Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...casting program is being used to warn thousands of residents in selected flood-prone regions. The forecasting s...ges rivers, and then expanding to reach additional residents in coming years. It predicted the current floods a few days in advance, alerting a network of volunt...Chickadee, nutchatch presence in conifers increases tree growth, says CU-Boulder study
...umped warbler. All but the warbler are year-round residents of ponderosa pine forests in Colorado. "More than anything, this study underscores the importance of preserving the ecological communities in the forest, and not just the trees," Mooney said. ...Study finds Western-style 'meat-sweet' diet increases risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
...d from the Shanghai Resident Registry of permanent residents in urban Shanghai. Through in-person interviews with the Shanghai study participants and residents of Shanghai, researchers established the existence of two primary dietary patterns ameat-sweet diet......exico, what were the radiation exposures to nearby residents whom the government did not realize were there" O...accounting of the total radiation doses that local residents received from the explosion. As a result of the nuclear test, people in nearby areas were exposed t...Satellite images reveal link between urban growth and changing rainfall patterns
...bor. These findings mirrored statements by local residents in 2001, when Seto and her co-workers interviewed one-third of the households living and farming within the boundaries of both reserves. The researchers were told that aquaculture had been ongoing in the region since the early 1980s. These results ...Military bases can benefit by addressing sprawl issues and biodiversity
...roximity of this growth can prompt complaints from residents and lead to constraints on testing and training op...ns, as well as educating military staff and nearby residents about the benefits of buffering. The Defense Department also needs to work more with other feder...The mouflons of the Kerguelen archipelago
...n. In 1957, the local authorities decided to offer residents the opportunity to hunt mouflons (a type of wild sheep). A pair of Corsican mouflons was imported from the Vincennes Zoo in Paris. Initially, the mouflon population grew exponentially, and then, from the early 1980s, it fluctuated between 300 and 700...Yale journal examines the global impact of cities
...e gases whose impact is global. More subtly, urban residents stimulate resource extraction and manufacturingwith all the attendant environmental pressures beyond the city boundaries. The topics in the special issue, Industrial Ecology and the Global Impact of Cities , range from the prospects for addressin...Satellite images show destroyed and threatened villages in Darfur
...ttlement west of Harare and relocated thousands of residents as part of a political campaign against opponents. For the Eyes on Darfur project, Amnesty International researchers provide Bromley with the names of villages of interest, gathered from media reports and other sources. Geospatial coordinates f...Genome Canada, Gnome Qubec and Universit de Montral launch P3G Consortium and CARTaGENE Project
...bank is seeking the participation of 20 000 Quebec residents aged 40 to 69. The CARTaGENE data will provide better insight into how genes interact and how the environment influences their interaction. "As a leader in population genetics, CARTaGENE is one of the drivers of P3G," said Dr. Laberge. "This infrastr...Tropical birds have slow pace of life compared to northern species, study finds
...ll used less energy than birds that were permanent residents in Ohio. "These birds have a tropical lifestyle, even though they come up north to breed, and that tropical lifestyle is consistent with a reduced metabolic rate," Williams said. In another experiment, the researchers tested peak metabolic rate (...Montana State University researchers to compare Montana, Japanese copper mines
...te students will compare howMontanans and Japanese residents dealt with the technology, science andpollution associated with two huge copper mines that existed in the late1800s and early 1900s. One mine was at Butte/Anaconda, the other atAshio, Japan. The mines existed in different cultures, environments and...Prehistoric remains reveal a drastic shift in northern fur seal ecology
...hat prehistoric northern fur seals were year-round residents in California, and not visitors from northern waters. Of the 14 species in the family of eared seals, which includes sea lions and fur seals, only northern and Antarctic fur seals wean their pups at four months in order to leave their breeding colo...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
... 20th century forever altered the sounds that U.S. residents heard and their ways of listening. Modern acoustical inventions such as sound meters, microphones, and reverberation equations brought about a new level of clarity and similarity in the acoustical environments of disparate locations from Boston conce...Parasites' impact goes beyond host to affect ecosystem
...tial effects that can trickle down to affect other residents of the ecosystem." Byers and Woods study signals an increasing appreciation for parasites in ecological studies. "Parasitism is the most common lifestyle out there," says Byers. "Its playing a role in larger ecosystems."...Drylands are not the same as badlands
...he irreversible damage of desertification if local residents and managers at all levels would follow basic sustainability principles, according to a panel of experts writing in the May 11 issue of the journal Science. The study makes a point of introducing hope rather than the usual gloom, said James Reynol...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...to medical care combine to make impoverished urban residents vulnerable to asthma," he says. Students, a mix of undergrads and grads, have been studying issues of disease ecology this semester in Mitman's class on the history of environment and health. "We have been exploring the history of disease in shap...Novel system developed to turn data into real-time, interactive 3-D images
... a presence in Northeast Ohio, and hopes to employ residents of the region in the further development and production of the technology....Urban sediments after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita contained high levels of contaminants
...nt of conditions can protect emergency workers and residents from potential illnesses that could result from exposure." The scientists--funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and affiliated with the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and other institution......nt of conditions can protect emergency workers and residents from potential illnesses that could result from exposure. The 2005 events were characterized by an unusually high volume and long duration of human exposure. The most contaminated area tested near the Superdome contained high levels of sewage patho...