Overfishing great sharks wiped out North Carolina bay scallop fishery
...ern U.S. coast and found that their original study underestimated the declines: scalloped hammerhead and tiger sharks may have declined by more than 97 percent; bull, dusky and smooth hammerhead sharks by more than 99 percent. "The extent of the declines shouldnt be a surprise considering how heavily large shark...Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
... research team has found that their original study underestimated the extent of the declines: scalloped hammerhead and tiger sharks may have declined by more than 97 percent; bull, dusky, and smooth hammerhead sharks by more than 99 percent. "Large sharks have been functionally eliminated from the east coast of...TXNIP -- regulator of glucose homeostasis and potential diabetes drug target and more
... Protein energy malnutrition is a critical, yet underestimated factor in susceptibility to infection, including the big three infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, say researchers in a review article in PLoS Medicine. The researchers, Ulrich Schaible (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med...Invertebrate immune systems are anything but simple, conference finds
...tems are more elaborate than we expected. We have underestimated the complexity of invertebrate immunity, says Dr. Paul Schmid-Hempel, an evolutionary ecologist at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. By studying the immune systems of fruit flies, mosquitoes and other invertebrates (including bed bugs, moths, crustacea...Northern forests less effective than tropical forests in reducing global warming
...r models. They found that the models significantly underestimated the airborne concentrations of carbon dioxide in northern latitudes, especially in the summertime when plants take in more carbon. The aircraft samples show that northern forests take up only 1.5 billion tons of carbon a year, which is almost 1 bil...Scientists close in on missing carbon sink
...ntists found that most of the models significantly underestimated the airborne concentrations of carbon dioxide in northern latitudes, especially in the summer, when plants take in more carbon. The aircraft samples show that northern forests absorb only 1.5 billion tons of carbon a year, which is almost 1 billion t...Universal flu vaccine being tested on humans
...e influenza virus. Flu is probably one of the most underestimated diseases: it is highly contagious and causes people to feel deathly ill. An average of 5% of the worlds population is annually infected with this virus. This leads to 3 to 5 million hospitalizations and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year. In Belgium,...New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...systems. "Given the very large and likely still underestimated role of tropical deforestation in causing climate change, these forest-rich countries should be at the forefront of worldwide efforts to sequester carbon, rather than being left out entirely, said CI President Russell A. Mittermeier, an author of th...