Plastic extraction disks make it easier to test levels of atrazine in field crops
...s easier, Dr. Scott Senseman and a group of fellow southern region scientists are trying to determine if air temperature impacts samples on the plastic disks during transit. "We're trying to determine if variations in heat cause differences in chemical stability," said Senseman, an Experiment Station scienti...Scripps scientists describe protein used by bacteria and cancer cells to resist drugs
...hs in Central America, South Asia, and central and southern Africa. Treating multiple drug-resistant bacterial infections can be a hundred times more expensive than treating normal infections, and the WHO estimates the total cost of treating all hospital-borne antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is aro...Alien woodwasp, threat to US pine trees, found in N.Y.
...een remarkably effective in other countries in the southern hemisphere where the woodwasp has been accidentally introduced, he says. Related World Wide Web sites: E. Richard Hoebeke: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Hoebeke/ -30-...Scientists map the world for nature conservation
...hich floristic knowledge is very poor, we find the southern Amazon basin and North Colombia, which are two of the world's most biodiverse areas. "There is also little known about the biodiversity that exists in large parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the north of China and, surprisingly, even Japan," adds...To stop evolution: New way of fighting antibiotic resistance demonstrated by Scripps scientists
...hs in Central America, South Asia, and central and southern Africa. Treating multiple drug-resistant bacterial infections can be a hundred times more expensive than treating normal infections, and the WHO estimates the total cost of treating all hospital-borne antibiotic resistant bacterial ...Lactose intolerance linked to ancestral environment
...can and Eurasian populations in 39 countries, from southern Africa to northern Greenland. Their findings will be published in a forthcoming issue of Evolution and Human Behavior. On average, Sherman and Bloom found that 61 percent of people studied were lactose intolerant, with a range of 2 percent in Denmar...Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium
...ble for fouling lakes. In rich farming areas, like southern Wisconsin, the routine application of chemical fertilizers and phosphorus-laden manure, has resulted in the gradual accumulation of phosphorus in the soil, which, ultimately, has nowhere to go but into the streams, lakes and rivers of the watershed w...Rare chalk grassland takes 50 years to recover from military use
...de Salisbury Plain, the rolling chalk downlands of southern England, much of which enjoy statutory protection, provide recreational resources for walking, horse riding and cycling. These activities cannot take place without some localised habitat disturbance, but can be managed more effectively if the ecosyst...Assessing the Amazon River's sensitivity to deforestation
...forestation in the Amazon, most in the eastern and southern portion of the basin. By using a combination of numerical models and data from several disciplines to assess the possible impacts of future human-induced land cover and land use change, researchers are investigating the causes of changes to stream hy...The Academy of Natural Sciences & team discover new catfish species
...ve from the fish's habitat in the Lacantn river of southern Chiapas state in Mexico. The discovery was described in Zootaxa, an online scientific journal. Lundberg, the Academy's Curator of Ichthyology, said only about 30 of the fish have been found since the 1990s and only one specimen was collected in a re...Study in Royal Society journal on holly as an indicator of climate change
...rof. MT. Sykes (rspb.2005.3119) A field survey in southern Scandinavia and north-eastern Germany revealed new occurrences of holly, the only evergreen broad-leaved lower tree species native to central and western Europe, beyond its former northern range margin. This range expansion is in concert with the gra...New partnership to clear landmines for African elephants
...ge elephant herds to resume their normal spread in southern Africa, Roots of Peace (RoP) and Conservation International (CI) announced today. The U.S.-based non-profit organizations are partners in a project to remove landmines sown during Angola's 26-year civil war from critical access corridors used by elep...Endangered North Atlantic right whale study says population in crisis
...ps and entanglement in fishing gear. In contrast, southern right whales, Eubalaena australis, are thriving, with a population estimated at more than 10,000 animals and growing at more than seven percent each year. According to the recent study, led by Scott Kraus of the New England Aquarium, 50 right whales ...Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath
... data from a region of active deforestation in the southern Amazon already shows that the carbon leaving rivers has an identifiable isotopic signature of pasture grasses. "You're changing the land use, changing vegetation and other conditions. In terms of what's being respired, the system is responding fairl...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
... ceaseless winds that scream across Earth's barren southern latitudes, broken by no high lands. Deadly to ...ng, the most successful and numerous animal in the southern sea. They form the base of the food web. As well, the team uncovered a sponge with a calcium-ba...Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths
...several small tree sloths whose range extends from southern Mexico to southern Brazil, he said. Such an experiment might be similar to the one that involved restoring bison, once ...Spanish forest fire aftermath surveyed by Envisat
...in's Castilla y Leon Region and the ntente area of southern France. Risk-EOS is taking place as part of the GMES Services Element (GSE), a suite of Earth Observation services being developed as part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) joint endeavour between ESA and the European Comm...Earth from Space: unique Arctic landscape surveyed by Proba
...ene Era. Samoylov Island is located in the central southern part of the Lena Delta, close to the Delta apex. Covering an area of 1200 hectares, it is representative of the active and the Holocene part of the Delta, estimated to back about 7000 years. Various geomorphological levels can be distinguished in th...Genetically modified maize not found in southern Mexico
...) corn has not yet spread to native maize crops in southern Mexico. After analyzing tens of thousands of seeds...rted finding four cobs of GM maize in Oaxaca , the southern Mexican state where Snow and her colleagues conducted their work. And despite the government's ban o......usy collecting data on the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq. Formerly the largest wetland in Southwest A...on, "The role of hydrology in marsh restoration in southern Iraq," will discuss a program designed to help manage Iraq's water resources. In a related talk, "H...