Organic Food Miles take toll on environment
...d her fellow researchers compared the cost of food miles between organic and conventionally grown produce, ... difference in the cost to the environment. Food miles are defined as the distance that food travels from the field to the grocery store. The study found t...Study of underground lakes in Antarctica could be critical, prof says
...inent, he adds. These bodies of water are several miles beneath the ice sheet which took millions of years to form, meaning these lakes have been undisturbed and disconnected from our atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years. It is highly likely that unique microbial communities that we never knew ex...The fisherman is a predator like any other
... fishing is prohibited within a band of 5 nautical miles (about 9 kilometres) from the coast. This satellite device, the vessel monitoring system (VMS), gives the real-time position of the vessels to an accuracy of 100 m, communicated to bodies responsible for vessel movement recording and scientific monit...Stray penguins probably reached northern waters by fishing boat
...ck and white, was a Humboldt penguin, thousands of miles from where any of its kind should have been. Th...thern Hemisphere? Did they migrate more than 5,000 miles from Peru" That's doubtful, say two University of Washington biologists. Were they the remnants of e...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 30, 2007
...B) is a tightly knit layer of cells lining the 400 miles of blood vessels in the brain. Intended to protect delicate nerve cells from potentially toxic compounds in the blood, and assure a steady-state chemical environment, the BBB also prevents most actual and would- be drugs from entering the brain. In...A living memory chip, black holes on the loose, and a clearer picture of ocean currents
...s out of its host galaxy at a speed of up to 2,500 miles per second, according to a new simulation. This research, led by Manuela Campanelli at the Rochester Institute of Technology, demonstrates for the first time that the violent recoil that follows a merger is capable of ejecting the supermassive black ...Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species
... the Lake Winnebago chain of inland lakes about 25 miles south of Green Bay on Lake Michigan; confirmation is pending. And millions of dead freshwater drum formed windrows of carcasses along the beaches of Lake Erie in 2006, all victims of VHSV. Other species from the Great Lakes Basin area that have teste...From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone
...d once lived on the bones of a dead whale some 1.8 miles (3,000 meters) below sea level in a region of the Pacific Ocean called Monterey Canyon, roughly 25 miles off the coast of Monterey, Calif. All of the specimens currently in Daly's collection came from this...Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem
...gae. The Shoals Marine Laboratory, located seven miles off the coast of Portsmouth on Appledore Island and operated jointly by UNH and Cornell University, provided the ideal setting for such an experiment. While C. lingua infects approximately 10 percent of L. littorea living on the mainland, approximate...Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures
...led white syndrome in 48 reefs along more than 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Australia's coastline. The colorful coral colonies that attract visitors to the Great Barrier Reef live atop a limestone scaffolding built from the calcium carbonate secretions of each tiny coral, or polyp. While polyps provid...Healthy reefs hit hardest by warmer temperatures
...led white syndrome in 48 reefs along more than 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Australias coastline for six years. While higher temperatures drove the disease outbreaks, the team also discovered a strong connection between white syndrome and coral cover, a measure of reef health. The highest-cover reefs, w...Gene mutation linked to increased athletic performance in whippets
...eed and have been clocked at speeds approaching 40 miles per hour over a 200-yard racing course. Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have now discovered a genetic mutation that helps to explain why some whippets run even faste...An ancient bathtub ring of mammoth fossils
...tire field of vision and approaching as fast as 60 miles an hour. Some fragments may have come from full skeletons churned up and redistributed by later floods, while others may actually have ice-rafted in with erratics....Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster
...f about 8,000 located in Churchill County about 60 miles east of Reno, Nev. Tungsten is naturally present in soils and rocks in Churchill County and other parts of Nevada. The metal was mined in the region around Fallon at various sites, including Churchill Butte. Tungsten, tungsten steels and tungsten ...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...can spend nearly four years traveling thousands of miles to British waters. Scientists do not know why some juvenile turtles make the journey to Northern Europe, but believe they may simply be driven by the North Atlantic current system. The eggs of Kemps ridley turtles were harvested in huge numbers and...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...an spend nearly four years travelling thousands of miles to British waters. Scientists do not know why some juvenile turtles make the journey to Northern Europe, but believe they may simply be driven by the North Atlantic current system. The eggs of Kemps ridley turtles were harvested in huge numbers and...Turtles are loyal in feeding as well as in breeding
... laying their eggs, sea turtles travel hundreds of miles to feed at exactly the same sites. The research, f...ity of Exeter. 'Marine turtles migrate hundreds of miles between breeding and foraging grounds, so it is amazing that they are able to return to exactly the ...Update on census of wrld's most endangered cat -- female Amur leopard found dead
...o the body of the leopardess on April 20 about two miles from Bamburovo village within the watershed of Alimovka River on the territory of Barsovy National Wildlife Refuge. The next day veterinarians from the Zoological Society of London found that the 77 pound mature female leopard was shot in the back ...Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number
...netrable National Park is approximately 127 square miles in size. In addition to census methodologies such as counting trails and nests (gorillas construct a nest each night), researchers used genetic analyses as well, specifically because many of the groups were clustered in the same area of the park, ...Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change
...ight affect clouds and weather across thousands of miles while interacting with the Sun's radiation and pla... newly configured plane has a range of about 6,000 miles and can cruise from just a few hundred feet above Earth's surface to over 50,000 feet. These feature...