Penguins okay with human visitors for now
...llanic Penguins nest in coastal colonies along the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans of South America. The penguins in the study live in the largest and most visited colony of Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina. More than 70,000 people now visit annually....Chronic oil pollution takes toll on seabirds along South American coast
...g problem along a 4,200-mile stretch of coast from southern Brazil to northern Argentina. Existing laws are not solving the problem, said University of Washington biologist Dee Boersma, co-author of a paper detailing how the oil pollution is affecting Magellanic penguins, appearing in the February edition of ...Women pregnant with girls experience more severe asthma symptoms
...esearchers monitored 702 pregnant women throughout southern New England who were trained to assess their lung function for 10-day intervals at selected points in pregnancy. Lung function and a large number of other factors that might influence severity of the mother's asthma were recorded automatically. Asth...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press Conference Schedule
...ogram aimed at increasing our understanding of how southern elephant seals interact with their physical environment. These animals can dive to 2000 meters [7,000 feet], providing unprecedented access to these depths throughout the remote Southern Ocean. Specially developed instruments deployed on seals have p...Early California: A killing field
...ornia, Broughton grew up in rural Camarillo in the southern part of the state, "collecting butterflies, watching birds, and skinning skunks." While earning bachelor's and master's degrees at California State University, Chico, he studied bones from archaeological sites in California's Sacramento Valley and b...Early human ancestors walked on the wild side
...iety of early human ancestors found in eastern and southern Africa and compared them to samples taken from modern humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. The research led them to two significant conclusions. First, certain ancestral anklebones that were thought by some to be "half ape, half human" were found to be...CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines
...have a foothold in the Hudson Valley, Long Island, southern New York and the New England coast. Like the common milkweed, swallow-worts release lightweight seeds with featherlike tails that are dispersed by wind and passing deer. Interestingly, between two to eight plants can germinate from each seed....New biodiversity hotspots identified underground
...They suggest that that the ridge might include the southern Dinaric Mountains of southeastern Hercegovina, the western Caucasus in Georgia, the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, and Shikoku Island in Japan....High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers
...ks, and albatross in the North Pacific, as well as southern elephant seals, Antarctic fur seals, and crabeater..." he said. Similar complementarity is provided by southern elephant seals and crabeater seals in the Southern Ocean. Costa led a study of crabeater seals durin...First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest
...orth, but also occur in mountainous terrain at the southern end of their current range in the Cascades and Northern Rockies. They prey on everything from moose to mice, and often rely heavily on scavenging for food during winter. "The young female wolverine we collared weighed about 19 pounds, and was in exc...Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist
...d by European and North American fisheries. In the southern Atlantic, where the industrialization of fishing stated later, peak fish occurred in the mid-1990s. Dr. Pauly is adamant that pulling back from a global fisheries collapse one on par with the collapse of various regional fisheries, such as the Atla...MBL scientists to present research at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
...ts down to depths exceeding 200 m that scoured the southern slopes of the Bermuda pedestal. Large plumes of remobilized carbonate sediments were visible by SeaWiFS for several days following Fabian. This talk will explore the material intercepted and collected by the Oceanic Flux Program sediment traps, locat...Horseshoe crab decline threatens shorebird species
...shorebird, makes a 20,000-mile round-trip from the southern tip of Argentina to the Artic Circle one of the longest migrations of any bird. And each year from April to June, the red knot stops over in the Delaware Bay to feed on horseshoe crab eggs resulting from the largest spawning of horseshoe crabs found......ocation, which, again, revealed less phosphorus at southern sites and more to the north. These gradients wer...ssed at most if not all Florida reefs. In the more southern areas, the phosphorus-stripping influence of sediments has kept the phosphorus level from going so h...Surprising genetic differences id-ed in southern house mosquito
PHILADELPHIA -- The southern house mosquito, found everywhere in the tropics an...a and her team identified different strains of the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus). Until now, researchers were unaware that this one species o...UMaine researcher puts new date on early agriculture
...ence of cultivated corn in the Cotahuasi Valley of southern Peru that dates back to nearly 4,000 years before the present, suggesting that corn was an important crop in that region more than 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. "Smithsonian researcher Linda Perry's analysis of starch grains extracted ...Human impacts on natural systems is topic of National Science Foundation forum
...: land use history and patterns of biodiversity in southern Appalachian forests; climate warming and threshold changes in Arctic and boreal ecosystems; human impacts on land cover change in arid lands; ecosystem responses to hydrologic change in the Everglades; and combining archaeology and ecology in desert ...Oxford biologists explore ability for some females to conceive during pregnancy
...on, from large, multi-male, multi-female groups in southern England to small group and paired coexistence. All other species of badgers are primarily solitary....Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center receives funding for novel breast cancer and obesity studies
... a goal to recruit nearly 100,000 residents of the southern United States, age 40 to 79, approximately 70 percent of whom will be African-American, to try to explain disparities in cancer and care and prevent the disease.......inary pathologist Dr. Julie White journeyed to the southern coast of El Salvador in January to help determine ... algal blooms came in November along El Salvador's southern coast, followed by reports of humans becoming sick. This was followed by the closure of shellfish be...