How to avoid severe climate change discussed at CO2 conference
...be at risk of melting, which would cause a rise in sea level potentially over 230 feet (70 meters) over several thousand years. In addition to the effects from temperature increases, Caldeira discusses how the chemistry of the oceans would be altered. Carbon dioxide dissolves in water to produce carboni...Insight into our sight: A new view on the evolution of the eye lens
...rtebrates' nearest invertebrate relatives, such as sea squirts, have only simple eyes that detect light b...in family, known as the ?-crystallins. Focusing on sea squirts, invertebrate cousins of the vertebrate lineage, the researchers found that these creatures ......dels to explore low, medium, and high increases in sea levels for Galveston Island, Feagin and colleagues...that the combination of human-created barriers and sea level rise trapped plants in a small zone, altering the plant population as well as the dune structu...NASA technology monitors wildlife habitats from the air
...agricultural land, development, timber harvesting, sea level rise and over-hunting have all contributed to the decline in DFS populations. In order to protect the DFS habitat, biologists rely on up-to-date information to identify habitats where food and potential nest locations are plentiful. "In the fu...Coming to the Arctic near you: The longer, hotter summer
...ange is usually viewed as caused by the retreat of sea ice, which reduces high-latitude albedo a measure...mer warming is more pronounced over land than over sea ice, and atmosphere and sea-ice observations can't explain this," said Terry Chapin, professor of ec...Lands surface change on Alaska tundra creating longer, warmer summers in Arctic
...ospheric circulation patterns or to a reduction in sea ice in the summer or to an increase in cloud cover. The observed summer temperature increases are likely related to a global warming trend that has led to a longer snow-free season and an increase in the extent of woody vegetation. Both of these cha...Transmission of tuberculosis is linked to historical patterns of human migration
...he 1200's, and into South Africa, possibly through sea trade contacts with Indonesia or China during the last 300 years. "The population structure of M. tuberculosis appears to have been shaped by the demographic history of its human carrier," explains Mokrousov, "but this is the opposite of what Willi...Study in Royal Society journal on first observation of giant squid in the wild
...Dr JC Thomason All immersed hard substrata in the sea face suffer fouling from micro-organisms, algal spores and planktonic larvae of sessile invertebrates. This is harmful to living organisms and marine organisms have evolved defence mechanisms to prevent fouling occurring. This study investigated pote...Secrets of the deep may hold key to life on other planets
...al vents - incredibly hot environments in the deep sea - and are unique because they depend on bacteria living inside them for their own survival. These bacteria take their energy from hydrogen sulphide in the vent fluid. "They're among the fastest growing animals on the planet a full community can grow...Preserving a 460 year old wreck
...h in 1545. In 1982 the hull was recovered from the sea and is currently undergoing a conservation process. The first author of the publication, Magnus Sandstrm, and his colleagues showed recently that the accumulation of sulphur within shipwrecks preserved in seawater is common by studying the Swedish wa......tween the melting of the polar ice and the rise in sea levels. On this occasion, ESA will organise a launch event at ESA/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, from 15:30 to 20:00. A live televised transmission of the launch will bring images from Plesetsk and mission control at ESA/ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, to b...Climate change more rapid than ever
...e end of the century. Because of this warming, the sea level could rise on average by as many as 30 centi...ientists expect that under certain conditions, the sea ice in the arctic will completely melt. In Europe, summers will be drier and warmer, and this will a...Flawed studies assess dredge-and-fill programs to protect coastlines
... a common method of combating shoreline erosion as sea level rises and major storms become more common. S...egrade other beach habitats, depressing nesting in sea turtles and reducing the densities of prey for shorebirds, fishes, and crabs. In the October 2005 is...Leading lampreys to slaughter: Pheromone for scourge of Great Lakes identified
... it was the Pied Piper's tune. For the destructive sea lamprey of the Great Lakes, it's a chemical attrac...so it could be synthesized and used to control the sea lamprey, which laid waste to Great Lakes fisheries of lake trout and other species in the mid-20th c...Health of coral reefs detected from orbit
...d coastal protection. Coral bleaching is linked to sea temperatures above normal summer maxima and to sol...er concludes. "However satellite sensors measuring sea surface temperature such as Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) can be applie...MERIS/AATSR Workshop looks at twin sensors with many uses
...R's main task is to maintain a long-term record of sea surface temperature (SST) commenced by predecessor...r this combination of data. Ocean AATSR records sea surface temperature with an accuracy of less than 0.3 K, and Prof. Llewellyn-Jones emphasised the va...Joslin study sheds light on birth defect cause in pregnant women with diabetes
...tead of 20 percent oxygen contained in room air at sea level) had the same effect as high glucose. In fact, embryos from pregnant mice with high blood glucose levels, or oxygen-restricted mice, had five-fold decreases in Pax3 expression and eight-fold increases in a severe type of birth defect called ne...NSF, NIH award Ecology of Infectious Diseases grants
...ted from the land-based domestic cat to threatened sea otters the prevalence of microparasites in cats and rats in an urban environment seasonal parasite transmission in mice and a human skin disease called Buruli ulcer, a serious disease throughout the tropics that may result from human changes to th...Ecologists spawn new use for PIT tags
...ck migrating fish. But rather than swimming out to sea implanted in young steelhead and salmon, thousands of passive integrated transponder, or PIT, tags were added to a clay simulant and then whipped around in tests of air sparger and pulse jet mixer equipment in large test tanks and scaled prototypes. ...... ability to extract useful auditory streams from a sea of distracters."...