A treatment, not a cure: Calcium silicate neutralizes an acidic stream
...iate underlying causes, they are not feasible on a landscape scale and they will not protect our nation's freshwater resources." The Wollastonite stream application was part of a larger watershed-level addition. To learn more about how calcium silicate impacted forests and wetlands, visit an overview on the H...Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
...y bold and risk-taking people who are changing our landscape and advancing our possibilities."...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
...was a revelation for Dr Fitzpatrick. He explored a landscape unknown to soil science. "We ended up finding a whole range of new minerals, new processes going on in the system quite seriously I'm overwhelmed by it all," Dr Fitzpatrick says. "New criteria, based on properties defined in this study, will need t...Laboratory test of evolutionary theory confirms importance of links between populations
...cal evidence that gene flow across a heterogeneous landscape can alter the dynamics of coevolution. "By workin...munity. "I created in the laboratory a fragmented landscape with communities of microbes growing in different local environments, and then I looked at what happ...Rutgers is on the 'NIH Roadmap'
...cent decades, and NIH-led research has changed the landscape of many diseases," Zerhouni said. "However, very real and very urgent needs remain. NIH is now drawing all fields of science together in a concerted effort to meet these challenges head-on." In this spirit, one of the new grants was awarded to a g......c development and the resulting pressures upon the landscape and its residents. Maintaining quality of life amid these pressures is dependent on the cooperative stewardship of many people in government, academia, industry and the public. The 15th annual SAMAB Fall Conference offers a forum for learning, net...Hurricane Ivan helps student study sinkholes
...er and karst aquifers." Karst is a term used for a landscape where water movement is underground because of the voids in the bedrock. Schwartz is using six sinkholes on Virginia Tech's Kentland Farm along the New River in Montgomery County to measure how water and contaminants move within a sinkhole, that is, ...BU chemist to map DNA's surface, uncovering details that will show how structure abets function
... neighborhood aims to decipher the patterns of its landscape and, in the process, build tools that researchers can use to map protein-binding sites. His research has three goals: to build a database of patterns of DNA's sequence and structure found using a special probe, to develop computational methods that......tones have been proposed as strategies to increase landscape connectivity for fragmented populations. However,...hat extent, corridors and stepping stones increase landscape connectivity. Corridors were more effective in a low resistance matrix (one that facilitates high r...Global warming's impact on US plants, animals determined from review of dozens of studies
...nd potentially irreversible disruption of the U.S. landscape and wildlife," said Eileen Claussen, president of the non-profit Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va. A 2001 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change involving Parmesan concluded that human use of fossil fuels was pr...Poisoning solved after millions of years
... the fossils of animals and plants from a tropical landscape 47 million years ago, all of them excellently preserved. Nowhere else have so many bats and birds been found in lake deposits. Among the mammals even the contents of the stomach are usually preserved. But how did these animals die? The well-filled st......hard-to-reach locations. Dr. Eric Sanderson, a WCS landscape ecologist who is managing the study said, "Imagine being able to monitor a herd of elephants in the Serengeti, or a flock of endangered flamingos in Bolivia, from a lab in New York. This technology may allow us to do just that." "This experiment is ...Science to restore the nation's ecosystems
...ne of the best locations on Earth to study natural landscape evolution and ecosystem development. In spite of its remote location, the area has an extensive photographic history to document dramatic changes. A New Aerial Survey Method to Monitor the Response of Manatees to Restoration of the Florida Evergla...Stanford biologist working to restore native forests to Hawaii
... paradise. In Hawaii, where cattle have dotted the landscape for decades, ranching is becoming less profitable. Some landowners are cashing in on the vacation resort market by developing their land with high-rise hotels, cottages and "ranchettes." But a group from Stanford University's Center for Conservation ...What have scientists learned since Mount St. Helens erupted?
...l--thatinteracted with a very diverse pre-eruption landscape to create a complex mosaic of disturbance across s...nished production as vegetation was killed and the landscape was covered with nutrient-poor volcanic material. Within 6 years of the eruption, most lakes had ret...Carbon sink or carbon source? Aerosols play role in shifts
...n cycle, the research also showed that the type of landscape also influenced whether a surface area served as a...ical properties like the carbon cycle you have a landscape that is actively vulnerable to climate change. "Studies like these can really start putting forward ...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
...id. In addition, it forever altered the Northwest landscape with the introduction of European farming methods and crops to supply its far-flung fur-trading empire. And later, when the supply of beaver pelts began to decline, the company began switching its focus from furs to firs. Export of commodities such a...Study in Royal Society journal on first evidence for magnetic field detection in sharks
... which provides details of a bird's route over the landscape with extraordinary precision. We find that birds develop and stick to individually distinctive routes home, which remain surprisingly indirect, repeating these routes precisely. Our results call into question the established view that pigeons use on...High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
...grasslands, transitional terrain, and desert-shrub landscape over a five-year period. The researchers made their measurements after wintertime and summer monsoonal rains, which varied in intensity by more than 300%. "We found that a long-term decrease in litter cover is the most evident sign when an area begin......o rescue Sam and Frodo from a desolate New Zealand landscape masquerading as Mordor. The image of giant eagles flying around New Zealand, while fanciful, is not so far-fetched as it might appear. New genetic data published in the freely-available online journal PLoS Biology this week from researchers at Ox...