company to sell medical food products based on Wake Forest discovery
...t are converted by humans to the fat equivalent of fish oil.) Efficas, Inc. is a Boulder-based health science and technology development company "committed to developing science-based products for the nutritional management of the immune system both for humans and pets," according to a company news releas...Philippines president enacts new national conservation policy
...of the centre" of the world's most plentiful shore fish region located at the apex of the Coral Triangle t..."center of the center" of the world's marine shore fish diversity, with the world's highest concentration of marine species including fish, shrimp, crabs, ...Accelerating loss of ocean species threatens human well-being
...ne in overall health of the ecosystem, because the fish rely on the clean water, prey populations and dive...ood and Agriculture Organization's database of all fish and invertebrates worldwide from 1950 to 2003. The scientists also looked at a 1000-year time series...USGS at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
...ater, and wastewater treatment plant effluent, and fish and aquatic invertebrate habitats are degraded. La... hormone concentrations, were notably different in fish from the Gila River when compared to fish from the Colorado River, indicating that organochlorine co...By 2048 all current fish, seafood species projected to collapse
...For example, if the long-term trend continues, all fish and seafood species are projected to collapse with... said. "At this point," Worm said, "29 percent of fish and seafood species have collapsed -- that is their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very c...New evidence to explain how a common tropical fish mends a broken heart may suggest methods for coaxi... the body, is one of two chambers that make up the fish heart. "This study gets at some of the important mechanistic questions about how they rebuild the he...Accelerating loss of ocean species threatens human well-being
...by the decline in overall health of the ecosystem fish rely on the clean water, prey populations and dive...d Agriculture Organization's (FAO) database of all fish and invertebrates worldwide from 1950 to 2003. The scientists also looked at a 1000-year time serie...Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink
..., researchers baited crab traps with menhaden -- a fish typically used for bait -- that had been rotting i...crabs readily ate both freshly thawed menhaden and fish that had soaked in water with antibiotics, but refused to eat the rotten fish not protected from mic...Deadly hypoxic event finally concludes
...e systems function and can recover. We expect some fish to return fairly quickly, but with other life forms, it's hard to say. And we have deadlines, we need to get a lot of this information before another possible hypoxic event starts next year." Funding is still inadequate for the types of video monitor...Scientists find lamprey a 'living fossil'
...n fossil shows that these anatomically specialized fish are "holdovers" from ancient marine ecosystems, Co...vivors, these animals predate the advent of modern fish and have survived at least four major extinction events. "There are few representatives of these ea...Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to speak at Yale Dam Conference
...opment. However, they also disturb the habitats of fish and other aquatic organisms, alter river landscapes and displace entire communities. The conference will promote discussion between academics, technical experts, social justice advocates, politicians and engineers on domestic and international dam pr......act with contaminated water to eating contaminated fish and seafood, or even inhalation of airborne toxins from sea spray. The impact on public health and regional economies is intensifying as the frequency and duration of harmful bloom occurrences continues to grow. Diaz and other researchers will be bu...Boston University biologists discover amphibian eggs use defenses against water molds
...tial mortality for aquatic eggs of a wide range of fish and amphibian species throughout the world," said Dr. Gomez-Mestre. "The observations and results of this study demonstrate that there are both parental and embryonic-stage traits that defend egg clusters against water mold infections in three specie...HYPER-CEST MRI breaks new ground in molecular imaging
...non naturally present in body, so we don't have to fish out a small change in an MRI signal with a high background like other MRI contrast agents. In that sense, HYPER-CEST is more like a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) probe. Because multiple xenon biosensors can be used to detect different targets a......ts the Cause? During a study to find the cause of fish kills and lesions in the South Branch of the Potomac River in 2003, scientists noted a high prevalence of intersex in small-mouth bass. Subsequent sampling revealed about 80 percent of male small-mouth bass had intersex. This anomaly has been observ...