Gorillas in the midst of extinction
...2 square miles) of mountain gorilla habitat in the southern "Mikeno" sector of Virunga National Park. Because mountain gorilla numbers had increased by close to 56 individuals over the last 10 years, the recent loss of land was a considerable step backward. In a race against time for the mountain gorillas a...US researchers uncover the science behind the breast cancer protective effect of olive oil
...influence breast cancer risk comes from studies of southern European populations, but animal research to date has thrown up inconsistent results, possibly because olive oil has been administered as a mixture of several fatty acids and other natural protections and not on its own. "To our knowledge this is ...Sardines may prevent toxic gas eruptions off the California and African coasts
...developer of satellite ocean color information for southern Africa....Racial groupings match genetic profiles, Stanford study finds
...ople who have ancestry from northern Europe versus southern Europe, for example. Risch admitted that few people in this study were of recent mixed ancestry, who might not fall into such neat genetic categories. This work could influence how medical research is carried out. Often researchers ask study particip...Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities
... Central Asia, and Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany (in southern Africa) were added because of newly available data...aja California, and a few scattered patches in the southern United States (represented by the Madrean Sky Islands, a series of about 40 mountain-tops in souther...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...sotopic data from rocks from western Australia and southern China, Turgeon and colleagues theorize that many areas of the world's oceans became oxygen-depleted and sulfidic. This made the oceans and atmosphere toxic to living organisms. The researchers' conclusion was supported by the finding of remains of mo...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
...n and to start restoring marsh land in Louisiana's southern coastal wetlands-which are losing a piece of land ...idly depleting wetlands, people that have lived in southern Louisiana can tell that over the last 30 years, large storms now come in faster and the water rises ...The effects of economic growth on interior forests of the Southeast
... the future loss of interior forest highest in the southern Appalachian piedmont of North and South Carolina, ...Florida to Louisiana. "With the exception of the southern Appalachian highlands, where a quarter of the land is publicly owned, the future protection of biodi...New species of coral discovered off southern California
...new species of black coral has been discovered off southern California, including around the Channel Islands, ...st of Los Angeles. Many of the deepwater reefs in southern California harbor remarkably healthy communities of corals, sponges, and other large invertebrates,"...New DNA studies verify existence of three right whale species
...mples from individual North Atlantic right whales, southern right whales, and North Pacific right whales. The study's lead author Carl Gaines, identified diagnostic nucleotide characters in the nuclear DNA for each of the three right whale species, adding to number of diagnostic mitochondrial DNA markers alr......how the plant communities in the Ahwar wetlands of southern Iraq changed under Saddam Hussein's rule. Dr. Al-H...'s essentially what has happened to the marshes in southern Iraq." The biologist, whose work is supported by Science and Engineering Research Canada (NSERC), wi...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
...re and the economic stability of large portions of southern Iraq are dependent on the success of this restoration effort," the report continued. The Marsh Arabs had been persecuted by Saddam. In an interview, Richardson added: "I think the main outcome of this early research is to show that the marshes have m...New dinosaur raptor found; First in Southern Hemisphere
...nosaur from fossils found in Patagonia -- the very southern tip of South America. It is the first raptor ever found in the Southern Hemisphere, but compared to other raptors, Neuquenraptor argentinus wasnt much of a standout. It was only of average height and weight for its kind, measured six feet from head t...Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?
...e polar bear Nanuk is having to make room for its southern cousin. The evidence of the barren ground grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) was discovered on Melville Island, an uninhabited part of the western Arctic archipelago 1,500 kilometres due north of Yellowknife, and 1,000 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle...Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation
...assessment of contemporary mangrove assemblages in southern Sri Lanka, changing water runoff patterns, and archival material from the Dutch East-India company, the researchers show that over the past few decades contemporary irrigation projects have abused the long-standing Sri Lankan tradition of freshwater ...Butterfly migration could be largest known
...ar, however, exceptionally high winter rainfall in southern California has created a bumper crop of plants for...ley, and the current generation will fly as far as southern Oregon. Their offspring will fly on to reach British Columbia by summer, before heading south again ...Currents could disrupt ocean food chain
... Conveyer current, which drags warm water from the southern tropics into the North Atlantic and warms Europe, ...Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Ocean and the southern Atlantic are pulled northward where they are cooled by the atmosphere in the North Atlantic. As the ...Slime-mold beetles named for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld
... says that Agathidium bushi so far is known from southern Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia; Agathidium rumsfeldi is known from Oaxaca and Hidalgo in Mexico; and Agathidium cheneyi is known from Chiapas, Mexico....To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
...ot off their neck." "A great deal of habitat from southern British Columbia to California is no longer accessible to salmon or has been altered to their detriment," he writes in the conclusion of his book published by University of Washington Press. "However, if we write salmon off as incapable of recovery a...... of more than 3,000 archaeological features on the southern flank of Haleakala Volcano in Maui, Hawaii, a wedge-shaped area called Kahikinui. "Hawaii offers an exemplary opportunity to investigate the environmental constraints on human settlement patterns in an intensive agrarian economy, because of both it...