USGS featured at AAAS - Nation's largest science meeting
... diminishing glaciers could open new corridors for trade and cultural exchange and forge new alliances in the region, or open transit routes for militants and for military action. This symposium includes USGS scientist Jeff Kargel, who will discuss Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, a USGS/NASA funde...Report addresses safety problem in preharvest stage of food production
...veillance, detection methods, risk assessment, and trade issues as the areas that should be emphasized to ensure safety during all stages of food production. "We need to take into account the risks that pose the biggest threats to the greatest number of people, which include pathogenic viruses in the prod...New health policy challenges extend beyond borders
...ine questions such as the following: How do free trade agreements affect national health policies in both rich and poor countries? What will happen if the health care providers resolve the growing nursing shortage in the US by recruiting from the world's poorest counties? What world governance structures...The simple truth: Animal development not as complicated as it seems
...on their sequences of cell divisions, known in the trade as cell lineages. They compared the known cell lineages of three different nematode worms and a sea squirt with those randomly generated by a computer program. They found that the real embryos did not behave like the computer-generated ones, but in...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
...al battles. Now a new historical study of the fur trade indicates that early Europeans and Americans in th..."The company tried, but the very nature of the fur trade ultimately meant its conservation efforts couldn't succeed. It had to expand because its old beaver...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...ket, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the U.S. trade embargo forced it to develop its home-grown soluti... the capitalistic world of biotechnology, the U.S. trade embargo and the inability of Cuban scientists to enter the U.S. have been significant hurdles, the s...... stresses of habitat loss, hunting, and an illegal trade in tiger parts have spared fewer than 7,000 tigers. Of eight traditionally classified subspecies of Panthera tigris, three have gone extinct since the 1940s. In PLoS Biology , evidence is now reported for a new tiger subspecies. Conservation strat...New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting
... Conservative estimates put the regional bushmeat trade at 400,000 tons per year. Brashares noted that the...ts offers at least a short-term route to limit the trade while simultaneously enhancing local fishers' livelihoods." Other co-authors of...Reduced fish stocks linked to increased bushmeat trade, wildlife declines in W. Africa
...stocks are fuelling a multibillion-dollar bushmeat trade in West Africa. It's a trend that is threatening t...cies of mammals in parks since 1970. The bushmeat trade in Ghana is estimated conservatively at 400,000 tons per year. Species affected include several spec...Declining fish supply linked to wildlife consumption in West Africa, Science study reports
...ana can lead to regional increases in the hunting, trade and human consumption of wildlife in this West Afr... Science study links escalations in the bushmeat trade to declines in fish supply and suggests that overfishing in the region will further complicate biodi...Mystery unwrapped: Texas A&M team uncovers mummy secrets
...z," Kennicutt adds. "That means they had trade routes somewhat similar to what we have today. Th...ansporting tar to different areas around Egypt, so trade routes may be older than we had thought." Kennicutt says much more could be learned from s...Effort to control trade in great white sharks gets teeth from international community
...a proposal to improve management and monitoring of trade in jaws, teeth and fins from the world's largest p...ark on Appendix II--which will provide key data on trade and allow better management of the species--was approved by a wide margin, with 87 in favor of listi......and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade and improve the quality of life. The 32 awards went to: 3DGeo Development (Santa Clara, Calif.) Automated Wave-Equation Imaging for Oil and Gas ExplorationDevelop and demonstrate a next-generation seismic imaging technology that includes an autom...