Nation's six most threatened national wildlife refuges named in 2005 State of the System Report
...ident 15 years earlier. Desert NWR (Nevada): The southern boundary of the refuge is about a half-mile from the northern boundary of metropolitan Las Vegas, the third fastest-growing U.S. city. The city's demand for water has led to calls for drilling wells and extracting scarce water from within this fragil...Locusts' built-in 'surface analysis' ability directs them to fly overland
...er areas of Jordan, as well as straight north over southern Israel. This observation led to examination by scientists of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat to examine how the locusts were able to ...Illegal destruction of coral reefs worsened impact of tsunami
...an hour, having been channeled and bent around the southern tip of the island, and that another wave struck around two hours later, having bounced back after hitting India or the Maldives. They say that existing computer models cannot adequately explain or predict the wave amplitudes in southwest Sri Lanka, l...Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
... Jamu, the WorldFish Center's program director for southern Africa, adding that HIV and AIDS affected families in Malawi, including many headed by widows and orphans, have tried this approach with impressive results. "Their nutrition has improved because they are eating fish and they are using the income from...Sandia researchers to study techniques for arsenic removal from drinking water
... Water Consumers Association (MDWCA) in Anthony in southern New Mexico. The research is sponsored by the Arsenic Water Technology Partnership, a consortium of Sandia; the Awwa Research Foundation (AwwaRF); and WERC, A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development. U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici,...Survey discovers potential threat to Maine's fishing
...arch for invasive species in Maine to Casco Bay in southern Maine, I became very concerned that important bays farther north, such as Cobscook Bay, weren't included in this survey," said Seeley, whose long-term research has focused on predator-prey interactions in the Cobscook Bay ecosystem. So she went to Th...Displaced songbirds navigate in the high Arctic
...overing a few thousand kilometers to winter in the southern United States. In the study, young and adult white-crowned sparrows were captured with mistnets near Inuvik, NW Territories, Canada, during mid-July to mid-August--the end of the breeding period and shortly before migration--and transported by a Cana......o three species North Atlantic, North Pacific and southern ocean right whales 5 million to 6 million years a...e they could not tolerate the warm waters. One southern right whale crossed the equator 1 million to 2 million years ago, leaving evidence of the trip when ...Marine researcher wins prestigious chemistry prize
...itute in the Netherlands and it is situated on the southern tip of the Wadden Sea island of Texel. Since 2003 Sinninghe has also been professor of molecular palaeontology at Utrecht University. In 2004 he was awarded a Spinoza prize by NWO, and in May 2005 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy o...Southern Appalachian landscapes: Preserving our heritage
The natural and historical landscapes of the southern Appalachians offer cherished beauty and valued con...nd riparian areas--is an imperative for preserving southern Appalachian heritage. The 2005 SAMAB Conference will bring together community members; local, state...Study in Royal Society journal on possiblity of human organ regeneration
...n of European aurochsen than to modern breeds from southern Europe. This indicates that early European farmers used local wild aurochsen in breeding. For instance, crosses may have been deliberately arranged to improve the breeding stock. Alternatively, during times without close cattle control, the possibili...Vineyard weeds found to host Pierce's disease of grapes
... previously untested plant species associated with southern San Joaquin Valley vineyards, and compare survival of the infections in selected field and greenhouse-grown plants," said Christina Wistrom, staff research associate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of Cal...Duke scientists explain gaps in nutrient availability within North Atlantic
...warm current that bisects the Atlantic between the southern U.S. and northern Europe -- and the Tropic of Cancer. This gyre is also the location of the Sargasso Sea. In a paper in the Sept. 29, 2005, issue of the journal Nature, graduate student Jaime Palter and professors Susan Lozier and Richard Barber show...Health of coral reefs detected from orbit
...MERIS." The team studied Heron Island reef at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, site of a University of Queensland research station. Validating MERIS Full Resolution mode results, they found that observed changes in live coral cover were correlated to an existing bleaching event. Theoretical studi...Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes
...for the first time demonstrated a single origin in southern Peru for the cultivated potato. The scientists ana...ve identified a single origin from a broad area of southern Peru," says Spooner, who is also a UW-Madison professor of horticulture. "The multiple-origins theo...Newly discovered birdlike dinosaur is oldest raptor ever found in South America
...ut also suggests that dromaeosaurs on northern and southern continents took different evolutionary routes afte...e, drifted to the north; Gondwana, composed of the southern hemisphere continents plus India, drifted to the south. Until recently, dromaeosaurs (swift-running...Oil spills and climate change double the mortality rate of British seabirds
...findings show that highly publicised oil spills in southern Europe, such as the Prestige oil tanker disaster off the coast of Galicia, Spain, in November 2002, have far-reaching consequences on seabirds breeding far from the scene of the initial pollution. The study has also found that consistently high valu...Picky female frogs drive evolution of new species in less than 8,000 years
...parate frog lineages developed in the northern and southern parts of the species' coastal range - only to be r...kin and his colleagues found that the northern and southern calls of the male frog, which are what females pay attention to in the mating game, had become diffe...Oncology, cancer genomics research on agenda for UH grad
..., Oct. 28, 2005 When Mohamad Halawi left war-torn southern Lebanon a few years ago, he had virtually no resources but unlimited optimism. Since then, this University of Houston graduate's hard work and intelligence have paid off with an NIH fellowship, more than a quarter of a million dollars in scholarship...California's oak woodlands face a new threat: Climate change
...em in the future. "Suitable habitat is lost in the southern part of the state, and about a third of the new potential habitat is in areas where blue oaks do not currently grow. Most ecologists would not be comfortable assuming that the oaks will be able to get to those new areas," Kueppers said. Lisa Sloan, p...