American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...al report, A New Vision at Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward be...Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
... and should prove valuable to Saudi environmental resource managers. The proposed coral reef systems res...eries policies, such a model provides support for resource managers. The proposed coastal hydrography and circulation project will establish a suite of obse...Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...ember print issue). "We have serious environmental resource problems of water, land and energy, and these are now coming to bear on food production, malnutrition and the incidence of diseases," said Pimentel. Of the world population of about 6.5 billion, 57 percent is malnourished, compared with 20 percent of...Which came first, the moth or the cactus?
...linates flowers for the purpose of assuring a food resource for its offspring. "Mutualistic relationships like this present a problem for ecological theory," said Rice University ecologist Nat Holland, who co-discovered the senita moth-senita cactus mutualism in 1995 and has studied it ever since. The pro...Rain forest protection works in Peru
...t placed 31% of the managed forests into permanent resource production. By 2005, a region about the size of Honduras (about 40,000 sq. miles)was put into long-term commercial timber production. In recent years, the rain forests have been experiencing increased human impacts, as they have in neighboring Amazon...Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing more rapidly than expected
...ave significant implications for policy makers and resource managers searching for ways to reverse coral loss. We can do a far better job of developing technologies and implementing smart policies that will offset climate change, Bruno said. We can also work on mitigating the effects of other stressors to cor...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...al report, A New Vision at Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward be...Space-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
...akers with the necessary tools for effective water resource management. As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESAs Data User Element, data from ESAs multispectral MERIS sensor aboard Envisat was used to create maps depicting existing water resources...National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
...ta will improve ecological forecasting to optimize resource management and provide early warning of biological natural hazards. In addition to the presentations at the ESA/SER special session, leading NEON scientists will host a Graduate Student and Post Doc Bagels Roundtable on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, fro...Measuring nectar from eucalypts
...rests NSW. State forests provide the major honey resource for the beekeeping industry in NSW. While Forest...rest. Most importantly, nectar was not a limited resource in 2005, when the research was undertaken, as extensive flowering was recorded across the south coas...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...al report, A New Vision at Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward be...Uncovering the secrets of the deep
...ic classification by InterPro, the EBIs integrated resource for protein families, domains and functional sites, UniMES uniquely provides free access to the array of genomic information gathered from the sampling expeditions, enhanced by links to further analytical resources. Genomics holds the key to underst......est management practice (BMP) by State and Federal resource agencies for maintaining water quality, and they may be especially critical in controlling amounts of human produced nitrogen. Scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency collected data on the buffers along with nitrogen concentration in...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...al report, A New Vision at Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry and the multiple fields of science that involve chemistry. The report features a series of commentaries by chemists, including Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs, on chemistrys role in working toward be...Monkeys don't go for easy pickings
...ed, "They may also be based on value judgements of resource sites that take into consideration social as well as dietary needs and preferences. The monkeys foraging decisions may help to keep the group together."...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
...al report, A New Vision at Work, can be a valuable resource for journalists trying to keep pace with chemistry...sourcing stories on chemistry-related topics, this resource can be a treasure trove accessible at: http://oasys.acs.org/acs/233nm/news321/ . Mark You...Journalists can register now for ECCO 14 -- the European Cancer Conference
...ding ECCO 14, or using the conference website as a resource in their coverage of cancer issues. A media centre with computing, fax, photocopying and free international phone and internet connections will be available. Registration and hotel accommodation - media only ECCO 14 is open to bona fide repres...Chitin from lobster shell shows great healing and bio-stimulant properties
...h makes this compound a highly important renewable resource that can easily be found in arthropods, insects, arachnids, molluscs, fungus and algae. The fishing industry in Cuba generates great amounts of lobster waste, a pollutant rich in proteins and chitin, states Professor Carlos Andrs Peniche Covas, hea...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...rapidly becoming Australia's most critical natural resource and there is an urgent need to re-use and recycle water from domestic grey-water and industry waste," he said. Dr Martens said his work aimed to develop photocatalytic water treatment technologies to break down organic chemicals such as pesticides ......ellular level. The method shows the dynamics of resource uptake and redistribution down to the level of sub-micron nitrogen storage and cell wall formation during cell division, Weber said. The researchers used stable isotope tracers in nitrogen and carbon dioxide gases to track nitrogen and carbon fixa...