Researchers offer new insights on arid, semiarid landscapes
...ication can be achieved by looking back in time at historic legacies, considering environmental factors and studying soil, typography and soil parent material. Also considered is the influence of wind, water and animals as they transport water, nutrients, soil particles, plant litter and seeds. The redistribu...Retired FSU professor captures a 'living fossil' on video
...life biologist Uthai Treesucon are being hailed as historic images documenting a true "living fossil," the Laotian rock rat. The Laotian rock rat is so called for its only known habitat -- limestone outcroppings in Central Laos -- and the appearance of the animal's head and face, which sport long whiskers and...The Euroscience Open Forum 2006 opens its doors to scientists and the public
...at the Marienhof square and in the old part of the historic town hall (Altes Rathaus). ...New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago
...go. The tigers now occupy only 7 percent of their historic range. This landmark study, commissioned by the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation's Save The Tiger Fund and produced by some of the world's leading tiger scientists at World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Smithsonian's Nationa......t remain. The study, "Conservation implications of historic sea turtle nesting beach loss," appears in the Aug...y reduced by people. Using trade records from 163 historic sources in four time periods in 20 Caribbean regions, McClenachan and colleagues mapped the historic...USGS at 2006 International Mercury Conference
...tspot, and extensional geothermal systems and used historic data to estimate emissions from volcanoes. USGS f.... 11 Reducing Mercury in Mines: Remediation of historic mercury mines has been completed at six of the 51 major California mine sites. Remediation at these...Carnegie's Joseph G. Gall wins 2006 Lasker Award
...lly rigorous optics with a hands-on examination of historic instruments from every major phase of the field's development. All of these activities are carried out with the highest standards of integrity, respect for others, genuine modesty and with a sheer joy at the pleasures of discovery that seems undimini...Professor earns carbon sequestration research grant
... Los Angeles. The researchers will investigate the historic carbon balance of Andean vegetation and soils. Under the first installment of the funding, Bush's lab will use fossil pollen and charcoal evidence from lake sediments to reconstruct past changes in vegetation and determine fire. From these analyses ......will apply a similar technology to find answers to historic climate changes from earth and marine sediment core samples. The XRF (X-ray Fluorescence) Core Scanner is only the second to make its way to the United States, and the first of this new and improved model made by Avaatech, a company based in the Net...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
... to a specific active fault, so scientists look to historic earthquakes to identify "seismic zones" that suggest areas of increased hazard. The author will present evidence indicating that seismic hazards are more widespread in central and eastern North America than indicated by the limited known historical d...New study warns against linking ethnic identity to breast cancer genes
...genetic uniqueness. This interpretation views the historic Ashkenazi Jewish population as isolated, and as having undergone extreme expansions and contractions. It attributes Ashkenazi Jewish genetic uniqueness to "founder effects," the idea that genetic mutations can take hold and spread within small, geog...Research linking Ashkenazi Jews and breast cancer genes beset by problems
... genetic uniqueness. This interpretation views the historic Ashkenazi Jewish population as isolated, and as having undergone extreme expansions and contractions. It attributes Ashkenazi Jewish genetic uniqueness to "founder effects," the idea that genetic mutations can take hold and spread within small, geogr...ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
... ESA will be operating an exhibit throughout this historic summit to communicate its activities developed to support the Protocol. It is demonstrating ESA's contribution to systematic global observations for understanding climate change. Some of the variables essential for understanding and monitoring the cl...Edge density key to controlling gypsy moth spread
...nly does pulsed expansion occur, but it mimics the historic pulses of the gypsy moth population from 1960 to 2002 found in the quarantine records. Currently, the containment program for gypsy moths aims at controlling outbreaks outside the current population boundaries. The researchers suggest that "the invas...Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita
...nce that the vaquitas overall range has changed in historic times. Acoustic surveys suggest that vaquitas are not only limited to the north-western Gulf all the year-round, but also that their current distribution is more restricted than previously thought confined to a small area off the eastern coast of th...Project to intensify agricultural production in Great Lakes -- Africa's most impoverished region
...ss-border taxes and tariffs should be liftedin the historic Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for an African Green Revolution....Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million
...ied in different parts of the world. In fact, most historic information is based on eyewitness accounts and not on statistical analysis. Now, a team of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Queensland in Australia have re-analyzed data from 27 countries around the world...Science's breakthrough of the year -- The Poincar Theorem
...e filled in, it looked as if Perelman had scored a historic coup. But, after a visit to the United States in 2003, the reclusive mathematician returned to Russia and stopped replying to phone calls and emails. Other mathematicians were left on their own to determine whether Perelman had truly solved the Poinc......ity, especially since global wheat stocks are at a historic low." Experiments conducted over the past two years by international researchers in the Global Rust Initiative in Kenya and Ethiopia demonstrate clearly that most of the world's wheat varieties are susceptible to the new Ug99 strain of stem rust. "......from ancient wood. Feng and her team interpret the historic prevailing easterlies to be a result of a growing and intensifying northern circumpolar vortex, which was influenced by the powerful Laurentide Ice Sheet, an enormous mass of ice that covered a great deal of northern North America. Under this circula...